An Essex girl friend of The Only Way Is Essex sisters Sam and Billie Faiers is suffering from skin cancer after using sun beds three times a week.
Jerri Turko, who is best friends with the TOWIE pair, started using sunbeds when she was 15-years-old and would even increase their potency by applying tan booster creams.
The 21-year-old hairdresser, who was diagnosed with melanoma in June, has had the cancerous mole from her leg removed, but the disease had already spread to her lymph nodes.
Jerri now faces another operation next month to remove the infected lymph nodes in her groin before having to take a course of anti-cancer drugs.
In an interview with Closer magazine, Jerri said: ‘Tanning is a way of life for girls in Essex – but now I feel so stupid for risking my life.
‘When doctors told me I had cancer, I burst into tears – what a price to pay for vanity.’
She was diagnosed this summer after returning from a holiday with the Faiers sisters in Marbella.
Jerri befriended the reality TV stars Billie and Sam when she was 14-years-old, and she revealed how she was desperate to darken her skin using sunbeds, despite also going on four holidays a year to sun-drenched locations.
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