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"  Harper&amp;#039;s Bazaar: How did having skin cancer change your life?  Hillary Fogelson: When I was first diagnosed, I was 25, seeing a dermatologist that I&amp;#039;d seen from high school for acne. She had always said you&amp;#039;re very fair and you should come in for a skin check. I don&amp;#039;t know why I did it, but I did and it was in those yearly exams that she saw something and said we need to biopsy this. And when she called me like a week later, I didn&amp;#039;t know what melanoma was. I knew it was skin cancer and knew it was serious because she was talking about surgery and seeing an oncologist. It happened so fast. After I had surgery, I educated myself on what it was and what I needed to do to help prevent it. It was scarier, at subsequent times later [when my melanoma returned], because I was educated. It quickly became clear that it&amp;#039;s not a one-and-done type of thing. And that&amp;#039;s typically the case with melanoma, you have to be incredibly diligent for the rest of your life, which can be very daunting. HB: What would you have done differently in terms of how you protected and took care of your skin, knowing what you know now? HF: I had a lot of sun damage when I was younger and I can&amp;#039;t change that but now I can stay half a step ahead of that. Now, it&amp;#039;s passing along to my girls that it is so important to protect your skin and start routines now. People can see sun damage and sunburns as their skin peels and then it is done. But that damage stays through your whole life. So using all that and knowing what we&amp;#039;ve done to our skin in our lifetime\u2014I try to explain that to my girls. HB: What should all readers remember when it comes to their skin and how they protect it? HF: I think the reason that it made so much sense for me to partner with Olay&amp;#039;s Best Beautiful campaign, which includes my video (and others will follow) directed by Sue Bryce, is that we both understand the best way to get people to change their behavior with sun protection is the beauty angle. If people are scared they shut off and shut down but if you can approach it in a lighthearted way you can have more impact and help them change their behavior. Also show them simple ways to do it. It&amp;#039;s not about sacrificing the way you live and look, just taking slightly different ways to do things. Yes, you have to take that extra 20 seconds to apply sunscreen in the morning (her favorite is Olay Total Effects Daily Moisturizer SPF 30 with SolaSheer Technology, $20.99, olay.com), but even when you&amp;#039;re outside and walking around just be aware of where it&amp;#039;s shady or throw a hat on. You&amp;#039;re not sacrificing how you look and ultimately this will all pay off because by the time you&amp;#039;re 40, it&amp;#039;s incredible how much younger you&amp;#039;ll look! We can have a generation of women that look really amazing. I think the focus always is just realizing it&amp;#039;s not a daunting thing. You also don&amp;#039;t have to sacrifice the things you love to do, I spend a ton of time outside! I am a jogger and we take tropical vacations, I just have to do them in a slightly different way. Pale Girl Speaks: A Year Uncovered, $12, amazon.com.       "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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