“I grew up in Namibia. And Africa sun — it’s just so intense. We were always outside as kids; we were never sitting inside watching TV all day. And my mom, also growing up in South Africa, just had this thing ingrained in her mind: sunblock. She said she made a lot of mistakes in her 20s. It was in the time that everybody was tanning; you’d put oils on yourself, and you’d lay out and burn. So when she had me, she was like, 'I’m going to ingrain it into my daughter to use sunblock.' As early on as I can remember, my mom was always lathering me in sunblock and I was so annoyed. But that stayed with me forever. Even when I moved away, every day, if I did nothing to my skin, I would always put sunblock on. I thank her for it because I feel like I probably would’ve had worse skin if I didn’t use as much sunblock as I do.”
