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Mother Patricia Krentcil
- In 2012, New Jersey mother Patricia Krentcil received national media attention amid accusations that she had brought her five-year-old daughter with her to a tanning salon in order for the child to receive a tan.
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Tanning dependence or tanorexia (a portmanteau of tanning and anorexia) is a syndrome where an individual appears to have a physical or psychological dependence on sunbathing or the use of ultraviolet (UV) tanning beds to darken the complexion of the skin.
ABC News on the Tanning Mum case. Doctors raised the issue of Tanorexia (tanning addiction)
May 3, 2012 · Patricia Krentcil, known as the "tanning mom," is facing up to 10 years in prison if convicted of second-degree child endangerment. Child services intervened after a nurse at daughter Anna's school noticed she had a rash and the little girl told her it was from going tanning with her mother.
Tanning addiction may not be as severe as drug addiction, but there is a lot of debate about whether to include it in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) as a true behavioral addiction. I have lived and survived through "tanorexia" and I know it to be real.
May 3, 2012 · But by appearing on television to clear her name, critics wonder if the crispy-skinned Krenticil is "tanorexic." A dermatologist writing in the New York Daily News said that "tanorexia" is a term for people who've become addicted to artificial tanning.
May 3, 2012 · Patricia Krentcil, the New Jersey mom who is accused of letting her 5-year-old daughter go in a tanning booth, is pleading not guilty to the charges, according to news reports. "My client is 150 percent innocent," Krentcil's attorney, John D. Caruso, told CBS News. "That child was never in that tanning booth."
Jan 5, 2011 · Twenty-two-year-old Ashley Jackson, her mom and indoor tanning go way back: Jackson can remember being a be-goggled 6- or 7-year-old, waiting in the room as her mom soaked up the...
