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Family Cancer History One Reason Fridley High Student Won't Tan for Prom

Besides, orange tans don't look natural, FHS junior Ann Hinrichs told MSNBC.com.

Correction noted below. Many high school students try to get a tan before their proms, but not high school junior Ann Hinrichs, according to MSNBC.com.*

Hinrichs told MSNBC.com she is happy about how her natural skin color looks with the turquoise prom dress she plans to wear: "One night shouldn't completely change the way I look."

The article identifies Hinrichs as a senior attending a high school in Fridley and cites rising melanoma rates as well as tanning industry denials of any cancer link. Hinrichs told MSNBC.com of cancer in her family—a concern that has flared up in Fridley recently:

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People get pressured into tanning because so many teens do it, Ann Hinrichs, a junior at a high school in Fridley, Minn., told msnbc.com. She says she's never tanned indoors because skin cancer runs in her family, and added that she doesn't understand the appeal. Some girls, she said, just end up looking orange. 

"It just doesn't look natural," Hinrichs said.

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* Correction: An earlier version of this post identified Hinrich's school as . That wasn't correct, according to a family member.


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