Kristin Cavallari is refusing to go viral for a video about not wearing sunscreen that she says was taken out of context.
“I don’t wear sunscreen,” the “Laguna Beach” actor said on her “Let’s Be Honest” podcast earlier this year. Lots of ridicule. She asked guest Dr. Ryan Monaghan to tell her about the health benefits of sunlight and “maybe why we don’t need sunscreen.”
During Wednesday’s episode of Dear Media’s “Breaking Beauty” podcast, host Jill Dunn asked her about the comments.
“It’s true that this conversation was about the health benefits of sunlight,” Cavallari clarified. “Sunlight is good for health. We get vitamin D from sunlight. That’s indisputable. I did say that, though. I don’t wear sunscreen, I mean it’s not part of my daily skin care routine and I never tell someone not to wear sunscreen, I just say that.
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Kristin Cavallari is refusing to go viral for a video about not wearing sunscreen that she says was taken out of context. (Phillip Faraone/Variety via Getty Images)
She said she does wear sunscreen and a hat when she goes on vacation.
“I pay attention. But, I’m a sunshine baby. I’m from California, I’m a sunshine baby. I’m in no way encouraging other people not to wear sunscreen. It’s more fair to say, ‘This is what I do, let’s Let’s talk about the health benefits of sunlight, because when you wear sunscreen, you don’t get vitamin D from the sun.
“I never tell people not to wear sunscreen, I just say what I do.”
However, the Skin Cancer Foundation says there is no evidence that wearing sunscreen causes vitamin D deficiency.
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Cavallari said she does wear sunscreen and a hat when on vacation. (Gotham/GC Photo)
Cavallari said doctors have told her in the past to wait 15 minutes before applying sunscreen “to reap the health benefits,” adding that “a lot of sunscreens” contain “junk chemicals.”
The Skin Cancer Foundation recommends applying sunscreen 30 minutes before exposure to allow the sunscreen to “bond to your skin.”
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“When I put on sunscreen, I look for zinc oxide,” she said on the podcast, adding, “I just think it’s important to have these conversations.”
Dunn joked that sunscreen might be the only thing she prefers over reality TV because she knows it’s “the first thing you can do,” adding that she takes it “very seriously” because she, too Lost some people to melanoma.
Cavallari said doctors have told her in the past to wait 15 minutes before applying sunscreen “to get the health benefits,” but the Skin Cancer Foundation recommends applying sunscreen 30 minutes before exposure so it can “synthesize with the skin.” combination”. (Photo by Raymond Hall/GC)
She suggested Cavallari could “break the internet” if she created her own brand of SPF without using chemicals she didn’t like.
“It’s hard to find good, clean sunscreen,” she says, admitting that she likes the EltaMD and Dune brands. “Nice idea. I’ll take that into consideration.”
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She joked that if she launched her own sunscreen, people would claim the viral video of her not wearing sunscreen was a PR stunt.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Cavallari’s representatives for comment.
