Love Island Australia 2019‘s Isabelle Green has sparked backlash online after stating that she doesn’t believe sun exposure is “harmful”.
Taking to Instagram on January 16, the Queenslander — who copped criticism en masse in 2023 for her views on transgender individuals — shared a Story of herself posing on the beach, showing off her tanned skin.
“I’m actually shook this is my natural tan [right now],” she penned, adding: “And no I don’t [believe] the sun rays are harmful, sunscreen is wayyyy [sic] more toxic.”
Isabelle later doubled down on her views by resharing an Instagram Post from 9News, which announced a “sunscreen recall”.
“My girl just shared this on her Story and it couldn’t be more relevant to my earlier post… The hypocrisy lol,” the mother-of-one captioned it.
The post dated back to a news article from April 2022 and detailed that multiple sunscreens had been recalled after they were found to contain “low levels of benzene, a chemical that can cause cancer”.
The article further explained that the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) expressed that the “quantity of benzene found in the sunscreens is considered too low to have serious health effects”.
However, several products were recalled “as a precaution” as they investigated the contaminant.
Fans call out Love Island‘s Isabelle Green for ‘misinformation’
Both Stories have since been removed from Isabelle’s Instagram Story. However, not before it was screenshotted and shared among fans in the So Dramatic! Communi-TEA Facebook group, where several onlookers called out the Love Island star for “misinformation”.
“I don’t know who this is, but as a 30-year-old that’s already had a skin cancer cut out of her forehead, I can confidently say I now wear sunscreen every single day,” one user penned.
“It’s not sunscreen that’s toxic, it’s mindsets like hers.”
Another wrote: “Unreal. This makes me so mad. My mum recently had a melanoma taken out from the back of her leg, 57 stitches later and a lot of time off work and off her feet….she was lucky her surgeon removed it all! This is such an irresponsible post!!”
“A tan is sun damage,” a third expressed. “I cannot stand these people who think a tan is cool, it’s not! It’s your skin screaming at you that it’s damaged.”
“Wow living in the skin cancer capital of the world and spreading this kind of misinformation,” another appalled user said.
Are sun rays harmful?
In short, YES!
According to Cancer Council, “exposure to UV radiation from the sun… is the major cause of skin cancer”.
In fact, Australia has one of the highest rates of skin cancer in the world, with almost 2,000 Australians dying each year from the disease.
In 2023 alone, it’s estimated that more than 18,200 people were diagnosed with melanoma.
So, yeah, there’s a reason we were all taught to slip, slop, slap back in the day!
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