Married at First Sight Australia 2024‘s Lauren Dunn has opened up about her past experience with melanoma.

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Married at First Sight Australia 2024’s Lauren Dunn has opened up about her experience with melanoma. Source: Nine

The former TV bride recently told her Instagram followers she had a melanoma removed from her head when she was 10 years old.

“I was fully conscious during the operation,” she wrote alongside a photo of her scalp. “Very scary for a little child”.

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Lauren had a melanoma removed when she was 10 years old and she was “fully conscious” during the operation. Source: Instagram

The Cancer Council describes melanoma as a type of cancer that develops in the skin cells, usually in areas overexposed to the sun. It’s the third most common type of cancer diagnosed in Australia.

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