Kerry-Ann Buckell, 35, said she’s never been a “sun-worshipper,” which made her diagnosis “hard to swallow”

• Kerry-Ann Buckell, 35, was left with a “big gaping black hole” on her nose after doctors removed skin cancer — the second time she’d been diagnosed with the disease
• The mom said she was not a “sun-worshipper,” which made her diagnosis “hard to swallow”
• The hairstylist said she checks her clients’ scalp for concerning spots, explaining, “Never did I think skin cancer would appear as a regular-looking spot”

A mom was left with a “big gaping black hole” on her nose after she was diagnosed with skin cancer— even though she’s not a “sun-worshipper” and always wore sunscreen.

Kerry-Ann Buckell, 35, thought she had a pimple on her nose, but the spot returned every time she popped it. She looked up her symptoms online, and “the words skin cancer practically jumped off the webpage,” she said, via The Daily Mail.

“I convinced myself that it was just a white-head,” Buckell, who said she wasn’t a “sun-worshipper” and always wore sunscreen, said. “I had read about people who loved being in the sun who had got skin cancer, but that wasn’t me, so it left me very confused when they confirmed my diagnosis.”

The hairstylist, who hails from the English town of East Grinstead, said she was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma, which the Cleveland Clinic describes as a “type of skin cancer that causes a lump, bump or lesion to form on the outside layer of your skin.” It is “the most common form of skin cancer and the most frequently occurring form of all cancers,” according to the Skin Cancer Foundation.

“It hadn’t spread. But the realization that I had cancer was hard to swallow,” said Buckell, whose son Albie was 10 months old at the time.

She had the growth removed — but three years later, in November 2024, she developed another concerning spot on the other side of her nose.

“As much as I tried to stay in denial, I knew what it was,” Buckell said. The second spot was removed, but as Buckell explains, “It was much bigger… I was left with a big gaping black hole on my face that made me really self-conscious.”

She shared that she took a course on skin diseases and disorders to help identify any concerning spots on her clients’ heads.

As she explains, “Never did I think skin cancer would appear as a regular-looking spot.”