People Are Calling Out Kristin Cavallari For Her Stance On Not Wearing Sunscreen

Reality TV star Kristin Cavallari has a hot take on sunscreen that’s getting burned on social media.

The “Hills” star received backlash for saying that she doesn’t wear sunscreen after a clip of her “Let’s Be Honest” podcast went viral this week.

Dr. Andrea Suarez, a dermatologist who regularly shares skin care-related content online under the name Dr. Dray, pushed back on Cavallari’s remarks in a TikTok video posted Monday.

Suarez warned about the dangers of skin cancer while addressing claims from the podcast that suggested sunscreen may be unnecessary.

A representative for Cavallari did not immediately return HuffPost’s request for comment.

In the podcast clip, which came from a “Let’s Be Honest” episode released in January, Cavallari discussed sun exposure with a guest named Ryan Monahan, who practices functional and Eastern medicine, according to his website.

“I want to discuss the sun and sunscreen, which I know is controversial,” Cavallari told Monahan. “I don’t wear sunscreen. And anytime I do an interview I get a lot of shit when I admit that I don’t.”

She then asked Monahan to discuss the “health benefits of the sun and why we maybe don’t need sunscreen.”

“It’s a very controversial topic, which is so funny because it’s the sun,” he said. “We’ve literally spent our whole existence as humans under the sun all day until the last hundred years or so.”

He then said that many people live an “inflammatory lifestyle.”

“If you live an anti-inflammatory lifestyle, you take a lot of antioxidant supplementation and you work up your base coat in the sun, you can start to tolerate the sun instead of burning,” he said, adding that he’s previously built up enough tolerance that he could be “in the sun for the whole day without