My skin is partly why I chose the stage name Badriya--like the moon
I grew up in a town that was at the time 99.9 percent white, but still in the summers kids would sing the theme song to Caspar the Friendly Ghost at me when I'd go to the local swimming spot. I simply do not tan; I burn, heal, and then burn again. So I was quite self conscious as a child about how pale I was, but around 16 or so I decided to embrace it (probably not coincidentally, that was around the time that I discovered Bauhaus and Siouxsie Sioux). I'd feel untrue to myself if I used any kind of tanning spray.
The one drawback to being very pale is that on film or photo, my torso tends to be one solid blur of white and loses a lot of the definition that I know is there. For photo shoots I really ought to remember to bring extra makeup for body contouring.