Kelly Slater

How do you keep from just getting fried?

You're wearing your sunscreen.

You know what?

If I'm somewhere tropical or it's super hot, I wear sunscreen.

But I am lucky.

I've had tan skin my whole life.

You could probably have mistaken me as being half black when I was a kid because my mom just put me in the sun.

We were in the sun all day.

And I was so darkly tanned when I was a kid, much darker than I am now.

There's a picture of me and my brother in the bathtub.

I'm like two or three and we're both naked and you can see our butts and like my butt is white and the rest of my skin is like dark, dark, dark tan.

Really?

Like I look Hawaiian or something.

Yeah.

But I just always like, I like being tan.

The more tan I am, the less I get burned.

I went to Bali a few years ago for...

three months and the day i got there my friend who's like kind of pale was tanner than me because i'd been surfing in wetsuits for the past like six or eight months before that and i was so angry there's no way you're darker than that yeah and so i just made it my my mission to get super dark again but um that's easy to do when you're surfing all that time especially in bali yeah you know but certain places the sun is just so violent you you have to be covered up yeah no matter how good your skin is but um

Yeah, I mean, I've suffered some skin damage and stuff.

I got spots on my head.