A woman who fell asleep at the beach developed severe sun poisoning - leaving her face so swollen she looked like an "alien" and her own sister didn't recognise her. Bela Chatwin, 21, was left unrecognisable after her face swelled up severely due to sun poisoning on holiday.
Sun poisoning is a severe case of sunburn - usually a burn from ultraviolet radiation that inflames the skin. The interior design assistant accidentally fell asleep on the beach without suncream, prompting the reaction.
Doctors told her she had developed sun poisoning and it took her three weeks to recover, aided by steroid-based skin creams. Her face became so swollen that her own little sister, Aero Chatwin, then three, couldn't recognise her - and other people said she looked like "an alien".
