A woman from Australia claims she has been diagnosed with three different types of skin cancer since 2009, and shares her “brutal” journey on TikTok.

“This is the real face of skin cancer,” Melissa Lewis, 48, declared in a viral clip as she showed off her bright red blistered skin after undergoing carbon dioxide laser photodynamic therapy.

She revealed that her eyes finally opened after being swollen – but were still a bit blurry. She put a cover over her nose so she could wear her glasses.

“Everybody just needs to protect their skin,” Lewis insisted. “A tan is not good for anyone. I wish I knew 30 years ago when we really didn’t know about sun safety.”

The mother of four recalled spending hours in the sun trying to get a tan as a child.

“Take care of yourselves, everybody,” Lewis advised in the video, which has attracted 2.7 million views since it was posted in February.

Lewis later had a update to TikTok to show how her skin is doing 10 days after the intense treatment.

It was still slightly pink, but cleaned of the skin.

“It’s been a brutal week,” she captioned the clip.

“It’s still red, but oh my God. What a difference,” Lewis exclaimed. “But guess what, it’s still there.”

She explained that “the skin cancer was still hiding behind the surface of her skin and that she still had “a lot of lesions” that needed biopsies, but treatment showed promising results.

Lewis claims she will have to undergo carbon dioxide laser photodynamic therapy once a year for the rest of her life, as it is “the only way to keep the skin cancer at bay”.

“Protect yourselves. Stay strong. Stay healthy,” she encouraged her viewers.

The Post has reached out to Lewis for comment.

The bespectacled redhead told the Daily Mail her skin cancer never manifested itself through classic symptoms like a “vague mole” – but rather as scaly skin or an uneven complexion.

“I had a melanoma, and it didn’t look like anything at all. In fact, it took two dermatologists to diagnose it. They had to look at my face under a microscope to try and find it,” she explained to the store.

She claims dermatologists found lesions on her body from 2009 to 2018; she was later diagnosed with breast cancer, which caused her to take a year off from skin cancer treatments; and she almost died of sepsis after a gynecological procedure gone wrong.

After a decade of traumatic medical conditions, it’s skin cancer that still haunts Lewis the most—which prompted her to share her journey with others online.

She said doctors discovered basal cell carcinoma on the side of her nose, shoulder and upper chest.

They also reportedly took a biopsy of a suspicious lesion on her forehead that turned out to be Bowen’s disease, an early form of skin cancer also known as squamous cell carcinoma.

Even worse, surgeons removed some melanoma from her ear, which needed to be reconstructed.

“It was a total shock because that word is synonymous with cancer – it’s the highest level because a melanoma has gone to the deepest layer of the skin and is about to invade,” she explained.

“I was very lucky because it was caught during the stage 0 phase – it hadn’t entered the bloodstream yet.”

She says the annual photodynamic therapy treatments help her maintain her health.

Daylight photodynamic therapy is a treatment that involves sunlight, a photosynthesizing agent and heavy sunscreen.

Lewis compares the procedure to “scraping away at the surface of the skin as if with sandpaper” to exfoliate it. The skin feels burnt and peels for a few days.

“It’s been a real journey, and my confidence has been shaken because your face is how you present yourself to the world,” she admitted.

She wishes she had simply taken better care of her skin and worn sunscreen as a teenager.

“Looking back now, if I could have a moment to pull my younger self aside, I’d say, ‘Listening to what you’re doing now might be fun, but you’re going to pay for it in the future. And it can cost you your life,” Lewis said.