Jana Kramer Explains Why She Doesn’t Always Use Sunscreen on Her 3 Kids

Jana Kramer is explaining why she doesn’t always put sunscreen on her kids.

The actress and singer, 41, spoke with her friend Kristen Brust on her podcast Whine Down with Jana Kramer about how Brust’s teenage kids are starting to become obsessed with tanning and are looking up the UV index. As she asks Kramer for advice on how to get her kids to wear sunscreen, Kramer admits she doesn’t always use it on her kids.

“Time out really fast. Let me just go back because I’m gonna get a lot of hate on this. I am well aware that I should have worn sunscreen as a child. I am well aware,” Kramer began. “And I know my mom put on the Coppertone Baby, whatever SPF on me. Having said that, my mother was the generation who used no sunscreen and used the baby oil, right? If my mother gave me anything more than an 8 SPF, I would be like, ‘I cannot get a tan with anything less than 8.’” 

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The mom of three says that she would routinely use the tanning oil that had 8 SPF in it and never got burned until a cast trip to Puerto Rico during her time on One Tree Hill. She explains that she started wearing sunscreen more often in her thirties since her skin had changed.

“I don’t use sunscreen on my kids unless it’s going to be for hours outside because I know they don’t burn,” Kramer says. “And there’s so much bad stuff in sunscreen that if we’re not going to be out there for more than a couple hours, listen, come at me. But I’m just not putting it on.”

“I will if we’re on the beach for hours and the reflection of all the things, like I’ll put it on his neck, his ears — the baby — but like the kids, I haven’t put on any on them because I’m like, they’re not getting burned,” she continues. “What’s worse, the burn, or the suntan lotion?”

Kramer shares daughter Jolie, 9, and son Jace, 6, with ex Mike Caussin. She is also mom to 19-month-old son Roman, whom she shares with husband Allan Russell.

Back in June, Kramer spoke with Fox News Digital about how she has taken on certain jobs in order to pay her bills and support her three kids — and shares that some of them are ones she regrets.

“I mean there’s definitely some things, some ads that I’m like, ‘Oh, I wish I could have gone back and maybe not done that ad,’ ” Kramer admitted. “But you know, you learn and you go back and you go, ‘All right, I’m not gonna do that one again.’ You know?” 

“Sometimes when you gotta pay that child support check, it’s just like, ‘Well, this is good check money. I’m gonna take this,’ ” she added.

When asked if any of her ads for sex toys — which she promoted on Instagram in 2023 — were included in her regrets, the One Tree Hill alum admitted, “Yeah,” before she broke out in laughter. 

“And I’m not gonna do it again,” she continued. “I’m like, okay, I’m good now. Like, we’re good, we’re leveling up to a different [place].”

“And more so, just like, my husband doesn’t love it, you know? The whole thing,” added Kramer.