THE HEAT IS ON: Patricia Krentcil expresses shock yesterday over dozens of tanning salons blacklisting her following her arrest for allegedly taking her child to one. (Getty Images)
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Patricia Krentcil got so tan, she’s now on a blacklist.
At least 63 local tanning salons have banned the 44-year-old mom of four — saying she’s giving the industry a bad name.
Some salons have even put wanted-style posters behind their counters alerting staffers to keep her from getting past their front doors.
Krentcil earned infamy after prosecutors in her Jersey town of Nutley charged her with child endangerment for allegedly taking her then-5-year-old to a mother-daughter tanning session.
“We don’t tan people like that,” said manager Nicole Simon of Body Works in Garfield, NJ.
“If she comes to this store, we’ll let her know we can’t tan her.
“Our customers never look like that.”
James Oliver, owner of Beach Bum Tanning — who ordered the ban in all his 53 metropolitan-area stores — said, “absolutely, we would not allow her to tan.
“It’s very hard for these people who have these compulsive addictions to stop on their own,” Oliver added. “You really have to step in and say, ‘You shouldn’t be doing this.’ ”
A poster with Krentcil’s picture is displayed at Oliver’s store in Saddle Brook, NJ. It alerts employees: “Please don’t allow her to tan here. Nicely inform her that we don’t support her actions.’’
Bloomfield, NJ’s Bodies in Heat Tanning Salon and Planet Sun Tanning’s chain of eight stores in Jersey have also put out the not-welcome mat.
Krentcil yesterday said she hadn’t heard about the bans.
“Somebody put a picture in the windows of me? My attorney will find out,” she barked.
“It’s stupid,” she said of the bans.
A manager at City Tropics Tanning Salon — where Krentcil allegedly took her daughter — said he asked her to lie low and avoid dropping by for a while.
She was last seen at the store on April 22.
“Since then, I think she might be using that lotion stuff that body builders use,” said the manager, who identified himself only as Anthony.
“It makes them look like tree bark.”
But Krentcil has not been banned from his shop — which boasts a new sign: “No Children Allowed.’’
Anthony and Krentcil have both denied that Anna, now 6, was ever at the store.
Krentcil has said the red-haired girl got sunburned while gardening on a hot day.
“My daughter went to a dermatologist to show it wasn’t from a tanning bed,” Krentcil said.
Mediterranean Tan shop manager, Monica McNulty, said she would have to consult her lawyer on whether banning Krentcil is legal. But if she gets an OK, she will.