All Episodes of My Strange Addiction
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Season 1
NaN/100 votesLoading...Sleeping with Blow Dryer; Eating Toilet Paper
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/29/2010
Thirty-one-year old Lori has been addicted to sleeping with her blow dryer since she was eight years old. Although she finds the heat and sound comforting, Lori risks the chance of burning her skin severely or worse, starting an electrical fire. Kesha has admitted to eating half a roll of toilet paper everyday. Whether in the car, at the movies, or in a restaurant, Kesha seizes every opportunity to give into her addiction.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...Extreme Bodybuilding; Thumb Sucking
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/29/2010
Lauren used to be addicted to drugs and alcohol, now she's addicted to extreme bodybuilding. She works out up to six hours a day, six days a week. 24-year-old Rhonda can't stop sucking her thumb while sniffing a scrap of her childhood blanket. The safety and comfort the thumb sucking gave her during her parents divorce, has now become an isolating social behavior she can't let go.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...Eating Cleanser; Tanning
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/5/2011
Crystal has been eating household cleanser everyday since she was twelve. Her shame, embarrassment and concern for her health have caused her to keep this a secret. 20-year-old Samantha tans up to three times a day in tanning beds, in addition to tanning outdoors slathered in vegetable oil.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...Ventriloquism; Cats
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/5/2011
When April's fiance gave her the ultimatum "it's me or the puppets" - April chose the puppets. Not only do the puppets go everywhere she goes, she practices with them 12 hours a day. Debbie is severely allergic to cats, but has over twenty of them. Despite the health problems they cause and the isolation that comes along with being the "crazy cat lady," Debbie continues to choose the cats over herself since her husband's death.
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Eats Detergent; Strongman
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/12/2011
A teen who eats detergent up to seven times a day is profiled. Also: A man is obsessed with training for strongman competitions.
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Hair Puller; Shoe Fanatic
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 1/12/2011
A shoe addict owns over 200 pairs and refers to them as her "babies." Also: a woman who with a hair-pulling problem is profiled.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...Eats Couch Cushion; Furry
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 1/19/2011
A woman insists on wearing her fur suit everywhere she goes; another woman has been eating couch cushions for 20 years.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...Married to A Doll; Picking My Scabs
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1/26/2011
A man treats his life-size doll like a wife; a woman spends hours a day picking scabs on her body.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...Can't Stop Cleaning; Love Rocks
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 2/2/2011
Cyntrelle spends up to eight hours everyday cleaning her home; Belinda excessively collects rocks.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...Eats Glass; Bleaches Skin
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 2/9/2011
Over the past four years, Josh has consumed more than 100 glasses and 250 light bulbs. As if ingesting glass wasn't dangerous enough, Josh also swallows live bullets. Candice struggles with her addiction to skin bleach to lighten her skin. Discrimination at school and teasing from friends has her convinced she is ugly.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...Make-up Addict; Obsessed With Death
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 2/9/2011
Maureen is obsessed with her make-up; Barbara prefers the company of those who have passed on.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...Laxatives; Pottery & Ashes
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/16/2011
At fifteen, Kimberly started using laxatives to lose weight and is now addicted to them; Bianca craves pottery and ashes.
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