Famous People Be Fearing

Blog, People, Random, Science — February 3, 2010 at 4:08

Phobias are one of those weird things where you don’t understand how someone else could be scared of tissues or frogs but you’re fear of donuts makes complete sense to you. Well since famous people are also some of the weirdest people we all can stare and laugh at it’s no wonder they also have some of the oddest phobias. For instance Bob Thorton thinks that antique furniture is out to kill you, Christina Ricci believes house plants are listening in on her conversations, and Tyra Banks things dolphins are plotting an attack against humanity. It all makes complete sense to them and none to me, but anyone I got to go I think this bluetooth mouse is scheming to kill me in the night.

1. Billy Bob Thornton hates antiques so much he refuses to stay in a room with furniture from before 1950. This might be a rare phobia, but he’s not alone – more than 250,000 people in the U.S. alone apparently suffer from this fear of antiques. “I’ve had friends tell me that maybe I was beaten to death with an antique chair in a former life,” Thornton has mused. Hmm.

2. Of all of the things that could traumatize Alfred Hitchcock – you know, showers, birds, mama’s boys – one of the things he hated most were eggs, specifically runny ones. You know what’s weird? My mom shares Hitchcock’s birthday (not birth year, mind you) and she also loathes eggs. Even cracking one into a cake mix can make her gag, and don’t even ask her to make you over easy eggs.

3. Christina Ricci cannot stand to be around house plants, which would be known as a form of botanophobia. She finds them dirty and shudders at the idea of watering one. “If I have to touch one, after already being repulsed by the fact that there is a plant indoors, then it just freaks me out.” I guess if a guy sends her flowers after a date, there won’t be a second one. Or maybe flowers are different? Do we have any botanophobics out there that can clarify?

4. Tyra Banks won’t be swimming with Flipper’s cousin at Sea World anytime soon – she says she’s been scared of the intelligent swimmers since she was about eight years old. “I have dreams that I am in a pool and there are dolphins bumping me and I’m frightened,” she has said.

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Related Links:
The Quick 10: Weird Celebrity Phobias

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