Teh One Who Knocks
02-10-2012, 12:32 PM
By Tamara Abraham - The Daily Mail
TLC show My Strange Addiction has shown us people addicted to everything from corn starch to sleeping with hairdryers. But the new series, which starts this weekend, promises its most bizarre subjects yet.
Season three features teenager Kailyn, who admits to being hooked on eating plastic.
The 18-year-old, from Sacramento, California, believes she has eaten over 60,000 plastic goods over the past 11 years, and will even choose it over food.
http://i.imgur.com/8wL12.jpg
She is seen crunching on a variety of items in a trailer for the show, from water bottles to CD cases.
Listing some of the things she has eaten, Kailyn tells the camera: 'I have eaten 12 remotes, over 5,000 beads, over 1,000 cocktail swords, 100 forks, about ten water bottles, two pacifiers, three CD cases, about 50 hangers, about 25 plastic lids on to-go cups...'
She admits: 'Plastic is something I want and I feel like I need.'
When asked why she loves plastic so much, she explains that it is not the taste as much as the texture.
http://i.imgur.com/kWgC7.png
'It's the way it crunches and feels and it has a rough but at the same time smooth texture to it,' she says.
http://i.imgur.com/pvL2Q.jpg
The texture of a television remote control is probably one of her favourites, Kailyn reveals.
Describing how she goes about eating one, she says: 'I'll take a button off, and I'll put it on each side of my mouth, then I swallow it.'
The plastic items she snacks on most frequently, though, are cocktail swords, which she finds in the restaurant where she works.
'I'm a hostess at a restaurant and I get a lot of my plastic from there,' she explains. 'My favourite kind of plastics are the little cocktail swords that you get in your drink.
'On a normal, non-stressful day, it'll be a whole sword, 15 times a day.'
Kailyn admits her habit could be harmful to her health, adding: 'The fact that I am eating this much in a week is huge.'
Kailyn is by no means the weirdest subject of My Strange Addiction this season. The series opens with Nathaniel, a man from Arkansas, who admits to being sexually attracted to his car.
http://i.imgur.com/NbU6T.jpg
Also featured on the show is a woman addicted to drinking nail polish, and another who will eat 900 cat treats every day.
TLC show My Strange Addiction has shown us people addicted to everything from corn starch to sleeping with hairdryers. But the new series, which starts this weekend, promises its most bizarre subjects yet.
Season three features teenager Kailyn, who admits to being hooked on eating plastic.
The 18-year-old, from Sacramento, California, believes she has eaten over 60,000 plastic goods over the past 11 years, and will even choose it over food.
http://i.imgur.com/8wL12.jpg
She is seen crunching on a variety of items in a trailer for the show, from water bottles to CD cases.
Listing some of the things she has eaten, Kailyn tells the camera: 'I have eaten 12 remotes, over 5,000 beads, over 1,000 cocktail swords, 100 forks, about ten water bottles, two pacifiers, three CD cases, about 50 hangers, about 25 plastic lids on to-go cups...'
She admits: 'Plastic is something I want and I feel like I need.'
When asked why she loves plastic so much, she explains that it is not the taste as much as the texture.
http://i.imgur.com/kWgC7.png
'It's the way it crunches and feels and it has a rough but at the same time smooth texture to it,' she says.
http://i.imgur.com/pvL2Q.jpg
The texture of a television remote control is probably one of her favourites, Kailyn reveals.
Describing how she goes about eating one, she says: 'I'll take a button off, and I'll put it on each side of my mouth, then I swallow it.'
The plastic items she snacks on most frequently, though, are cocktail swords, which she finds in the restaurant where she works.
'I'm a hostess at a restaurant and I get a lot of my plastic from there,' she explains. 'My favourite kind of plastics are the little cocktail swords that you get in your drink.
'On a normal, non-stressful day, it'll be a whole sword, 15 times a day.'
Kailyn admits her habit could be harmful to her health, adding: 'The fact that I am eating this much in a week is huge.'
Kailyn is by no means the weirdest subject of My Strange Addiction this season. The series opens with Nathaniel, a man from Arkansas, who admits to being sexually attracted to his car.
http://i.imgur.com/NbU6T.jpg
Also featured on the show is a woman addicted to drinking nail polish, and another who will eat 900 cat treats every day.