The community channel TLC is residence to a few of the most nostalgic actuality exhibits. It introduced viewers memorable favorites comparable to Say Sure to the Gown, Cake Boss, and Toddlers and Tiaras, and continues to hold its reign with the ever-popular 90 Day Fiancé. However the channel has additionally had its justifiable share of weird and strange exhibits, some that really feel like a fever dream – together with the likes of I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant, Intercourse Despatched Me to the ER, and maybe most famously My Unusual Dependancy. My Unusual Dependancy showcased people who had, properly, unusual addictions. These tales would vary from odd collections to disturbing meals habits. Likelihood is should you’ve watched the present, there’s one specific story that stands proud to you greater than others. On this case, the one that stands proud to me probably the most is the girl who was hooked on consuming diapers. Sure, you learn that proper. Diapers.

Unusual Is an Understatement on ‘My Unusual Dependancy’

A few of the addictions featured on the present are genuinely simply unusual or somewhat off-putting, like the girl hooked on sucking her thumb, or the lady hooked on amassing rocks. However because the seasons went on, the addictions change into far more uncomfortable, gross, and even harmful at occasions. There’s a man who’s courting his automotive, a woman who drinks nail polish, and a girl who ate her husband’s ashes after his sudden dying – which was a powerful contender for most annoying story on the present. Whether or not these addictions are actual or fabricated for the present’s sake is up for debate, however one factor is for positive, it’s exhausting to unsee a few of these tales. That brings me again to the girl who was hooked on consuming diapers, as a result of I’ve by no means fairly been in a position to get that one out of my thoughts. It will not be probably the most harmful or life-threatening, like a few of the different tales, however it’s stunning, gross, and unfathomable, and that’s sufficient to stay burned into my mind without end.

The Woman Who’s Hooked on Chewing on Soiled Diapers

In Season 5, viewers are launched to Keyshia, a 22-year-old from Queens, who’s hooked on sniffing and chewing on soiled diapers. “It has to have pee in it. The heavier ones which have extra pee odor higher,” she says of her habit. Within the episode, she is pregnant together with her first little one, so she will get her diapers from her buddy, Kim, who has twins. Kim says that Keyshia will simply present up at any time – uninvited – to take their soiled diapers. She’ll even get up the infants and alter their diapers to get a recent one, which feels only a step too far, even for somebody who admits to gnawing on diapers as a day snack. Her fiancé reveals that she’ll dig by the rubbish to gather soiled diapers. Keyshia explains that her habit began three years prior when a buddy requested her to throw away a diaper, and he or she ended up holding it for over every week and repeatedly sniffed it all through the day. Since that first diaper, the present revealed that she had collected over 25,000 soiled diapers, including that such an quantity is a lifetime provide for six infants.

We witness her chewing on these diapers a number of occasions all through the episode. Keyshia has diapers throughout her residence, and at all times has one on her, even when she’s out in public.

“I like it, it simply tastes superb. I’ve one once I’m cooking within the kitchen, I’ve one in my drawers, I’ve one once I’m sleeping, I preserve some in my trunk, I preserve some in my pocket ebook.”

Keyshia’s associates try to stage an intervention at her child bathe by shopping for her material diapers to hopefully deter her from sniffing her personal child’s diapers when it’s born, however Keyshia doesn’t react kindly to their considerations. Even when she and her fiancé see a therapist about her habit, she nonetheless doesn’t see any challenge with it. She doesn’t a lot as cringe when she says that the diapers finally mould and entice flies. Keyshia’s habit to chewing and sniffing soiled diapers will not be probably the most excessive and even probably the most disgusting (stunning, I do know). Nonetheless, it’s nonetheless regarding – particularly since she was pregnant on the time of the episode, a priority that was introduced up by a buddy of hers. They requested her how she felt about having her personal child’s provide quickly, and he or she stated she felt nice about it. Sadly, the present defined that her habit started three years prior, so it wasn’t only a bizarre being pregnant craving destined to go away upon beginning. Right here’s hoping Keyshia has sought out assist for her habit, and her personal little one isn’t scarred (like I’m) from seeing their mom eat soiled diapers.

My Unusual Dependancy is offered to stream on TLC within the U.S.

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