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Mother can't stop eating her ARMCHAIR due to bizarre addiction that makes her crave foam
The Daily Mail ^ | March 17, 2016 | Alley Einstein

Posted on 03/18/2016 9:11:39 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

A mother-of-one who developed cravings for sponge during her pregnancy has spoken out about her unusual addiction to foam.

Vicky Cullen, 28, not only eats the padding in her own armchair but buys washing-up sponges to snack on and likes to add foam to her recipes when cooking.

The single mother from Wakefield, South Yorkshire, estimated she has eaten her way through 2000 sponges since she developed the obsession when she was five-months pregnant with her daughter Olivia, now five.

Vicky, who has been diagnosed with pica, an eating disorder which means adults ingest non-nutritive substances, said: 'It's weird to tell people I have eaten a sofa chair and to hide their foam cushions when I visit.

'I've only just started revealing the extent of my cravings to friends and family because of a commitment to help make people more aware of the problem.'

Vicky's mainly snacks on a large armchair in her living room: 'It's a single yellow and white-coloured chair and I particularly like jam or Nutella on the foam pieces. In the morning I like to dip them in orange juice.'

She said: I have tried the foam in shoulder pads and bras but it doesn't beat the foam in my particular chair.

Vicky's cravings began in May 2011, when she was five months pregnant.

She said: 'Most women experience weird food cravings during pregnancy and often well after giving birth.

'My friends have told me how they craved pickles and honey or tuna and ice-cream. But not me, I have been shoving foam and sponge into my mouth for the past five years since the cravings started midway through my pregnancy.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Health/Medicine; Local News; Miscellaneous; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: eatingdisorder; england; pica; vickycullen; wakefield; yorkshire
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I've only just started revealing the extent of my cravings to friends and family

Sure, no one ever noticed big hunks missing from their furniture.

21 posted on 03/18/2016 9:48:48 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
When she say someone is “sponge worthy”, that's not necessarily a good thing!
22 posted on 03/18/2016 9:51:13 PM PDT by llevrok (To liberals, Treason Is the New Patriotism)
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To: Ransomed

I saw a show ‘Intervention’? about a woman who claimed to be addicted to eating toilet paper.


23 posted on 03/18/2016 9:54:25 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I cant imagine just how thirsty she must be.


24 posted on 03/18/2016 9:54:43 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Would you like some whine with your chaise?


25 posted on 03/18/2016 10:07:12 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I apologize for not apologizing.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Rubio’s syndrome?


26 posted on 03/18/2016 10:09:31 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

+1


27 posted on 03/18/2016 10:10:21 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: kcvl

Go ahead, say it. Out loud.

28 posted on 03/18/2016 10:11:21 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

probably much better for her than a certain big fastfood hamburger


29 posted on 03/18/2016 10:30:17 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
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To: kcvl
After eating a typewriter my doctor diagnosed me with pica pica.
30 posted on 03/18/2016 10:32:15 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (An orange jumpsuit is the new black pantsuit.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Without even reading the article...must be a LIB.


31 posted on 03/18/2016 10:36:09 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or eradication Camp?)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Note to self: Turn down all dinner invites from Ms Cullen..


32 posted on 03/18/2016 10:38:58 PM PDT by howlinhound (Live your life so that, when you get up in the morning, Satan says, "Oh Crap!..He's awake" - Unknown)
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To: howlinhound
Note to self: Turn down all dinner invites from Ms Cullen..

Oh, you can by all means accept a dinner invitation from Ms Cullen. Just don't forget to bring a "host gift" when you come - maybe a throw-cushion, or some shoulder pads!

Regards,

33 posted on 03/18/2016 10:44:37 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Ransomed
I doubt anyone develops something like this in the places where actual starvation or even severe malnutrition regularly occurs.

Yeah they do.

Partly because they eat things that we would not normally because they are hungry.

Over time they come to crave it.

It is called "earth eating" and it usually shows up in pregnant women.

34 posted on 03/18/2016 10:51:19 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Have they tried giving her a salt-lick?


35 posted on 03/18/2016 10:55:13 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: howlinhound

But I’ll bet she makes a sponge cake to die for!
“Ma’am, could you bring me another pitcher of water?”


36 posted on 03/18/2016 11:02:41 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Maybe she can be recovered?


37 posted on 03/18/2016 11:04:24 PM PDT by acad1228 (Cruz or Lose! “Where the vision is lost, the people perish”—Proverbs 29:18)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

If she lives to be 100 there’s going to be a serious run on armchairs.


38 posted on 03/18/2016 11:04:33 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (u)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

KEYBOARD CUISINE

39 posted on 03/18/2016 11:07:48 PM PDT by henbane
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To: tumblindice

You owe me a sponge to clean up my keyboard.


40 posted on 03/18/2016 11:56:58 PM PDT by easternsky
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