The WORST episodes of My Strange Addiction
Every episode of My Strange Addiction ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of My Strange Addiction!
Some people turn to chocolate when stressed, others will indulge with a little retail therapy and maybe schedule a massage, but the individuals featured on My Strange Addiction resort to extreme and unusual things in an effort to emotionally regulate themselves. Some of the strange addictions explored in each episode are everything from an obsession with a blow dryer, to another eating toilet paper, to spending time with a silicone person, to eating detergent, to extreme body building, and to thumb sucking.
#1 - Top 10 Most Shocking
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/4/2015
In this special episode of My Strange Addiction, we count down the ten most shocking addictions ever featured on the series and provide updates.
#2 - Addicted to Being Pamela Anderson
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/14/2015
Carolyn Anderson, a 29-year-old women from the UK, is addicted to transforming herself into Baywatch beauty Pamela Anderson.
#4 - Men in Doll Suits
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/2015
Men who get dolled up in secret are stepping out in public for the first time at rubber doll rendezvous. This is an insider's look into the world of female maskers: men who dress in rubber suits and masks to look like life-sized, shapely female dolls.
#5 - Addicted to Psychics; Addicted to Body Casting
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/21/2015
This episode of My Strange Addiction profiles Kevin who constantly covers his body in plaster casts even though he is not injured and Melissa who is incapable of making a decision without consulting a psychic.
#6 - 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.
#7 - Sniffing Gasoline; Teddy Bears
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/24/2011
For the past 30 years, 44-year-old Theresa has been sniffing gasoline out of a water bottle. Her addiction has gotten so bad that she can’t go more than ten minutes without a sniff. 26-year-old Krista is a loving and caring mother… to her 12 teddy bears. Krista tends to her troop of teddy bears as any mother would: dressing them, caring for them and putting them to bed every day.
#8 - Identical Twin Obsession; Eats Mattresses
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/1/2014
Forty-four-year-old twins do everything they can to remain indentical; a 26-year-old woman has been eating mattresses for more than 20 years.
#9 - Growing Fingernails; Hairless Rats
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/17/2011
48-year-old Jazz has been growing her fingernails for the past 22 years. Even though her extreme fingernails make life tough, Jazz refuses to cut her nails. 56-year-old Theresa is addicted to her 52 hairless rats. Instead of working, she spends her day feeding, cleaning and caring for her strange obsession.
#10 - 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.
#11 - In Love with Balloons; Face Mask Eater
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/13/2013
Julius has been sexually attracted to balloons for decades and keeps more than 50,000 in his home at all times. Natasha eats entire jars of clay face masks every day.
#12 - Addicted to Air Freshner; Long Neck Women
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/21/2015
Profiled addicts include: Evelyn, who drinks air freshener every day, and Sydney, who is obsessed with having the world's longest neck.
#13 - Eating Rocks; Carrying Pillows
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/31/2011
44-year-old Teresa has been eating rocks for more than 20 years. She drives up to an hour away from her Virginia home to gather the stones she finds most appetizing. Tamara is a 33-year-old personal trainer whose been carrying around her childhood pillow for over 25 years. Tamara takes her pillow everywhere – to work, to the mall, on long walks – and considers it her best friend.
#14 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - Blood Drinker
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/20/2013
Michelle has been addicted to drinking blood for 15 years, both human and pig blood.
#20 - 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.
#21 - Eats Cat Food; Smells Mothballs
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/12/2012
A woman eats hundreds of cat treats and wet food every day; a woman who has been smelling mothballs for 15 years stores them all over her house and in her purse.
#22 - Pony Play; Addicted to Drinking Paint
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/1/2014
The fifth season begins with a woman who drinks paint; and another involved in a form of costumed role-play called pony play.
#23 - Loves Baby Wipes; Eats Sand
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/20/2013
43-year-old Riah has been addicted to baby wipes since she was 15 and goes through up to 500 every day. She's so hooked she even uses wipes in place of showering. Meanwhille, 19-year-old Brea has been addicted to eating sand for the past five years.
#25 - I'm a Living Doll
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2014
Meet Justin, Venus, and Emily - three unconventional individuals who willingly take extreme physical and psychological measures, despite whatever criticism they may face, to look and live their lives as full time human dolls.