Woman who eats sofas

Woman who eats sofas

This is no April Fools joke - a woman in the United Kingdom actually eats sofas.The mother-of-five has an addiction to eating non-food items such as elastic bands, rubbers and other objects she finds lying around her home.The Sun reports that Adele Edwards, 30, has eaten eight sofas and five chairs in her lifetime.As funny as it may sound, it is a deadly habit.Doctors say she is suffering from an eating disorder called Pica from the Latin word for magpie where sufferers are compelled to consume non-food items.She already has had an emergency treatment to remove chunks of foam from her intestines.Doctors say the habit will eventually poison her.Adele's boyfriend Chasney, 26, has also begged her to stop the deadly habit.Adele, from Florida, said: "I was ten years old when I was first introduced to cushion."At first, I thought it was strange but, after sucking it for a while, I came to like the texture."I started chewing cushion regularly and would swallow whole chunks as though it was candy floss. It sounds strange but, to me, foam tasted like sweets."But after nearly 20 years of suffering from the addiction Adele is now fearful the disorder will leave her children motherless.She said on US TV show My Strange Addiction: "I'm scared. I've never eaten cushion in front of my kids, I don't want them to copy me."They don't know what I'm doing to my body but I'm terrified that one day, they'll have to tell people: 'Mummy died from eating too many sofas'."To watch the video go here.
Source: The Sun
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Published April 1 2011