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Actors With Strange Phobias And The Reason Behind Them
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00:00Belly button?
00:01That is like my pet peeve, mine is so big.
00:03What do you mean?
00:04I hate belly buttons.
00:05I would call it an undiagnosed and yet-to-be-discovered medical condition.
00:11Everyone is afraid of something, and rich and powerful celebs are no exception.
00:15It's considered normal to be afraid of things like sharks, heights, or natural disasters,
00:20but many fears simply laugh in the face of reason.
00:22Well, more like cower in the face of reason.
00:25Today we're going to be talking about celebrities who are terrified of some rather mundane things.
00:31Find out which celebrity is terrified of tennis balls, and who can't stand the thought of
00:36a butterfly landing on them.
00:40Khloe Kardashian
00:42Everyone knows that the human body undergoes some drastic changes during pregnancy and some
00:46of them are less than fun.
00:48But Khloe Kardashian wasn't worried about swollen ankles or morning sickness.
00:52She was worried about one of her greatest fears, belly buttons.
00:55Although it may sound kind of funny, Khloe has assured her fans her case of omphalophobia
00:59is no joke.
01:00Not only is she uncomfortable around standard belly buttons, but she was terrified by the
01:04changes hers went through during pregnancy.
01:07Jake Gyllenhaal
01:08Belly buttons may be harmless, but you know what's not?
01:11Ostriches!
01:12Actor Jake Gyllenhaal claims to have developed a healthy fear of these massive birds while filming
01:16Prince of Persia, The Sands of Time.
01:19He was told to stay silent around his feathery co-stars and warned that they could tear his eyes
01:23out if he upset them.
01:25Yeah, what's so unsettling about that?
01:27Although they might look innocent, this star says he knows better.
01:31Rita Ora
01:32While most of us will never come face to face with an ostrich, this next fear is something
01:36most of us deal with multiple times a day.
01:39Rita Ora is afraid of sitting down when she uses the restroom because she worries about
01:42something emerging from the pipes.
01:45Lots of ladies prefer to hover when they use public facilities, but we think that has to do with fear of
01:50germs and not creatures emerging from the depths.
01:53Liam Payne
01:55Liam Payne, however, is cautious around germs and those which may be hanging out on one piece
01:59of cutlery in particular. Back in school, he worked in the kitchen and was frequently disgusted
02:04by what he found clinging to spoons. He claims that when dining out or visiting friends, he tries to
02:09avoid putting spoons in his mouth if it's at all humanly possible. He's not going to run screaming
02:15into the night from a spoon, but he definitely cringes if he has to put one in his mouth.
02:19Kendall Jenner
02:21Being grossed out by spoons may be uncommon, but Kendall Jenner has a pretty typical phobia.
02:26She has tripophobia, which means she feels uncomfortable when looking at things which
02:30contain lots of small holes or bumps or irregular patterns. She admits to being uneasy at the sight
02:36of pancakes and honeycomb, but says the absolute worst things are lotus heads.
02:41Scarlett Johansson
02:43Many us find birdsong peaceful, but not actress Scarlett Johansson. She admits to finding our avian
02:48friends quite frightening and had trouble on the set of the movie We Bought a Zoo because of the
02:53peacocks. According to ScarJo, the flapping of wings and the side of beaks are just too much
02:58for her to handle. We wonder if she was nervous about the Marvel hero Falcon while she portrayed
03:03Black Widow.
03:04Kristen Bell
03:05When we get ready to go into the swimming pool, we grab our swimsuits, but Kristen Bell
03:09needs an additional accessory to feel comfortable. She packs a pair of rubber gloves whenever she
03:14plans on getting her hands wet for more than a moment. According to her husband Dax Shepard,
03:19she just can't stand the way pruny fingers feel on her skin. So to get around this,
03:24she never gets in the water without a pair of her trusty pool gloves.
03:28Britney Spears
03:29Kristen uses gloves to comfort her phobia, but Britney Spears was forced to face hers
03:33head-on at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards. She wowed the audience by showing up on stage with
03:39a massive albino python, and fans couldn't even tell she was absolutely petrified. Britney claims
03:45to be terrified of all reptiles and winces just thinking back to that performance.
03:49The creature she finds the most terrifying is Komodo dragons, and honestly, that's a pretty
03:54rational fear. Nicole Kidman
03:56Most of us would be nervous around a massive lizard, but what about a beautiful butterfly?
04:01Nicole Kidman says she can stare down a cockroach or jump out of an airplane,
04:04but just keep butterflies away from her. She even tried visiting the American Museum
04:09of Natural History to conquer her fear, but it didn't work, and she couldn't stand the feeling
04:14of their bodies. Matthew McConaughey
04:17Matthew McConaughey is another celeb with a phobia, and no, it's not to wearing a shirt.
04:21He admits he can't stand using revolving doors because they make him feel too trapped.
04:26Matthew also gets afraid when he tries through tunnels, and reaches a point where he can't
04:30see what's up ahead. Adele
04:33Adele's phobia has to do with a traumatic childhood incident that left her with a scar.
04:37Once, when she was young, she was innocently enjoying some ice cream when a seagull swooped
04:42down and attacked her. Okay, that might sound kind of comical, but its claws left a scar on
04:47Adele's shoulder and also left her with a lifelong fear of seagulls.
04:51Channing Tatum
04:52Channing Tatum also has a fear stemming from a traumatic incident, but this time it was only
04:56one he saw on television. He watched an episode of the Friday the 13th television show about
05:01porcelain dolls, and ever since then they creep him out. He finds their cold faces and eyes immensely
05:07unsettling, and feels like when he walks past them they might turn their heads to look at him.
05:11We're sure Channing turns a lot of heads in the real world, but hopefully none of them belong to dolls.
05:16Sarah Paulson
05:17Sarah Paulson may be the queen of screams on American Horror Story, but she does have some
05:22real-life fears. Like many people, she finds clowns frightening, which must have made filming season
05:28four a ton of fun. She also admits to being terrified of bees, and says if one came near
05:33her while she was carrying a small child, she would likely drop it so she could run away faster.
05:37To top it all off, Sarah also struggles with trypophobia, and says she can't stand looking at items
05:42like pieces of coral or natural sponges. Kristen Stewart
05:46Sarah might want to run away from her fears, but Kristen Stewart had to face hers during filming
05:50for Snow White and the Huntsman. When she was nine years old, she fell off a horse and broke her elbow,
05:55and she's been terrified of the creatures ever since. Jennifer Aniston
06:00Jennifer Aniston also took a nasty childhood tumble, which left her with a lifelong fear.
06:04She was riding her tricycle around a swimming pool when she fell in. Because she was clinging to
06:09her trike, she couldn't get out and had to be rescued by her brother. Ever since then,
06:14she has a tremendous fear of being submerged in water. Oprah Winfrey
06:18Everyone knows Oprah Winfrey likes telling people to check under their seats, but something frequently
06:23found there is her greatest fear. When she was growing up, her grandmother would save her old
06:28chewing gum and stick it to cabinets and bedposts. Oprah was always running into it and ending up in a
06:34disgusting mess. To this day, she hates gum and has even banned it in her place of employment.
06:40Megan Fox
06:41Many people are grossed out by gum, and we assume admitted germaphobe Megan Fox is as well.
06:46She says she lives in fear of bacteria and worries about it billowing into the air when she flushes.
06:52Megan also hates the tactile sensation of dry paper and compares it to hearing nails on a chalkboard,
06:57so when she flips through a script, she always has to wet her fingers first.
07:01Megan also confesses to being scared of the dark and says she isn't above racing to the light switch
07:07to turn it on. Justin Timberlake
07:09Being afraid of the dark can be embarrassing once you've passed a certain age, and Justin Timberlake
07:14also has a fear he can't hide. He's terrified of spiders and admits he's had to call the front desk
07:19when he found one in his hotel room. You might think spiders are more scared of you than you are of
07:25them, but this star disagrees. Matt Damon
07:28Matt Damon is also afraid of a frequently feared creature, but in his case, it's snakes.
07:33He admits to being petrified on the set of We Bought a Zoo when he had to be around them.
07:38Between Matt's fear of snakes and Scarlett Johansson's fear of birds, there was a lot of
07:42terror on the set of this lighthearted family film. Katie Holmes
07:47We've heard of people being afraid of snakes and spiders, but we have to admit raccoons are a new one.
07:52Most people find these adorable trash pandas charming, but not actress Katie Holmes.
07:57She says the fact that these critters generally aren't afraid of humans make them all the more
08:01unsettling in her book. Orlando Bloom
08:05Another celebrity who is scared of a fairly common animal is Orlando Bloom. Although he admits it's
08:10irrational, he just can't help but be scared of pigs. When he was working on the set of Kingdom of
08:16Heaven, a pig got loose and allegedly Orlando absolutely panicked. He totally lost his composure
08:21when faced with his fear and ran away in terror. Helen Mirren
08:26Between text messages, emails, and all the other ways we have to contact one another,
08:29who still uses a telephone? Seriously, the younger generations get a lot of flack for this,
08:34but we're not the only ones pressing the decline call button. Helen Mirren claims talking on the
08:39phone makes her incredibly nervous and she admits to never returning phone calls. She even takes full
08:44advantage of her answering machine and avoids picking up the phone whenever possible.
08:48P. Diddy
08:49Don't take it personally if Helen doesn't answer your calls or if P. Diddy is too scared to be around
08:55you. That's because this star has a fear of people whose second toes are longer than their big toes.
09:00This might not seem like a big deal, but Diddy claims it's even influenced his dating life. He
09:05simply can't date someone with this particular toe configuration, so at some point on the first date,
09:10the shoes have to come off. Ellen Page
09:13Some stars blame their fears on traumatic events, while others can't articulate just
09:17what bothers them so much. Ellen Page admits to being terrified of tennis balls, but says she
09:22has no clue why. Because of the tennis balls used in conjunction with motion capture on X- Days of
09:27Future Past, fans can be assured the fear Ellen displayed was in fact a very real. She says her
09:33fear is so overpowering she can't even be in the same room if people are watching tennis.
09:37Johnny Depp
09:38Lots of little kids like clowns, but Johnny Depp has never been one of them. Ever since he was a
09:43kid he found them unsettling, and this hasn't gone away as an adult. He says it's their makeup and
09:48their painted-on smiles which makes it impossible to know what their true intentions are. Okay,
09:53it does sound kind of scary when you put it like that. Tyra Banks
09:58Many people admit to finding clowns unsettling, but everyone loves beautiful majestic dolphins, right?
10:03Well, not Tyra Banks apparently. She claims to find these underwater mammals absolutely terrifying,
10:09and she even has nightmares about them from time to time. In her worst dreams she's in the ocean with
10:14dolphins bumping into her legs. Woody Allen
10:17Everyone has something they're afraid of, but director Woody Allen claims to be afraid of just
10:22about everything. You might think he's exaggerating, but Woody insists he is afraid of everything from
10:26sensible fears to things most of us enjoy. Things like heights, crowds, small rooms, and germs are
10:33things which weigh heavily on many of our minds. But he also claims to be fearful of things like
10:38sunshine, deer, bright colors, and even dogs? According to Woody, he is also pretty much
10:43terrified of any place which isn't Manhattan. These celebrities all have surprising fears,
10:48but maybe they made you feel less alone about something you're afraid of? Are you scared of
10:52something relatively mundane? If so, tell us about it in the comment section and then click on the
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