Vicki Larrieux, a 22-year-old student from Portsmouth, claims she is unable to keep to a healthy diet because she is frightened of vegetables. She suffers from a fear known as lachanophobia, which leaves her sweating and stricken with panic attacks at the merest sight of a sprout or a pea.
Miss Larrieux survives on a diet of meat, potatoes, cereals and an occasional apple but refuses even a single slice of carrot on her dinner plate. ”I have always had an irrational fear of vegetables even as a child I used to properly freak out if some carrots or a few peas were on my plate,” she said. ”But as it continued into adult life I started to think it might not just be a dislike for vegetables but an actual phobia.
“Every time I would see vegetables not just on my plate, but anywhere I would get feelings of panic, start sweating and my heart rate would shoot up. ”People might think it is a bit of a laughable affliction but I have a genuine fear of greens it’s not just that I dislike the taste of sprouts or broccoli, but the actual sight of them fills me with dread and I could never touch them.”
Telegraph (thanks, Tammy)
i blame the parents!
So if I dressed up as a carrot and started jumping up and down in front of her she would faint ? Does this fear also include plastic fruit because she is really missing out on some FUN there !! XXX
how does she cope in tescos?
And potatoes are? She don’t have a phobia, she was just a child having a paddy and it’s been allow to carry on! I eat potatoes indeed. Funny though!
It’s all down to that Doctor Who episode with the space carrots turning you into alien-zombie-hosepipes…
Having an irrational disslike for veg I can partially sympatise. Her diet is identical to mine except I have a lot of fruit rather than a little.
Ever since I was very young the taste of veg makes me vomit even if I don’t know it’s in the food. I wonder how she is with things like soup (esp blended) where you can’t actually see the veg?
She managed to pose for publicity pictures lying on a heap of vegetables, so I reckon her phobia of veggies isn’t as bad as her love of money!
I have a friend who is scared of milk cartons. Just saying.
I actually know someone who suffers from this !!
If you think that’s weird, I have a friend that’s scared of corned beef
Every kid in Britain will now have a new excuse not to eat vegetables. Thanks a lot, Vicki Larrieux!
It’s not that strange, though. I’ve got a fear of clowns, and one of my philosophy teachers has a fear of baked beans. She can’t walk down that isle in the supermarket…seriously.
Oh my … some childeren keep it up quite long huh? Ehehehe ..
Not soething I would take this serious as people can live quite well without veggies. Just a vitamine tablet will solve that. Also, I’d have her out of that quite fast. And trigger some real issues in her life. She’s probably not the one who made it this big .. sometimes you should not see into people’s fears too much when they start to describe them … they are intrigues by it theirselves as they don’t find it very logic either ..
i used to be very worried when i was around pineapples, but derren browns book fixed that
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p.s i herd of a guy that is scared of baked beens lol