Woman Eats 4,000 Sponges And 100 Bars Of Soap

The Sun- A Dental nurse Kerry Trebilcock has eaten 4,000 sponges and over 100 bars of soap, but it hasn't been in the name of oral hygiene.
The Sun reported that Trebilcock, 21, suffers from pica, a rare disorder that causes sufferers to crave non-food items. In Trebilcock's case, this means washing sponges and organic soap. She told the Sun that she began to have these bizarre cravings in 2008, after contracting hookworm in Morocco. "I didn't want to tell anyone as I felt like a freak," she said. "But after a week I'd eaten nine sponges and over a pound of organic soap."

Just because she eats non-food items, however, does not mean that Trebilcock is not particular. She prefers lemon- and lime-flavored soaps, and she described to the Sun how she used to meticulously prepare sponges for consumption: "If I went out for the day," she said, "I'd carry a small plastic bag of cut-up pieces of sponge with some tomato and BBQ sauce in Tupperware. I was never without a 'snack.'"... The Sun