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Season 1

  • SPECIAL 0x1 Pilot

    • May 5, 2010
    • TLC

    Viewers are provided with a look into the minds of the psychologically imbalanced through the personal testimonies of three people: one who is addicted to the taste of chalk, another who is obsessed with running, and a third who shops compulsively.

  • S01E01 Sleeping with Blow Dryer; Eating Toilet Paper

    • December 29, 2010
    • TLC

    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.

  • S01E02 Extreme Bodybuilding; Thumb Sucking

    • December 29, 2010
    • TLC

    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.

  • S01E03 Eating Cleanser; Tanning

    • January 5, 2011
    • TLC

    Crystal has been eating household cleanser everyday since she was twelve. Her shame, embarrassment and concern for her health have caused her to keep this a secret. 20-year-old Samantha tans up to three times a day in tanning beds, in addition to tanning outdoors slathered in vegetable oil.

  • S01E04 Ventriloquism; Cats

    • January 5, 2011
    • TLC

    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.

  • S01E05 Eats Detergent; Strongman

    • January 12, 2011
    • TLC

    A teen who eats detergent up to seven times a day is profiled. Also: A man is obsessed with training for strongman competitions.

  • S01E06 Hair Puller; Shoe Fanatic

    • January 12, 2011
    • TLC

    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.

  • S01E07 Eats Couch Cushion; Furry

    • January 19, 2011
    • TLC

    A woman insists on wearing her fur suit everywhere she goes; another woman has been eating couch cushions for 20 years.

  • S01E08 Married to A Doll; Picking My Scabs

    • January 26, 2011
    • TLC

    A man treats his life-size doll like a wife; a woman spends hours a day picking scabs on her body.

  • S01E09 Can't Stop Cleaning; Love Rocks

    • February 2, 2011
    • TLC

    Cyntrelle spends up to eight hours everyday cleaning her home; Belinda excessively collects rocks.

  • S01E10 Eats Glass; Bleaches Skin

    • February 9, 2011
    • TLC

    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.

  • S01E11 Make-up Addict; Obsessed With Death

    • February 9, 2011
    • TLC

    Maureen is obsessed with her make-up; Barbara prefers the company of those who have passed on.

  • S01E12 Laxatives; Pottery & Ashes

    • February 16, 2011
    • TLC

    At fifteen, Kimberly started using laxatives to lose weight and is now addicted to them; Bianca craves pottery and ashes.

Season 2

  • SPECIAL 0x2 Still Addicted?

    • June 12, 2011
    • TLC

    A revisit to six addicts whose stories shocked the world shows that some have transformed their lives but others have become more compulsive.

  • S02E01 Growing Fingernails; Hairless Rats

    • July 17, 2011
    • TLC

    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.

  • S02E02 Pulling Hair Out of Drains; Eating Drywall

    • July 17, 2011
    • TLC

    28-year-old Evan has hidden a strange addiction from almost everyone he know, pulling hair from shower drains. In social situations, he heads straight to the bathroom and compulsively pulls hair out of the homeowner’s shower drain. For the past seven years, 26-year-old Nicole has been eating the drywall. She craves the taste and will eat up to three square feet of drywall every week.

  • S02E03 Adult Baby; Eating Dryer Sheets

    • July 24, 2011
    • TLC

    25-year-old Riley lives her life as an adult baby and refuses to grow up. She sleeps in a crib, drinks out of a bottle and even wears diapers 24 hours a day. 35-year-old Charmissa has been addicted to chewing dryer sheets for four years. She wraps them up in toilet paper and tears off a piece when she has a craving. Chewing on them helps to calm her nerves, but the chemicals in the dryer sheets can cause cancer.

  • S02E04 Sniffing Gasoline; Teddy Bears

    • July 24, 2011
    • TLC

    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.

  • S02E05 Cycling; Taxidermy

    • July 31, 2011
    • TLC

    55-year-old Tom has been addicted to cycling for more than 25 years. He peddles at least 6 hours a day, seven days a week. He rides his bike at home, outside and even in his office as he works. Divya is an attractive 28-year-old with a very unattractive addiction to taxidermy. She spends her days and nights searching for animals on the side of the road and even keeps a freezer full of dead mice – despite the risk of disease.

  • S02E06 Eating Rocks; Carrying Pillows

    • July 31, 2011
    • TLC

    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.

  • S02E07 Carrying My Husband's Urn

    • August 7, 2011
    • TLC

    26-year-old Casie has been so devastated by the sudden loss of her husband, Shawn, that she brings his urn with her wherever she goes. Her family is worried about her well-being, but does not know that Casie has taken her addiction to a shocking new extreme.

  • S02E08 Eating Plastic; Bathing in Bleach

    • August 7, 2011
    • TLC

    18-year-old Kailyn has eaten plastic every day for more eleven years – remote controls, CD cases, forks and water bottles are some of her favorites. She eats up to 15 pieces of plastic a day and even chooses plastic over food. 28-year-old Gloria has taken her addiction to bleach to the extreme – she bathes in it daily, pours it on her hand to smell while she’s out and will even tear into bottles at the store so she can get a quick fix.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Dating My Car; Baby Powder Addiction

    • February 12, 2012
    • TLC

    Season 3 begins with a man who shows his love for his car by buying it gifts and taking it out on dates; and a 28-year-old who has been sniffing baby powder for 16 years.

  • S03E02 Eats Cat Food; Smells Mothballs

    • February 12, 2012
    • TLC

    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.

  • S03E03 Addicted to My Breasts; Tape Eater

    • February 19, 2012
    • TLC

    Profiling a woman who has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on breast augmentation, even though the implants have caused an infection; and a woman who can’t stop eating adhesive tape.

  • S03E04 Drinks Nail Polish; Ear Digger

    • February 19, 2012
    • TLC

    A woman’s family is worried about her five-year habit of drinking nail polish; a woman is obsessed with cleaning her ears.

  • S03E05 Eats Dirt; Extreme Toenails

    • March 4, 2012
    • TLC

    A woman who has eaten dirt every day for 30 years; a woman who is obsessed with growing her toenails.

  • S03E06 Smells Pine Cleaner; Roadkill Addict

    • March 4, 2012
    • TLC

    A man picks up dead animals on the road; a woman feels the need to smell pine-oil cleaner every 15 minutes.

  • S03E07 Drinks Gasoline; Smelling Her Doll Head

    • March 11, 2012
    • TLC

    A woman who drinks gasoline by the teaspoon; a woman obsessed with smelling a doll's head.

  • S03E08 Urine Drinker

    • March 18, 2012
    • TLC

    Carrie, a 53-year old woman who does a lot more with her urine than flush it down the toilet. She drinks it, bathes in it, brushes her teeth with it and even rinses out her eyes with it.

Season 4

  • S04E01 Addicted to Coffee Enemas; Licks Cats

    • February 13, 2013
    • TLC

    Trina and her husband Mike have done nearly 7,000 coffee enemas over the last two and a half years; Lisa has been addicted to licking her cat and eating clumps of hair for three years.

  • S04E02 Addicted to Inflatables; Butt Injection Addict

    • February 13, 2013
    • TLC

    For the last six years, 20-year-old Mark has been addicted to his 15 inflatable pool toys as he eats with them, sleeps with them and even bathes them; Karmello has been getting black market butt injections for the last three years.

  • S04E03 Extreme Hair; Addicted to Bee Stings

    • February 20, 2013
    • TLC

    47-year-old Asha hasn't cut her 21-foot long hair in nearly a quarter century and spends up to six hours a day grooming her ten-pound locks. Meanwhile, 53-year old Margaret has stung herself over 50,000 times with bees.

  • S04E04 Loves Baby Wipes; Eats Sand

    • February 20, 2013
    • TLC

    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.

  • S04E05 The Lamb; Eats Deodorant

    • February 27, 2013
    • TLC

    A man pleads with his 19-year-old girlfriend to kick her two-year habit of eating more than a dozen sticks of deodorant per month; a 27-year-old woman can't live without a stuffed animal.

  • S04E06 Vapor Rub; Eats Tires

    • March 6, 2013
    • TLC

    Man has uncontrollable urges of eating tires and finds himself running after cars and munching on said tires. He is often found late in parking lots devouring peoples precious tires. Michellin are is favourite. He says they are scrumptious. Girl uses vapor rub as lubricant causing burning sensations and painful urination. However, on the positive side, her privates have remained cold free since 1993.

  • S04E07 In Love with Balloons; Face Mask Eater

    • March 13, 2013
    • TLC

    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.

  • S04E08 Blood Drinker

    • March 20, 2013
    • TLC

    Michelle has been addicted to drinking blood for 15 years, both human and pig blood.

Season 5

  • S05E01 I'm a Living Doll

    • January 1, 2014
    • TLC

    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.

  • S05E02 Pony Play; Addicted to Drinking Paint

    • January 1, 2014
    • TLC

    The fifth season begins with a woman who drinks paint; and another involved in a form of costumed role-play called pony play.

  • S05E03 Identical Twin Obsession; Eats Mattresses

    • January 1, 2014
    • TLC

    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.

  • S05E04 Proud to Be Plastic

    • January 8, 2014
    • TLC

    "My Strange Addiction" tells the stories of people who can't kick their unusual addictions. Lacey, a 44-year-old mother of six has had at least 30 plastic surgery procedures and spent more than $250,000 building the most extreme body in the world.

  • S05E05 Chews Dirty Diapers; Addicted to Leeches

    • January 15, 2014
    • TLC

    Profiled addicts include a 22-year-old woman who is addicted to chewing on urine-soaked diapers and a 50-year-old man who uses leeches up to 40 times a year.

  • S05E06 Addicted to Dolls; Eats Plastic Bags

    • January 22, 2014
    • TLC

    Eating plastic newspaper bags is a 23-year-old man's habit; a doll is a 48-year-old woman's best friend.

  • S05E07 Justin Bieber Look-a-like; Makeup Eater

    • January 29, 2014
    • TLC

    A 33-year-old man spends thousands of dollars on cosmetic surgery to look like singer Justin Bieber; a 22-year-old woman can't stop eating makeup.

Season 6

  • S06E01 Men in Doll Suits

    • January 7, 2015
    • TLC

    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.

  • S06E02 Eats Bricks; Married to a Carnival Ride

    • January 14, 2015
    • TLC

    A woman loves a carnival ride; a woman has been eating bricks for a dozen years.

  • S06E03 Addicted to Being Pamela Anderson

    • January 14, 2015
    • TLC

    Carolyn Anderson, a 29-year-old women from the UK, is addicted to transforming herself into Baywatch beauty Pamela Anderson.

  • S06E04 Addicted to Air Freshner; Long Neck Women

    • January 21, 2015
    • TLC

    Profiled addicts include: Evelyn, who drinks air freshener every day, and Sydney, who is obsessed with having the world's longest neck.

  • S06E05 Addicted to Psychics; Addicted to Body Casting

    • January 21, 2015
    • TLC

    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.

  • S06E06 Grandma Lover; Addicted to Being Madonna

    • January 28, 2015
    • TLC

    My Strange Addiction profiles addicts including Kyle, 31, who exclusively dates women over the age of 65 and Adam who is intent upon becoming Madonna.

  • S06E07 Top 10 Most Shocking

    • February 4, 2015
    • TLC

    In this special episode of My Strange Addiction, we count down the ten most shocking addictions ever featured on the series and provide updates.

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