A rare medical condition has left Tempestt Henderson, from Florida, eating up to five bars of soap a week - and washing powder too.
Today, she faces a long road of recovery, but says she hopes she’ll never have to eat soap ever again.
'I suppose my Mum is secretly relieved that I was addicted to soap,' she admitted, 'and not dangerous drugs or something.'
Full story here.
4 comments:
Something fishy here. If she's from Florida, there's no chance that she uses the word "Mum" for Mother. Mom, Mommy, Mama, Momma, Ma... all of those are possibilities. Not Mum. Also, she says she was hooked "straight away." I've yet to hear any American use that term. Either the whole story is made up or her direct quotes are.
Well, the story is printed in the Daily Mail, which I guess makes it suspect... but I presume that if it is true, she said "Mom" and the Mail printed it with the UK spelling, "Mum."
Cath,
That's what I assumed until I read the whole article. But there are a LOT of things in quotation marks that an American just wouldn't say. We don't even call it washing powder or washing detergent. And quotation marks indicate a direct quotation.
Although now that I look at it, those aren't really quotation marks. They're apostrophes.
Ha ha... way to go, Daily Mail.
Heh, good observation! Yeah, (mis)quoting an American as saying "washing detergent" is definitely indicative of shoddy journalism (at best). (Although, as you say, those aren't really quotation marks...).
Also, the very posed/fetishistic photos of her eating soap are, well... odd. Definitely sensationalist and also kind of creepy, seeing as she's purportedly recovering from her addiction. It's like having a recovering alcoholic pose with an open bottle of whiskey in his mouth. CLASSY.
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