The world is home to some uniquely bizarre behaviours and habits that are sometimes dangerous or even life-threatening. Enter, TLC's My Strange Addiction. The American show premiered back in 2010 and has been going strong ever since, with its extreme obsessions with random objects, food and alternative lifestyles. From being an adult baby to eating cat hair to being in a long-term relationship with a car, here are eight of our all-time favourites – for all of the wrong reasons: Obsessed with sniffing tuna Tuna-loving man Tyler confessed to being addicted to the tinned fish, sniffing and drinking the brine at every given opportunity. He even demonstrated to his date how he sometimes uses it as an aftershave on his neck. This Man Is Addicted to Smelling Tuna! | My Strange Addiction: Still Addicted? | TLC www.youtube.com Adult baby who still wears nappies and sleeps in a cot Riley from Buffalo, lives her life as a full-grown baby. She wears nappies, sleeps in a cot with a dummy and plays with teddies. "It helps me wash away the stress of the big, tough world," she said. Addicted To Living As An Adult Baby | My Strange Addiction www.youtube.com Man romantically involved with his car Nathanial got candid about his romantic relationship with his "handsome man," AKA Chase the car. He told TLC it was "love at first sight," after seeing the car's "body, his interior and everything just together that seemed to fit." Sex With My Car | My Strange Addiction www.youtube.com Addicted to eating dirty nappies Keyshia from Queens, who was expecting her first child, opened up about one very unique obsession: chewing dirty nappies. "It has to have pee in it," she said. "The heavier ones that have more pee, smell better." My Strange Addiction Chews Dirty Diapers Season 5, Episode 5 www.youtube.com Woman who licks cats Lisa candidly shared how she was addicted to "eating cat hair."She described the sensation as "relaxing" and "comforting," before comparing the texture to "cotton candy". Woman Grooms Cat With Her Own Tongue And Eats The Hair | My Strange Addiction www.youtube.com Obsessed with bee stings Margaret can't get enough of stinging herself with bees all over her body, with 15-20 stings in her left hip during one single sitting. Addicted to Bee Stings | My Strange Addiction www.youtube.com Sexually attracted to balloons Julius opened up to My Strange Addiction about his love for balloons, which he described as "beautiful, soft, smooth, delicate". He acknowledged that while he is aware they are not alive, that his love for them brings them alive. Meet The Man Who Is Sexually Attracted To Balloons | My Strange Addiction www.youtube.com Eating sand 'for the crunch' Brea's favourite snack is sand... She likes to season her food with grains but her favourite combination is chewing gum mixed with sand. "I Just Love The Crunch" Young Woman Is Addicted To Eating Sand | My Strange Addiction www.youtube.com Sign up for our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.
The world is home to some uniquely bizarre behaviours and habits that are sometimes dangerous or even life-threatening. Enter, TLC's My Strange Addiction.
The American show premiered back in 2010 and has been going strong ever since, with its extreme obsessions with random objects, food and alternative lifestyles.
From being an adult baby to eating cat hair to being in a long-term relationship with a car, here are eight of our all-time favourites – for all of the wrong reasons:
Obsessed with sniffing tuna
Tuna-loving man Tyler confessed to being addicted to the tinned fish, sniffing and drinking the brine at every given opportunity.
He even demonstrated to his date how he sometimes uses it as an aftershave on his neck.
This Man Is Addicted to Smelling Tuna! | My Strange Addiction: Still Addicted? | TLC www.youtube.com
Adult baby who still wears nappies and sleeps in a cot
Riley from Buffalo, lives her life as a full-grown baby. She wears nappies, sleeps in a cot with a dummy and plays with teddies.
"It helps me wash away the stress of the big, tough world," she said.
Addicted To Living As An Adult Baby | My Strange Addiction www.youtube.com
Man romantically involved with his car
Nathanial got candid about his romantic relationship with his "handsome man," AKA Chase the car.
He told TLC it was "love at first sight," after seeing the car's "body, his interior and everything just together that seemed to fit."
Sex With My Car | My Strange Addiction www.youtube.com
Addicted to eating dirty nappies
Keyshia from Queens, who was expecting her first child, opened up about one very unique obsession: chewing dirty nappies.
"It has to have pee in it," she said. "The heavier ones that have more pee, smell better."
My Strange Addiction Chews Dirty Diapers Season 5, Episode 5 www.youtube.com
Woman who licks cats
Lisa candidly shared how she was addicted to "eating cat hair."She described the sensation as "relaxing" and "comforting," before comparing the texture to "cotton candy".
Woman Grooms Cat With Her Own Tongue And Eats The Hair | My Strange Addiction www.youtube.com
Obsessed with bee stings
Margaret can't get enough of stinging herself with bees all over her body, with 15-20 stings in her left hip during one single sitting.
Addicted to Bee Stings | My Strange Addiction www.youtube.com
Sexually attracted to balloons
Julius opened up to My Strange Addiction about his love for balloons, which he described as "beautiful, soft, smooth, delicate".
He acknowledged that while he is aware they are not alive, that his love for them brings them alive.
Meet The Man Who Is Sexually Attracted To Balloons | My Strange Addiction www.youtube.com
Eating sand 'for the crunch'
Brea's favourite snack is sand...
She likes to season her food with grains but her favourite combination is chewing gum mixed with sand.
"I Just Love The Crunch" Young Woman Is Addicted To Eating Sand | My Strange Addiction www.youtube.com
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