'I rip out my eyelashes': Olivia Munn reveals she suffers rare disorder



Actress Olivia Munn has revealed she suffers from a rare disorder that forces her to rip out her eye lashes.

The Newsroom star said she continually has to buy false eye lashes as a result of the disorder.

Nunn, 32, said she suffers from an impulse control disorder known as trichotillomania.

Rare disorder: The Newsroom's Olivia Munn has revealed she pulls out her eyelashes due to anxiety disorder trichotillomania

She said: “I don’t bite my nails, but I rip out my eyelashes.

'It doesn’t hurt, but it’s really annoying. Every time I run out of the house, I have to stop and pick up a whole set of fake eyelashes.'

Munn, whose career has gone from strength to strength following her appearances on The Daily Show, admitted she often suffers from anxiety.

She recalled one incident where she was too scared to enter a Memorial Day party without a friend by her side.

'I don’t think anyone would describe me as weak, but I don’t want people to be mean to me,' she said.

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'As an Air Force kid, I moved around a lot when I was younger and no one was nice to the new kid. So there is always this feeling that someone will make fun of me.'

Munn stars in a new film called The Babymaker which opens later this week.

She plays a woman so desperate for a child she persuades her husband to steal from a sperm bank.

But in real life Munn said she is no hurry to get pregnant.

'I definitely don’t have a baby urge right now,' she said.



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'Having a baby is like losing your virginity; once you do it, you can’t take it back. That baby is forever.'

Munn said she has too much anxiety to raise a child.

'It’s not that I’m too busy with my career or anything, but I have this huge fear of something happening to a child of mine,' she said.