I'm addicted to eating plastic: Meet the teenage girl who snacks on water bottles, CD cases and even TV remotes



TLC show My Strange Addiction has shown us people addicted to everything from corn starch to sleeping with hairdryers. But the new series, which starts this weekend, promises its most bizarre subjects yet.

Season three features teenager Kailyn, who admits to being hooked on eating plastic.

The 18-year-old, from Sacramento, California, believes she has eaten over 60,000 plastic goods over the past 11 years, and will even choose it over food.

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Strange addiction: Kailyn, 18, from Sacramento, California, is hooked on eating plastic and believes she has eaten over 60,000 items over the past 11 years

She is seen crunching on a variety of items in a trailer for the show , from water bottles to CD cases.

Listing some of the things she has eaten, Kailyn tells the camera : 'I have eaten 12 remotes, over 5,000 beads, over 1,000 cocktail swords, 100 forks, about ten water bottles, two pacifiers, three CD cases, about 50 hangers, about 25 plastic lids on to-go cups...'

She admits: 'Plastic is something I want and I feel like I need.'

When asked why she loves plastic so much, she explains that it is not the taste as much as the texture.

Favourite snack: Kailyn believes she has eaten over 60,000 plastic goods, and will even choose it over food

Out of control: Kailyn says television remotes are one of her favourite things to eat, and demonstrated how she starts by biting off the buttons

'It's the way it crunches and feels and it has a rough but at the same time smooth texture to it,' she says.

Staple diet: One of the things Kailyn eats most frequently are cocktail swords for drinks

The texture of a television remote control is probably one of her favourites, Kailyn reveals.

Describing how she goes about eating one, she says: 'I'll take a button off, and I'll put it on each side of my mouth, then I swallow it.'

The plastic items she snacks on most frequently, though, are cocktail swords, which she finds in the restaurant where she works.

'I'm a hostess at a restaurant and I get a lot of my plastic from there,' she explains. 'My favourite kind of plastics are the little cocktail swords that you get in your drink.



'On a normal, non-stressful day, it'll be a whole sword, 15 times a day.'

Kailyn admits her habit could be harmful to her health, adding: ' The fact that I am eating this much in a week is huge.'

Kailyn is by no means the weirdest subject of My Strange Addiction this season. The series opens with Nathaniel, a man from Arkansas, who admits to being sexually attracted to his car.

Concern: The teenager is aware that her plastic addiction could be harmful to her health

Also featured on the show is a woman addicted to drinking nail polish, and another who will eat 900 cat treats every day.

More strange addictions from Season Three...



THE MAN WHO IS SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO HIS CAR





Nathaniel, 27, from Arkansas, opens the new series of My Strange Addiction. He describes how he has been in an intimate relationship with his car for nearly five years. He reveals that he goes on dates with Chase, a 1998 Chevy Monte Carlo, buys it birthday gifts, and even has sex with it.

In an interview that airs tomorrow, he tells Anderson Cooper: '[I'm attracted] emotionally and sexual. It is hard to explain. 'It's just something I've had for quite a long time and I know he doesn't return the favors like I give to him as far as working on him.' He continues: 'I see him as a he, that's why I named him Chase... He's been through quite a lot during the five years we've been together.' THE WOMAN WHO DRINKS FIVE BOTTLES OF NAIL POLISH A DAY





Bertha, 23, has been drinking about five bottles of nail polish every day for the past five years. She says she can't get through the day without her nail polish fix. Unnerving footage in a trailer for the new series (below) shows her placing a nail polish brush on her tongue and licking it clean. Though one might imagine all nail polish tastes the same, Bertha reveals that the colour blue is her favourite. Any shade with glitter comes a close second. Bertha claims she needs nail polish to get through the day, but her family is concerned about the possible permanent damage she is doing to her health.



The new season of My Strange Addiction starts on February 12 at 10pm on TLC



