Arachnophobia:
A long time ago, when I was still a young girl… maybe 7 or 8 years old, my family visited my grandparents home for Christmas. We’d stay for 3 or 4 days every year. That was our treat.
It was one early morning, I fetched a children’s book out of the shelf in our bedroom. Sat on the carpet in the middle of the room and turned the pages away. I can’t remember the book. Lots of beautiful drawings of animals. And there, in the middle of the bedroom, as my sister and cousins were still asleep, appeared, on a double page, a huge range of ferocious spiders. All hairier than the next one, all dark and scary, all huge and ugly…
I jumped back from the book, absolutely incapable of turning the pages. I just could not make myself touch the book to make the pictures disappear. I deserted the room and ran for the kitchen to have breakfast, hoping someone would pick the book and put it away forever.
Many years back, I find myself living in Australia. A hostile country where the creepy crawlies reign… Quite hilarious really. Despite my arachnophobia, I still try to look at them, learn about them and am trying everyday to conquer my fear of spiders.
…/…- Nicole Kidman is afraid of butterflies.
- Anderson has eisoptrophobia, or a fear of mirrors.
- Basinger has agoraphobia, which is the fear of open spaces.
- Madonna suffers brontophobia, the fear of thunder.
- Jennifer Aniston, Cher, Michael Jackson and Whoopi Goldberg are aviophobics (fear of flying.)
- Billy Bob Thornton is afraid of antique furniture.
- Johnny Depp is frightened of clowns , he has coulrophobia.
- Barbra Streisand is xenophobic – she is uncomfortable around strangers.
- David Beckham claims to have Ataxophobia, a fear of disorder or untidiness.
- Kelly Osbourne has Haphophobia which is the fear of being touched.
- Michael Jackson was Mysophobia – a haunting fear of contamination, infections and related diseases.
- Sheryl Crow is acrophobic – she is afraid of heights.
- Uma Thurman is claustrophobic – can’t handle being in enclosed spaces.
Damoris 