Nicole Kidman is afraid of butterflys?

[garfield hates mondays]

Movie star Nicole Kidman has a bizarre fear of butterflies she can't overcome. The Cold Mountain actress developed the terrifying phobia when she was a child in Australia and despite endless attempts to shake off the problem, she still can't stand the pretty insects. She reveals, "Sometimes when I would come home from school the biggest butterfly or moth you'd ever seen would be just sitting on our front gate. I would climb over the fence, crawl around to the side of the house - anything to avoid having to go through the front gate. I have tried to get over it (the phobia) I walked into the big butterfly cage at the American Museum of Natural History and had the butterflies on me, but that didn't work. I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don't like the feel of butterflies' bodies."

[Witch King]

That's almost as weird as aracabutraphobia (sp?)
The fear of having peanutbutter stuck to the roof of your mouth.
I guess that's why she was the girl in Batman. If it had been Butterflydude she would've said "no way, Jose."

[IyakaMae]

Although they are in the same catagory I wouldn't put a moth in the same league as a butterfly. Now that right there is one scary insect.
: shudder :

What was the freaky movie with the giant moth? What is that scary legend about the moth? Or am I thinking of the same thing??

If we have learned anything about me today is that Moth's scare me. So do moth balls. That doesn't sound right!!

[MrSoul]

Do you mean Godzilla vs. Mothra?

[Promithcuous]

Originally posted by IyakaMae
If we have learned anything about me today is that Moth's scare me. So do moth balls. That doesn't sound right!!
I can accept that people have fears about certain things, but to be affraid of an insect's testicles???

[Witch King]

Yeah.
That sounds like Mith.
:rolleyes

[IyakaMae]

Originally posted by Mithrandir
I can accept that people have fears about certain things, but to be affraid of an insect's testicles???

If I can see the testicles there has to be a problem.

[Promithcuous]

Yup, you should put down the magnifying glass or change the prescription of your glasses

[Justin]

Huntsman spiders are pretty scary, and big enough to see their knackers surely.

But butterflies? No way. Moths? Maybe. Do you know that vampires can take the shape of a moth, along with bats or wolves?

:lol

[Promithcuous]

Of course, but no-one ever suspects the butterfly.

[Justin]

but butterflies are so pretty...

no bad in them.

The butterfly (didn't) do it.

:D

[ashburnham]

OMG, just found this!!!

What is wrong with butterflies? And to be honest, how often do you actually come into contact with them?

Come on Nicole, surely Tom was more scary?!

[Volante]

...bump from the past. Nothing constructive to add, but those walk-in butterfly enclosures kick ass. Incidentally, the only two I've ever been to were both in Australia...

[Abscynthe]

Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, Georgia, has a fantastic one.

[Matt]

agreed, absy!

[Volante]

Never been to Georgia...actually I don't really go to zoos often...but when you're overseas and have the time, of course you go.

[Sansamark01]

That woman just has to be wrong in the head!

[Captain Murphy]

That woman just has to be wrong in the head!
Ban.

Please

[Miss Inserts]

Yeah huntsmen spiders are scary and big and they are hard to kill l like spraying them with fly spray l hate trying to kill them by hand.
Butterflys are such pretty things.

[Volante]

Let's never speak of the huntsman spiders ever. ever. again. I'd rather french kiss an inland taipan than *SEE* one of those huntsmans.

[Miss Inserts]

They are even bigger in the australian bush along country roads.

[snoozebutton]

That's almost as weird as aracabutraphobia (sp?)
The fear of having peanutbutter stuck to the roof of your mouth.


Just for future reference, it's arachibutyrophobia. :thumbup

[Chaplain]

I used to know a guy whose job it was to count butterflies. Damn, I wanted that job.

[Miss Inserts]

Hey Nicole Kidman is in Australia with baby Sunday they arrived yesterday they are visting Nicoles parents.

[GodNnelg]

Someone quick, fetch some butterflies and release them in her area!