Recently, Hollywood darling Channing Tatum on The Ellen DeGeneres Show shared that he is absolutely horrified when asked to sing in front of a large crowd. He also revealed that he hated porcelain dolls, and when the talk show host brought two such dolls, he just wasn't wearing his face.
Like any other person suffering from pediophobia or fear of dolls, Channing stated that looking like living eyes of dolls always scared him. A lot of people from a wide variety of backgrounds suffer from phobias. Let's take a look at a list of 10 famous people with weird phobias.
10. Keanu Reeves: Nobodyphobia / Scotophobia
As a professional, Keanu Reeves played several bright roles in "The Matrix" and "Speed", where he could not resist participating in several dangerous scenes. In his personal life, he dealt with the death of his girlfriend in a car accident, which happened a year and a half after the birth of their daughter.
Watching the homeless, he saw the entire dark side of life. It's funny that Keanu himself is afraid of the dark. When asked about this, he speaks of his phobia more as a philosophical issue. After all, he may simply be afraid of death.
9. Madonna: Astrophobia / Brontophobia
Madonna is an American singer and show business figure, one of the most self-assured musicians to ever step into the entertainment industry. Even at 58, she is quite capable of creating a real storm on stage with her seductive image. But what kind of fear lives in the heart of this fearless woman?
It seems that the pop diva suffers from anxiety, which makes her numb with fear. Madonna, who has spent her entire life in the midst of bright light and loud sound, is pathologically afraid of thunder and lightning.
8. Natalie Wood: Hydrophobia
The beautiful actress from the films of yesteryear is still best known for such works as West Side Story and Miracle on 34th Street. The sweet girl was afraid of water. More precisely, she was afraid to be in the water. While there is no evidence of how she got such fear, there is a legend that when she was young, her mother lured the actress onto a bridge so that she would fall into the water.
This prank may have left such a deep mark on her mind. The wicked irony is that Natalie died after drowning in the water after falling from a yacht at night.
7. Johnny Depp: Coulrophobia
The American actor and producer is widely known not only for his acting skills, but also for the wide range of looks that he tries on for his films. His characters such as Jack Sparrow, Edward Scissorhands, Willy Wonka, the Hatter and more use tons of makeup to achieve a completely unique look.
But at the same time, Johnny is afraid of clowns, mainly because of their fake smile and painted face. He does not leave the feeling that something dark and evil peeps out from under the surface of the make-up. Oddly enough, but he surrounds himself with clown attributes to scare away real evil.
6. David Beckham: Ataxophobia
This former captain of the England national football team is one of the most stylish and well-dressed men you will ever meet. Attractive in many ways, David has managed to create a truly organized life, career and family for himself. So what scares him?
It seems that his biggest fear is the fear of disorder. David Beckham is afraid of mess and slovenliness. Everything that surrounds him must be strictly organized. In addition, he revealed that he suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, and therefore wants everything to be sorted by number, size and shape, and distributed only in even numbers.
5. Woody Allen: Panophobia
A veteran of the acting and screenwriting department known for his enormous contribution to the world of cinema. But what remains a secret for the majority is that he suffers from panophobia, that is, a fear of almost everything that surrounds him. From a fear of heights, confined spaces and insects, to a fear of bright colors, elevators or sunlight, Allen has a nonspecific fear of anything that he believes may be a source of evil.
He also has the needs of the typical neurotic: the shower should be in the corner, and the banana served with breakfast should be cut into seven pieces. Woody Allen spent 40 years under the supervision of a psychoanalyst.
4. Pamela Anderson: Eyesoptrophobia
Many women look in the mirror with the desire to possess at least part of what Pamela Anderson has. She is beautiful, sultry, cheerful and talented, which has inspired thousands of women. It's amazing that she doesn't like looking at herself in the mirror because she is afraid of her reflection.
Eisoptrophobia or fear of mirrors can be based on superstitions associated with them, or on the concept that a reflection in a mirror is a reflection of a person's soul. How Pamela copes with her routine beauty treatments is beyond our understanding. Another fact is that Pamela also dislikes seeing herself on TV.
3. Nicole Kidman: Lipidopterophobia
When Nicole sees an innocent and beautiful butterfly glide past, it makes her heart beat faster. But, in reality, not in a good way. She dealt with a haunted house in The Others and managed to seduce a 16-year-old in Die in the Name. She is not afraid of reptiles, spiders, ghosts or killers.
Butterflies scare her.
She considers these creatures to be strange and creepy. Perhaps it's the furry paws or the manner of flying, fluttering from place to place, but be that as it may, the mere sight of a butterfly makes Nicole shiver. Her fear is also associated with motephobia, fear of moths.
2. Alfred Hitchcock: Ovophobia
The renowned Hollywood director and producer is well known for his thriller work such as Vertigo and Psycho. But a person who is used to shocking the audience with thrillers is shaking himself with a strange but deep fear of eggs. He finds eggs absolutely disgusting and has never tasted any of them in his life.
For him it is terribly repulsive to see the eggs. Alfred has such a strong aversion to eggs that he refuses to even get close to them.
1. Oprah Winfrey: Schikliphobia
One of the most sought-after and well-known TV presenters, Oprah Winfrey has created many shows and touched millions of lives with her hit talk show. Oprah is afraid of gum. As a young girl, Oprah saw her grandmother chew gum and then sculpt it on the furniture. In the end, she hated the sound of gum chewing, or the sight of people blowing bubbles out of them, so much so that she forbade them to be taken into the buildings where her show was filmed.
In addition to these celebrities, many famous people have suffered from some form of phobia. For example, the first President of the United States, George Washington, was tafhobic, that is, he was afraid of being burned alive, while the 34th President of the United States, Richard Nixon, suffered from nosocomophobia and a fear of hospitals.
French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte had ayrophobia, a fear of cats. Scientist Nikola Tesla had a cosmimaphobia, a fear of jewelry, in addition to misophobia, a fear of microbes. Sigmund Freud, who was a master of psychoanalysis and also studied phobias, himself suffered from hoplophobia, that is, fear of weapons and pteridophobia, an unusual fear of ferns.
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