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  • 20 February 2012, 15:44

Pregnant woman eats local newspaper

Eating paper /Rex

A pregnant woman has told how she has developed a "bizarre craving" for eating her local newspaper.

Ann Curran, 35, of Dundee, munches her way through copies of the Dundee Evening Telegraph.

She says it is the only "only newsprint with the proper flavour" and that she "stashes shredded copies in her handbag for emergency snacks".

Ms Curran said: "I could be sitting in the bingo hall and I'll start ripping out pages of the newspaper.

"All the people look at me going, 'What is she doing?'. I tear the white bits off the edges of the pages and keep them in a bag so I can eat them while I'm shopping."

The Sunday Sun reports that she stocks up on copies of the paper during the week so she has enough to eat at the weekends.

She added: "If you shredded up lots of different bits of paper, I would know exactly which one was the Evening Telegraph.

"My pals keep papers for me but I have to buy a couple of extras to get me through the weekend."

 

what do you think?

10 comments

Julie Crumpton

7:15pm on 20/2/2012

Oh for heavens sake...........!

Olly Olly

8:08pm on 20/2/2012

Wow this baby is probably going to be born with every deformity imaginable.

Score: 3

parsons

8:46pm on 20/2/2012

It's only a paper moon and maybe a paper baby!!

Score: 1

gengisken1227

8:55pm on 20/2/2012

Lucky she's not into digital news or chewing Kindles could really give her gyp

Score: 1

Adrian Wagstaff

10:16pm on 20/2/2012

I just noticed this, not-so-strange-so-far-as-yer-usual-internet-weird-news-item-goes-article, then I thought I'd see what I think of it. What I think is, of the, possibility that ... well, I learned grammar in several comprehensive and army schools, why you ask? Never mind, what I wondered was, perhaps, this article has something to do with ... fibre? ... Like in cereals? ... Perhaps, she is really wanting to eat ... food with fibre? ... I could be wrong. Seemed like a reasonable question.

David 'Jude' Owens

2:41am on 21/2/2012

"Could I have tea with that, please?"

Richard Walker

8:16am on 21/2/2012

How can this be healthy for anyone? Surely there must be a risk to her health?

Bob Burrill

8:55am on 21/2/2012

She's going to give birth to a paper-boy...

Douglas Lee Bryenldson

12:08pm on 21/2/2012

I want to know what comes out the other end? Either she's compacted or has the cleanest bowels this side of Rigel 7.

Rachel henshaw

10:23pm on 21/2/2012

It's called non-food pica and I suffer from it! I eat sponge's! But when I was pregnant I was excessive about it! At. My boys were both born healthy and normal so it just proves it doesn't make a difference to the baby!

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