#36: They’re Taking Over the World
Christina Ricci became famous for playing the morose Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family. Although Wednesday adored horror and feared nothing, the actress can’t boast the same thing. She’s only human, after all, and she admits that there are things that spook her, like houseplants. We would have expected something more morbid from the actress.
Christina’s fear is known as botanophobia. She says she can’t deal with seeing plants inside a person’s house because they are dirty and don’t belong in the clean indoors. She doesn’t know where this fear began, and psychologists don’t have a lot of data on this rare phobia. We have a feeling Wednesday would be disappointed.