I am amazed that the average TV watcher is so damn gullible. Most "reality" programs in the modern day are scripted nonsense. if you watch carefully and critically, you can easily spot this. Stop letting yourself be lied to, and stop being a vessel for advertisers who hope you get off on fake sensationalism. Wake up!

After watching some of the show, some of the assumed strange addictions were just unrealistic as if these people are being paid to claim these outrageous acts. Seriously, who would even think about eating chalk.

I know for a fact that this show is fake. Especially episode with the tanning addiction, the girl is a paid Hollywood actress. I was with her in line at the Price is Right, she was picked because she knows how to do an audition. Don't believe it? Check out her youtube page where she admits she is not addicted to tanning.

Most TLC's "reality shows" are staged, and it's pretty obvious actually, do you think people would admit doing weird shit on national TV? Some people would, no doubt, but most of the people(probably some are real like the one who eat stone) on the shows are clearly acting (e.g. the one who's obsessed with inflatable)....

this has really gone out the door as far a realism is concerned, the idea that they would even right this off as real is insulting and ridiculous. I mean look at the video attached watch it and after, ask yourself "Is This 'Actually' real?". another instance is a young lady drinking gasoline, if you do some research you'd know that ingesting gasoline consecutively each day would rip you to shreds from the inside out. to everyone who believes that this show could be real, please.... take some time and REALLY LOOK at what you're watching. You'd be surprised what you Realize

I watched the new season's special on Living Dolls. The two girls are TOTALLY scripted, why the hell would have Emily gone out looking for a job dressed like that, she knows she has no chance of being hired, especially in a garage. And seriously, asking her friends how far they'd go time look like a doll... These girls are into Lolita fashion, not into being living dolls. Some Lolitas don't even wear makeup and will never undergo plastic surgery. That question was scripted to make Emily say she'd gladly change her features if she was able to, an her answer was most likely scripted too. The part where she introduces herself to her family saying she's no longer Emily and she's now Luna Lovely is utterly ridiculous. Venus has acknowledged on her public Facebook that most of the content was scripted or manipulated to make her seem like what TLC wanted.

I believe so. This one lady had an addiction to drinking paint, and haven't even been to a hospital or die. She's has been droning paint for at least a few years, between that time she should have been in some type of critical condition or even dead!

Yes it's fake because even the Wikipedia article says that it's actors portraying people with these problems.

While some of the addictions are believable (eating chalk or toilet paper), some of them are clearly made up just to see how many imbeciles believe that crap. There was a guy that was in love with his car to the point that he was having sex with it (they did not detail exactly how that worked, but I think we could imagine a number of ways and I hope he uses HEET gas additive for his tank). I generally try to avoid ANYTHING that airs on TLC (I remember when that used to be The Learning Channel and had educational shows on it) but the wife watches it. I generally don't believe most of the crap they show other than the irritating midgets and dwarves shows.

Well I've seen about 8 episodes now, many of these addictions are almost certainly fatal. listening carefully to what is being said during the episodes, there is inconsitancies with the descriptions of their addictions and habbits throughout the episode. example: "Natasha's addiction started 7 years ago when she started eating chalk, 2 years later she started eating dry wall" Later in the episode: "Natasha has been eating Dry Wall for 7 years" This show may have some real cases of addiction, but for certain some of these are not real.

I am watching the first episode on netflix. The girl with the hair dryer addiction. The therapist she is seeing is a therapist, but the name given is not her name and the location is not Texas. I know this because I saw the same therapist for Adult ADD. The office is the same as when I saw her, but in Florida!

I'm watching the drain hair/drywall episode right now. The drain hair guy's girlfriend couldn't keep a straight face during his "confession". Although before that scene appeared, I was already browsing this site because the drywall woman didn't ring true, either. I don't think the show is faked, per se (will have to check out the claim of the tan faker) but I think some people fake an addiction because they want to be on TV.

I wouldn't say all of them are fake.

what i think is real

addicted to drinking urine

addicted to body-building

addicted to balloons

what i think is fake

addicted to pretending to be furniture

addicted to sniffing gasoline for 30 years

addicted to drinking gasoline