What started as a way to lose the freshman fifteen, has turned into a life threatening laxative addiction for Kimberly. In the five years since she started taking hundreds of laxatives a day, she has been hospitalized with bleeding ulcers and malnutrition.
Bianca who occasionally ate dirt as a child, now craves pottery and ashes more than food or water. When Bianca says, "that cigarette looks really good," she means she wants to eat the ashes, not take a drag. Her unusual appetite not only threatens her health, but is also starting to influence her one-year-old son, who wants to eat pottery just like Mommy.