Most of us grew up being told not to pick our noses in front of others, to say please when asking for something, and to wash our hands before eating. Years later, some of these learned habits have stuck with us along with others we picked up along the way.
Celebrities aren’t any different, and they’ve got sneaky habits they secretly indulge. Contrary to the perfect image they maintain, you'd be surprised at the number of nail biters, shower skippers, and truth seekers in Hollywood. Let’s get right to it and look at some of the bad habits our favorite stars can’t seem to shake off.
Sophia Vergara Has A Coffee Habit
Everyone has their own habits, and for plenty of people, a cup of joe is what they need to start their day. Anyone who claims to love early mornings is simply lying in our opinion, and us regular folk need some motivation to face the day.
Sophia Vergara finds the same delight we do from a cup of coffee, but her love for the drink falls on the extreme side. Apparently, she won’t utter a word to her husband unless she’s downed a cup or two. We imagine the quiet mornings must get loud at some point in their household.
Helen Mirren Curses Like A Sailor
Several actors fall into the trap of being typecast, and audiences end up associating the actual person off the screen with the characters they play. Helen Mirren is the perfect example, for she's always being cast as upper class or prim and proper characters.
That’s why we are finding it hard to wrap our heads around her terrible habit—cursing like a sailor. This isn’t just a one-time thing either. She’s actually known to let the words run loose on several occasions. It leaves us wanting to see her play a character that’s more like her hidden persona.
Weird Al Yankovic Is Crazy About Hawaiian Shirts
For a man who is widely accepted for his strangeness, Weird Al Yankovic proves that he can get even weirder. His bizarre behavior once extended to his contracts. He required that for every concert he graced, he should get a new Hawaiian shirt.
We can just picture the hundreds of Hawaiian shirts he must have in his closet because he’s performed at a countless number of concerts. Yankovic got the habit under control, eventually, and he removed the “Hawaiian shirts clause” from his contracts. We bet that someday his collection will fetch a decent fortune when it turns up online.
Tom Hanks Hoards Typewriters
Authors have a profound appreciation for typewriters. In fact, a select few consider them works of art. Tom Hanks is one of them, but his fascination with typewriters falls on the obsessive side. He picked the habit on his climb to fame, and he told NPR that his collection started growing when he had money to spend on them.
Hanks didn’t stop there. In 2014, he announced that he was penning down a publication about the old inventions. He’s said to own 250 of them. We know that he probably has room to store them in his lavish mansion, but there’s a thin line between collecting items and becoming a hoarder.
Kate Gosselin Struggles With Public Speaking
There are different ways that celebrities rise to fame apart from appearing in films or being star athletes. Kate Gosselin made her way into the spotlight when she gave birth to six babies in one labor. The miracle birth soon earned her a reality show, and in turn, she became the star we now know.
Most of us can relate to her quirk, which has to do with public speaking. She usually interjects her interviews with an “um” pause trying to collect her thoughts. Public speaking doesn’t come naturally for her, but the key is to practice.
Britney Spears Can’t Get Enough Of Junk Food
We all find guilty pleasure in all the delicious treats we know we shouldn’t eat excessively. Think of all the times you’ve vowed to have just one slice or piece and ended up eating the entire pie. It’s a bit encouraging to know that we all fight that battle, including celebrities like Britney Spears.
Sadly, we’ve witnessed her downhill battle with junk food because her weight gain has been highly publicized in the past. She particularly loves chocolate chip cookies, spaghetti, and brownies too much. Her high energy rehearsals and shows have always helped her keep the pounds at bay.
Stephen King Is Addicted To Cheesecake
We say, let the man who has penned literary masterpieces like Misery and The Green Mile have his cake and eat it. We obviously mean the figures going in his bank because the man just can’t seem to stop conjuring up incredible horror publications that are adapted to hit movies.
King has one weakness, though, and it’s cheesecake. In fact, we can thank the copious amounts of cheesecakes he’s dug into over the years for the masterpieces he’s published. He’s said to indulge in a slice before starting his writing sessions. We don’t particularly dislike this less than healthy habit.
Jim Carey Is Very Passionate
It’s safe to assume that all actors are passionate about their craft and that they continuously work to hone their skills. We’ve heard of method acting, which basically aims at having a character deliver an emotionally expressive and sincere performance.
Jim Carey is such an actor. He’s said to immerse himself completely into his characters to the point of fixation. Once he gets off the set, he continues acting like his role. People who know him personally were treated to quite the scene when he was filming Man on the Moon. After all, he fully immersed himself in Andy Kaufman's character. On the plus side, he is highly entertaining.
Kristen Stewart Has A Lip Biting Problem
Several things might tell you that someone is suffering from a bout of anxiety. The common telltale signs include biting of the nails and biting down on the lower lip. Kristen Stewart isn’t immune from catching a case of nerves and when she does, she bites her lip.
Interestingly, Bella Swan, the leading character she portrayed in the Twilight series of movies, had the same habit as written in the novels based on the films. Medical News Today warns that repeated lip-biting could lead to the development of painful sores, inflammation, and redness of the lips.
Ariana Grande Is A Knuckle Cracker
It’s loudly annoying and according to the Harvard Health blog, it may just be harmful as well. We are talking about knuckle cracking, which most of us resort to when trying to release some tension from the area.
For people like Ariana Grande, this simple act has become a habit they’ve held onto. Repeating the action vigorously has resulted in a few incidents of tendon injuries or dislocation. Harvard Health agrees that the rare cases of harm linked to knuckle cracking aren’t enough to get the addicts to drop the highly annoying habit.
Eminem Demands Complete Darkness
It doesn’t take being scared of the dark to not be particularly fond of darkness. A man who can’t relate to those who fear the dark is Eminem. He’s even said to demand to have his room completely pitch black so that he can catch some shut-eye.
That means that the staff at the 5-star hotels where he puts up tours have the added task of blacking out windows and any other spaces that allow light to stream into his room. We wonder what kind of window treatment he has at his residence to accord him this level of darkness.
Kylie Jenner Is Obsessed With Social Media
This might be a case of preaching to the choir because all of us who keep plugged into the Social Media world enable the addicts. Kylie Jenner made it on Forbes as the youngest self-made female billionaire all thanks to her line of beauty products.
She successfully mastered the art of using her Social Media platforms to push her beauty line. With 163 million followers on Instagram alone, she has to keep posting photos and videos to engage her fans. It’s quickly spiraled into an obsession that she can’t afford to give up now.
Van Halen Can’t Stand Brown M&Ms
Most Celebrities earn their status through hard work, and it isn’t uncommon for them to reach a level where they can demand whatever they want. They're even part of their contractual terms! A few are known to have let the fame get over their heads with “diva demands.”
Van Halen might have gone on hiatus in 2015 but we still remember a few of their demands. They weren’t fans of M&Ms, and since they always asked to have the treats backstage, they demanded that all the brown-colored ones should be removed. We wonder what issue they had with the delicious brown treats.
Adele Is Addicted To Chewing Gum
Chewing gum is yet another terrible habit some of us grew up being told to avoid. Not that chewing gum is the problem, the issue comes when interacting or talking to others while chewing. Not to mention the nasty sounds made by loud chewers who are oblivious of their surroundings.
Adele was under the spotlight in 2012 for accepting a Grammy while chewing gum. She apparently does it all the time, and whether she’s working or not, she’ll be busy chewing a stick of gum. All we can say is that she still belts out award-winning hits, and that’s all that matters.
Simon Cowell Is A Tanning Addict
Simon Cowell has a great command of the music industry, and he’s responsible for popularizing several talent shows. He has also helped several singers get a footing through his record label, Syco. It seems like he’s also succumbed to the pressures of the industry that place emphasis on looks.
He turns out to be a tanning addict, and he has invested a chunk of his fortune on this habit. Cowell can easily jet off to exotic sunny locations to work on his tan, but he chooses to go for something else. He has a tanning salon right at home so that he can tan whenever he wants.
Nicolas Cage Is A Spend Thrift
There’s actually something like spending too much even if you are worth millions. Nicholas Cage has a well-known spending habit that has seen him flirt with bankruptcy in the past. He has spent his hard-earned fortunes on luxuries like two private islands, vehicles, and high-end merchandise.
Cage makes it on this list, however, because of his questionable collecting habit. He isn’t your typical art collector as he particularly has a fondness for dinosaur skulls and octopuses. The habit also proved quite costly and set him back by about $100 million. That’s how he ended up with a $6.3 million debt owed to the IRS.
David Beckham Is Obsessively Compulsive
The National Institute Of Mental Health categorizes obsessive-compulsive disorder or OCD as a mental condition. It is characterized by reoccurring and uncontrollable thoughts or behaviors. The condition is accompanied by varying symptoms like fear of germs or the need for symmetry.
David Beckham suffers from OCD, and in his case, he just can’t function when things aren’t even or in perfect symmetry. That means that he has to have an even number of just about every item you can think of around him. We are not too sure if it translates to the number of kids he has because it just so happens that he has an even four.
Bono Has A Lucky Hat
Superstitions run rife in Hollywood, and several stars have certain routines they maintain or items they keep closeby for good luck. Tennis champion Serena Williams has to have a pair of shower sandals with her on the court. Heidi Klum walks around with her baby teeth stashed in a small bag.
Bono’s item isn’t exactly out of the norm, only that he goes to extensive lengths to keep it by his side. He has a lucky hat that he once had flown to Milan from London on a $1.7K tab. We are not too sure if the hat itself cost as much, but he just couldn’t afford to lose it.
Christian Bale Tests Superstitions
Besides the folks that believe in “green little men” within Hollywood, there are also those who are highly superstitious, as we’ve mentioned. These are the people who wouldn’t be caught stepping on cracks or walking under ladders.
Christian Bale likes to test superstitious limits, though, and he’s even more inclined to do so if he’s warned against it. Bale rubbishes the consequences tied to just about every superstition we’ve grown up hearing. Things like a black cat crossing his path don't phase him one bit. The man is still standing, and we hope that he’s right.
Pamela Anderson Hates Mirrors
Still, in the realm of superstitions, there are several surrounding mirrors in general. Breaking one is said to bring seven years worth of bad luck and if you can’t see a reflection on them it means the subject doesn’t have a soul.
Pamela Anderson’s case is a bit different. She doesn’t like the reflection she sees on them because she has Eisoptrophobia. The condition is essentially an irrational fear of reflective objects. It’s often grounded by the same superstitions surrounding mirrors. We’d love a sneak peek inside Anderson’s house because she must have decorated it to exclude all kinds of reflective surfaces.
Lady Gaga Believes In The Supernatural
We’ve already established that Hollywood harbors a number of truth-seekers and those who believe in life beyond what we see. Lady Gaga is convinced that humans live amongst spirits, and she’s well-equipped to protect herself from our supernatural friends.
She splurged $50K on an electromagnetic field detector, which essentially picks up on changes in the surrounding magnetic fields. That’s supposed to indicate that there are other-worldly beings of the ghost persuasion hanging around. Let’s just say that even if ghosts actually walk or float amongst us, we wouldn’t particularly want to know that they exist.
Steve Martin Doesn’t Sign Fresh Autographs
In our modern world where taking selfies with our favorite stars is valued more than autographs, true fans know that a John Hancock is essentially priceless. Autographs are amongst the easiest personalized items to get directly from a celebrity.
Usually, stars are very generous when it comes to signing autographs, except for Steve Martin. It doesn’t mean that a chance meeting with Martin means walking away without an autograph, only that the copies he hands out aren’t fresh. He printed out autographed cards which he is more than happy to hand out to fans.
Lindsay Lohan Is Perpetually Tardy
Lindsay Lohan has had troubles, which have been the subject of celebrity headlines over the years. Besides her struggles with addiction, she also has a reputation of frequently being tardy. She couldn’t even turn up for her multiple legal hearings on time, and it didn’t help her sentencing in any way.
She has also caused several film release delays because she just couldn’t bother to turn up early for filming. Director Paul Schrader, who worked with her on the Canyons, even branded her as a needy melodramatic diva. He explained that she had caused the production delays because of her constant tardiness and absences.
Jennifer Lopez Doesn’t Like Color
Jennifer Lopez is on the list of celebrities known for their extra diva demands. She started out as a background dancer for Janet Jackson and New Kids On The Block, and worked her way up to her current status. That’s why she can make demands as excessive as they seem.
She apparently demands that her staff don’t make eye contact with her. Also, she only gets around in limousines even over the shortest of distances. Her biggest one yet would be her dislike for color backstage, and she asks that everything should be white. It translates to the decor including drapes, flowers, couches, and tables.
Olivia Wilde Is A Nail Biter
Truth be told, most of us have bitten off our nails on one occasion or another. It isn’t a bad habit we would consider terribly extreme, though. But when it’s a serial issue, then we must raise our eyebrows. We all know how the nails of perpetual biters look like.
Olivia Wilde is one of the culprits who share this habit with other famous nail biters like Britney Spears. Wilde wouldn’t be caught showing off the unsightly results in public, because she chooses to get as many manicures as she wants to hide the evidence.
Olivia Munn Pulls Her Eyelashes Out
According to WebMD, people who suffer from Trichotillomania have an uncontrollable urge to pull at the hair on their scalp, eyebrows, and eyelashes. The impulsive control disorder is often linked to anxiety, and it is treatable with behavior therapy.
Olivia Munn suffers from this condition, and given the stressful nature of her profession as an actress, the disorder has gotten the best of her. She explained that pulling at her eyebrows is her way of coping with anxiety. Munn’s condition has spiraled so out of control that she has to carry sets of fake lashes with her wherever she goes.
Brad Pitt Skips Bathing
One look at Mr. Pitt and he’s easily described as an adonis. If anything, most of the roles he’s taken up in Hollywood have cast him as a charming and irresistible protagonist. In fact, we’d say that he always comes off as a man you’d like to get close to until you hear about his terrible habit.
Pitt supposedly isn’t a fan of baths, and on most occasions, he would rather skip taking one entirely. The grapevine has it that he can go for weeks without cleansing his body. The plus side—if one can call it that—is that he freshens up using wet wipes.
Cameron Diaz Isn’t Big On Deodorant
It seems like just yesterday when Cameron Diaz commanded the big screen appearing in films like The Mask and There’s Something About Mary. In 2014, she quit the industry, and she’s been churning out books on wellness since then.
That brings us to her quirk, which is not a big one in our books. Diaz isn’t too fond of deodorant. In fact, she admitted that she’s kept off the stuff for more than two decades. Diaz stands with the countless articles written over the years claiming that deodorant, and antiperspirants, in general, are bad for you.
Matthew McConaughey Also Doesn’t Like Deodorants
The picture is now starting to shape up, and we now think that there’s a society of deodorant opposers in Hollywood. Matthew McConaughey joins Diaz in disliking antiperspirants and with some of the action-packed films he’s featured on, we just have to wonder.
McConaughey isn’t exactly opposed to the products because they aren’t good for you. It's just because the ladies love his natural scent. Those were his exact words, but Kate Hudson thinks otherwise. She’s said to have given him some natural form of the product to attempt to mask the smell. We hear that her efforts were in vain because, for McConaughey, old habits die hard.
Orlando Bloom Avoids Laundry Days
The rest of us have to keep up with chores like doing our laundry with a day set aside each week for the arduous task. Being a celebrity allows you to have someone else do your laundry, but if you are Orlando Bloom you choose to avoid the chore completely.
Bloom can afford to buy new clothes each week, and that’s exactly what he does instead of concerning himself with laundry. His ex Miranda Kerr spilled the beans of this aspect of his personal life, saying that she would often have to remind him to wash his clothes.
Robert Pattinson Isn’t A Hair Care Fan
We imagine that men have it easy when it comes to keeping up with hair maintenance. We think that it’s even easier for celebrities because they have a battalion of people to help them keep up with appearances.
When it comes to Robert Pattinson, we have to look twice after finding out that he skimps out on his hair care needs. Pattinson doesn’t particularly like washing his hair, and he can go for six weeks before lathering some shampoo on it. The cringe-worthy information about his personal grooming habits has made us view him in a new light.
Megan Fox Doesn’t Flush (?)
There are Megan Fox fans who would be thrilled just to know that they have shared the same toilet she’s used. When they hear about her not so great habit of forgetting to flush the toilet after use, they must just think twice.
Men are often the culprits when it comes to leaving the toilet seat up or forgetting to get rid of the evidence of their business at the loo. Perhaps Fox is just very busy, and such things simply escape her mind. We are more interested in finding out who snitched on her, though.
Christina Aguilera Forgets To Wash Her Hand
Christina Aguilera joins Megan Fox on the list of celebrities with lousy bathroom behaviors. In her case, she forgets to wash her hands after a trip to the toilet. A bathroom attendant is the one who spilled the beans after spotting Aguilera making a beeline from the cubicle out of the facility door.
It doesn’t end there. She supposedly had the courtesy to stop and shake hands with one of her fans minutes after leaving the toilet. It’s hard to picture going about her life with this terrible toilet habit, and we choose to brush it off as a one-time mistake.
Snooki Recycles Her Cat Litter
We want to believe that three types of people exist in the world: those who keep pets, those who don’t, and the ones who see gold in their cat litter. Snooki is both a pet lover and an opportunity seeker who has proven that cat litter is apparently much more than just refuse.
As outrageous as it may sound, Snooki supposedly uses her cat’s waste to exfoliate. This is an unsettling thought that calls for much more than therapy to shake off. On the upside, at least she’s got flawless skin dredged out of it!
Jennifer Aniston Is Economical On Hair Maintenance
Beauty is a big part of being a celebrity, and it’s the reason why most turn to cosmetic enhancement procedures. There are even collections of luxurious beauty products that are infused with precious stones like diamonds specifically formulated for the rich and wealthy.
Snooki isn’t the only one with peculiar beauty habits, and while Jenifer Aniston is a low maintenance kind of girl, she also has an eyebrow-raising hair care routine. She makes her own hair styling products using a special ingredient—her sweat glands. It gives a whole new meaning to wanting Jennifer Aniston’s hair!
Katy Perry Brushes Too Much
One of the other pieces of advice we grew up with is that we should always keep up with good dental habits. That means brushing our teeth in the morning and before we go to bed. Toss in a couple of visits to the dentist, and you are doing everything it takes to maintain your set of pearly whites.
However, celebrities like Katy Perry take it to the extreme and brush their teeth more than the amount times needed. We are talking about brushing her teeth at least six times daily! Brushing too often isn’t actually a good thing, and in some cases, it may be as bad as not brushing your teeth entirely.
Jessica Simpson Doesn’t Brush Her Teeth Too Often
Jessica Simpson’s oral hygiene is the exact opposite of Katy Perry’s. From what we gather, Simpson is not on the list of celebrities who spare no cost to get the perfect smile. She isn’t particularly fond of brushing her teeth. At best, she’ll brush her pearly whites a couple of times each week, but how she maintains a dazzling smile is puzzling.
Some of us get nightmares thinking of the plaque building around our teeth when we sleep without brushing, but not Simpson. Fortunately, if she should ever have problems with her teeth, she can afford to get it fixed without a sweat because she’s worth $200 million.
Johnny Depp Has A Stash Of Barbies
The man who gave life to the rough and tumble character of Captain Jack Sparrow in The Pirates of the Caribbean films wouldn’t spark you as someone who collects Barbie Dolls. He doesn’t collect regular Barbies, though. He goes for the ones in the likeness of legends like Elvis and Marilyn Monroe.
His fascination started when he would spend time playing with his children. Depp even bragged that he has a pretty good eye when picking these toys, and that’s why he keeps feeding the habit. He reportedly also has an obsession with other less than ordinary collectibles like insects and fake mustaches.
Alicia Silverstone’s Child Is Fed Uniquely
Having a child is truly a blessing, and whether you're rich or not, parenting doesn’t come easy. There’s also the matter about postpartum depression, which affects an estimated 900,000 women in the United States annually. Fortunately, Alicia Silverstone didn’t have it rough when she welcomed her son in 2011.
She even fully embraced her new role as a mother, but some of her parenting tactics were unusual. She would feed her child by chewing up his food and then giving him the mushed up product. It’s something that’s often observed with birds and their offspring, but we don’t see too many humans adopting this feeding method.
Tom Cruise Couldn’t Get Enough Of Suri’s Sonogram
Tom Cruise had two children with his second wife, Nicole Kidman, by way of adoption. However, he couldn’t contain himself when Katie Holmes was expecting their first child. The image that comes to mind is his interview with Oprah. There, he jumped up and down the couch, declaring his undying love for Holmes.
His love for Suri was pretty intense, even before she was actually born. Cruise reportedly shelled out $200K for a personal sonogram machine so that he could check up on Suri every single day. Sadly, he doesn't check up on her as much nowadays.