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Stars’ Unusual Phobias: Which Celebrity Is Afraid of Butterflies? And Who Fears Dolphins?


No arachnophobia here! From Tyra Banks to Nicole Kidman, these celebrities are afraid of less conventional critters, like butterflies, horses and dolphins.

The Oscar winner, 56, developed a phobia of the winged insects as a child in Australia when she came home and found a giant one on her front gate. To steer clear of it, she said, she “would climb over the fence, crawl around to the side of the house.” Nicole added that she’s tried to overcome her fright, to no avail: “I just don’t like the feel of butterflies’ bodies.” “Birds are so foreign to us — there’s not one body part that looks like ours,” the “Vampire” singer, 21, told Rolling Stone in 2023 of the winged beasts being her “biggest fear.” “Everyone’s all afraid about aliens and s–t.

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