Gripped by a bizarre decade-long addiction to chewing sponges, a mother-of-three has revealed how she is so badly hooked, she even took a stash to hospital each time she gave birth.
Emma Snowdon's habit is so severe that her sister, Rachel Pettitt, 28, buys her sponges rather than flowers or chocolates for birthdays and Christmas, and she has sent her husband, Mark, 38, to a 24-hour garage in the dead of night to buy them.
Chomping her way through 14 household sponges a week, Emma, 36, of Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, is now determined to quit after her dentist discovered sores in her mouth.
She said: 'There's a funny side to it, but it can be awful, too, because I don't understand why it started, or why I can't stop.
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