belly buttons

I have an outie and up until 5th grade, I believed that everyone else had an outie too. The first time I saw an innie, I made fun of it. I was quickly corrected and I felt very stupid.

Anon

i used to be scared to clean my belly button with soap cuz i thought there was a small hole there that led into my body...[ so sad ]

Susan

i used to believe that if you didn't shower or clean your belly button in the shower or bath, a plant would grow from the accumulated dirt in your belly button.

i also thought that babies were born from a woman's belly button and wondered why men didn't have babies because they have belly buttons too.

sophie (age 18)

i still beleive that if you touch your belly button then it might unravel and u will bleed to death get. i really scared whenever someone touches there belly butotn and i makes me cringe to watch them, i cant touch mine either

scared

when i was younger i used to believe that the however deep your belly button was was how much extra fat you had on your stomach. i thought that if you were the weight you were supposed to be that your belly button would be completely flat with your body instead of sunken in. also if you had an outie then that meant you were too skinny. basically fat people had innies and anorexics had outies. get it? weird huh

charity

***I used to believe that if you dug deep enough into your belly button that there would be a secret compartment that had treasures in it.

C H R I S T E N

My friends thought i was an alien as my belly button is really big and they said it ate the spaceship up.

Jen

When I was little I used to think that there was a town living in my stomach.And I thought my belly button was their sewer.

That's why I didn't pick it.

Socks are EBIL

I used to believe that your belly buttons were connected to your intestines, and if you poked your belly button too hard, you could puncture your intestines and die.

Dani

When I was three I saw a National Geographic magazine featuring photos of starving children in Africa with distended abdomens. It got me to exploring my own abdomen-which appeared to have a hole in it (my belly button). I became hysterical thinking that all my food would fall out of the hole, that I would begin to stave to death and that my belly would stick out just like thise kids in the magazine. Everyone in my family had to show me their navel and assure me that their food had never fallen out through it.

robin rc

When I was 5 i thoght otties were buttons to poop and innes were a second mouth

Sam

My dad always told me this really elaborate story about how he got lost in the woods once during the winter and his belly button froze and popped off. We were talking about it recently and he said it was just a story, but I'm STILL not sure if he was really fibbing. I don't think I've ever actually seen his belly button.

Anon

I used to think my belly button was a magic compartment but ive proven myself wrong, that is NOT what is in there, ouch!

poop dawg

I used to belive every baby got there belly button by: god made us people and layed us out to dry. When he was done he poked us and said done done done all the way to the end and where he poked us was were our belly bottons became.

chelsea #7