Woman who is obsessed with plucking hairs from all parts of her body

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A woman who became obsessed with plucking her eyebrows has spoken about the addiction she says ruined her life.Charlotte Starling, 27, from Norwich, has dermatillomania – the compulsion to pluck hairs.Her condition is so serious that it has left her permanently scarred.

Charlotte Starling, 27, from Norwich has dermatillomania - the compulsion to pluck at her skin. The problem is so severe that she has been left permanently scarred

Charlotte Starling, 27, from Norwich has dermatillomania - the compulsion to pluck at her skin. The problem is so severe that she has been left permanently scarred

‘I would do anything to find a way to pluck hairs,’ she said.‘It’s like a drug and I’m an addict. It’s made me devious and dishonest because I will do anything to find a way to pluck hairs and get that sense of relief. ‘But I’m determined to control it for my family and I want to raise awareness of the condition so it is taken more seriously.’

Ms Starling says that her obsessive plucking has left her fingertips permanently disfigured and her face and breasts scarred for life.   'The delay was wholly indefensible': Coroner condemns ambulance service after one vehicle got lost and another stopped for petrol before heart attack death of baby girl

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She explained: ‘I’ve always obsessed about plucking my eyebrows.

‘I wanted to get the shape just right and would spend ages plucking out the tiny hairs until they were perfect. Like all young women I wanted to look my best.’

But her fixation took a dangerous turn when her daughter Louise, now ten, started school.

Ms Starling (pictured with her partner, Martin Thompson) started by plucking her eyebrows but then moved onto the hairs on her chest, arms and legs

Ms Starling (pictured with her partner, Martin Thompson) started by plucking her eyebrows but then moved onto the hairs on her chest, arms and legs. She says the problem began when her daughter, Louise, started school and she found herself at home all day by herself

She said: ‘I’d had a bad stomach all day and thought I was constipated. I pushed and heard a cry.

‘When I looked down the toilet there was a baby. I was so shocked I screamed for my mum and she scooped it out.’

The pair were rushed to hospital and later given a clean bill of health.