27 year old New Orleans mother Dreka Martin is going viral across TikTok after she shared her unusual addiction with followers. Each day, Dreka eats a full 22 ounce bottle of Johnson’s Aloe & Vitamin E daily and insists she’d rather give up “normal food” than stop.
@drekaaam Morning breakfast 💖💖💖💖
♬ original sound – Dreka martin
Dreka explained the sensation of eating the chalky substance in one of her videos, Media Take Out learned, explaining that she loves how it “melts” in her mouth while she chews it for up to 40 seconds before swallowing it.
She claims the longest she’s abstained from her bizarre addiction was while pregnant with her 3-year-old son, Faiz Palmer.
Dreka spend about $3,780 this year alone on her baby powder addiction – but the mom insists she’s never experienced any health or digestive issues.
Here’s a sample video of her:
@drekaaam How you mad at me cause i love eating baby powder lol #fy #fyp #babypowder #foodie ♬ original sound – Dreka martin
Dreka claims to claims to have pica, an eating disorder characterized by compulsions to eat non-food items such as paint or chalk.
Pica is the eating or craving of things that are not food. It is classified as an eating disorder but can also be the result of an existing mental disorder. The ingested or craved substance may be biological, natural or manmade. The term was drawn directly from the medieval Latin word for magpie, a bird subject to much folklore regarding its opportunistic feeding behaviors.