I used to believe that if I could/would untie my belly knot, that there would be a hole there and I would be able to inside my body.

Megan

i used to believe if i touch my belly button i'd die and my intestines will fall out.i was really afraid of touching it.

hajer

up until recently i thought if you messed with your bellybutton it would get red and infected and you would die. i thought this beacuse when i was 3 i kept scratching the inside of my bellybutton and i t get red, my mom put hyrogen peroxide in it "so it would get infected"

jill

I used to believe that my bellybutton was acutally called a "chickens bum" I have no idea where this came from lol.

Brooke

i thought that your belly botton was were babies came from.

amy11

My mom always used to say,"Don't scratch your belly button or it will bleed." So I when we were at church, and everyone was singing, I started screaming and balling so loud everyone stopped singing. It was because my brother had poked my belly button (which at the time seemed close enough to scratch) and I though blood was going to start pouring out of my belly! I was terrified!!!! I never lived it down.

bloody belly

Ever since i was little my belly button has been inbetween an inie and an outie, and i showed my friend. Me and her were about 7 and she lied saying that her aunt's naval looked like mine but when she started getting older it kept growing and growing until it was a foot long (as she demonstrated with her arm.) After that I would cry at night thinking how gross my belly botton will be when I get older.

Stephanie

My dad told me when I was about six that if you unscrewed your belly button then your bum would fall off....This was a constant source of worry for me for quite some time!

Kate

untill i turned 10 i thought if i touched my belly button all my guts would come out because thats what my step dad and uncle told me then my uncle (whose only a few years older than me)would chase me around the house and try to poke my bellybutton! lol

Anon

When I was about 5 or 6, my Dad would tell me that if I played with my belly button too much (which I did a lot) that I would fly around the room (like when you let go of a balloon). Now 8 years later, I'm still suspicious...

KT

When I was about 7 I was lying on the couch, watching tv, and I guess my shirt was up enough so that my navel was visible. My Uncle came over to me and said "Aha! I can see your belly button!". Then he poked it and told me I was going to explode in 10 years. I freaked out, crying until he told me it was a joke.

Doug

ok so when i was little i used to think that if u pluged ur belly button u couldn't breathe so i would never let any1 touch my belly button!!! hahaha

Anon

I used to believe I had a fuzzy monster living in my belly button, until my friend came and plucked the lint out while I was sleeping!

Bryan

My father told me that the reason that we had belly buttons was so that we could put salt in them for eating celery in bed. I believed him until I was about nine years old.

Anon

My Opa (grandfather) used to threaten me with two things: unscrewing my nipples, which would make my arms fall off, and unscrewing my belly button, which would make my bottom fall off. Of course, I was terrified! :)

Anon

I used to think navel was a dirty word. Somehow thought it was where babies came from. So whenever I heard the words "navel orange" or "naval" (pertaining to the Navy) I thought people were talking dirty.

T. Koenig

My dad had a little beer belly, and I noticed that his belly button used to gather lint. I'd periodically remove it, and told him that I was pretty sure that was what belly buttons were for--collecting lint.

sandy

Your umbilical cord was attached to mom's belly button (in vitro) and that was how you got food until you were born

Anon

This one's about my sister: She used to think her belly-button was going to burst open,and like unravel.She'd constantly cry about it.

Anonymous