When i was little I asked my grandmother how we get belly buttons. She told me as a joke that when your born there is an indian that pokes your stomach and he makes a belly button. Haha. i believed it for a LONG time. haha.

Christian

i used to believe that my belly button was a screw that when unscrewed all the air would come out of you and you would be flat.i still hate it when my kid tries to unscrew my belly button

a guy

I thought that the belly button was sort of like a doorway. I thought that babies came out of there, which was a common belief.

But one day when I was about four, I was eating mashed potatoes at dinner and a little chunk fell onto my belly button. I didn't feel it, but when I looked down, I panicked. "My belly button's LEAKING!"

abracadaver

I was once told that my belly button kept my body together and that if i 'untied' it my arms and legs would just flop everywhere like jelly

Anon

i use to beleive that belly buttons was a hole where you had a button that you wee born with and the button was the color of your birthstone so i used to try and look inside my belly button to find the left overs that the doctor forgot to take out when i was born

Anon

someone could unscrew my belly button, and if they did, my head would fall off

Anon

I was told (repeatedly by my father) that if you play with your bellybutton you would bleed to death. This has had a horrific effect on my sex life.

Stinky

i thought that outies were an on/off button

mr.bob

I used to believe that if I played around with my belly button too much, it would come undone and all my insides would fall out.

PhantomLover007

i used to beliveve my outie was an eyeball

mr.x

I agree, when I was a kid showing your belly button was taboo it seemed. Had to becovered at all time and in fact they WERe aribrushed out of pics in store catalogues !

Chris

My mom told me that if i play wiv my bellybutton or anyone elses the knot would unbutton and come undone! i tryed chasing a girl mate i had when i was 5-6 and tryed untying hers!

Mike

I used to belive that my belly botton held my skin on that's why it was called a belly botton and if it came undone my skin would fall off.

Nancy

My little sister who is now in her mid-twenties is not the brightest star in the sky. When we were in our early twenties I saw that she had some dirtyness in her belly button and asked her what it was and why it was so dirty. She said, " Oh that's just my umbilical cord." Apparently, she never washed out her belly button thinking that the nastiness was her umbilical cord. How gross is that?!

CMG

I used to believe that when someone pushed your belly button, your arms and legs would fall off.

Anon

When I was very young, my mother told me that if I didn't clean my belly-button in the bath, dirt would collect and potatoes would start growing out of it. I made sure it keep it nice and clean.

Marti