When I was a young girl, I was curious why/how my mother had so many freckles. She told me when she was little she swallowed a jar full of pennies, and that's why she has so many freckles. I believed it for years, and freaked out when my own freckles began appearing.
A childhood belief about appearance
others believed things like this
- When I was small my Grandfather told me that the reason I had freckles was from throwing pebbles in the sewer!— All Grown Up Now!
- I used to believe that if you put cow poo on your face, it would get rid of my freckles. — Col x
- I used to believe that freckles were angel kisses.Anon
- I used To believe that if you picked your freckles you would get skin cancer— Janella
- if you have freckles it is because you didnt wash your face well enoughAnon
- When my grandma was little, her dad would tell her that the freckles on her face and arms were fly crap.Anon