When I was 6, I asked my mom where babies came from, she gave me a very honest answer. Before she told me the truth, I thought this: If a girl ate a watermelon seed and she was in love, the watermelon seed would grow into a baby.
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you ate a watermelon seed you would grow a watermelon tree in your stomach!!!— Eskimo
- I use to believe (thanks to my Mom) that if I swallowed a watermelon seed a watermelon would grow in my belly.Anon
- If you swallowed a watermelon seed it would grow in your belly— Rachelle
- I used to beleive that if you ate a black watermelon seed a tree would grow in your stomach— anonymous
- i used to think if you ate a watermelon seed then after a while you'd become a watermelon
— olga british-girlyman - If you eat watermelon seeds a watermelon will grow in your tummy and vines will come out your earsAnon