Eva Mendes, the stunning actress who is currently starring in ‘The Woman’, has revealed that she used to force people to kill spiders for her because she was so scared of them.

Eva suffered from arachnophobia – a severe fear of spiders – as a child and was so scared of the eight-legged bugs that she would demand family members to execute them if one came to near.

She would then insist on being shown the “dead carcass” of the beastie so she could relax.

Eva said: “Spiders scare me a lot, ever since I was a little girl. If I ever saw one I would have a physical reaction and just freak out. I was a real arachnophobe. I was like that up until about a year ago.

“If I saw a spider I would have to have somebody kill it and even then I could not take their word for it. I would have to see the dead carcass before I could relax.”

The 34-year-old beauty said her fear was so bad that she could not even sleep in the same room if she had seen a spider there, so she decided to seek help from a hypnotherapist to overcome her phobia.

She said: “There was no swaying clock or anything like that - so I was disappointed by that. I do not know what she did but it really helped because now I will see one and I will be cool with it.”

Eva was so pleased with the results that she is considering going back for other things.

She said (with tongue firmly in cheek): “Now I want to do it for everything. I was thinking can she help me with road rage or snacking or foul language? It is amazing.”< >< ><-->

Posted: September 15th, 2008 under Eva Mendes.
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