It is believed that swimming is like riding a bicycle: once you learn, you will remember forever. But these celebrities are sometimes afraid to approach the water!
Rihanna
You can accept the excuse that there are no water bodies, but Rihanna, who was born in the Caribbean, can no longer hide behind this! She does not step into the water for another reason – because of ichthyophobia, or fear of water. She said that she was afraid of any sea creatures. This is what happened to her once in Barbados: “I saw a thin fish swimming next to my leg and had a panic attack. I was like frozen.”
Carmen Electra
It’s hard to believe, but the Baywatch star with the ocean in every frame can’t swim either! She is terribly afraid of any water, be it the sea or a pool, and even being near a body of water can provoke a panic attack.
Sandra Bullock
As a child, the actress swam in the sea and badly hurt her leg on a rock. Since then, she has avoided swimming for many years. However, after filming the movie “The Proposal”, when she had to spend many hours in the water, she even fell in love with diving.
John Legend
A popular singer, before the start of self-isolation, admitted that he recently had his first swimming lesson since the age of five: “My father learned to swim after 60, so I’m ahead of schedule.” Surely John will succeed because he is trained by Olympic champion Ryan Lochte!
By the way, Legend decided to learn how to swim when his own children swam the pool at the age of two. According to his wife Chrissy Teigen, “John and I didn’t have water nearby and we didn’t need to be able to swim.”
Eva Mendes
The actress is afraid of the deep, so even buying a house with a huge pool did not make her learn to swim. “I can’t swim and I don’t understand how it’s even done.”
Will Smith
The actor, who, it would seem, is not afraid of anything, does not know how to swim at all. He can go into the water, but only if he feels the bottom with his feet. When friends persuaded him to try diving, Smith wrote that he had come face to face with his biggest fear.
Marilyn Monroe
The legendary actress never learned to swim. In 1962, on the set of her last film, Something’s Got to Happen, director George Cukor showed her where to go down to the pool. “You remember that I can’t swim?” Marilyn asked each time.
Christina Ricci
The actress suffers from selachophobia – the fear of sharks. It would seem that nothing threatens her in the pool? No matter how! “I’m afraid that a door will open somewhere, a shark will come out and drag me along,” Ricci admitted in an interview.
Chloe Grace Moretz
The actress has been afraid of water since childhood. When she was offered a role in the film adaptation of The Little Mermaid, she joked that a new script was needed – a little mermaid who learns to swim. By the way, she did not play in the film.
Zane Malik
The actor has aquaphobia, that is, he is afraid of any bodies of water. But, like most of his colleagues, he bought a house with a large indoor pool.
Natalie Wood
The West Side Story star has been surrounded by bodies of water since childhood. Moreover, she met her husband Robert Wagner on a cruise ship and married him on a yacht. They lived in a big house with a swimming pool, but the actress never swam in it. Natalie’s death was also related to water: she drowned on November 29, 1981, while sailing with her husband in a small boat.
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