Pregnant woman caught with heroin, and more

Pregnant woman caught with heroin

A woman who told customs officers she was three months pregnant was discovered to have $20,000 worth of heroin in her groin and intestines. Authorities said Nigerian Afolake Awoyemi, 42, waddled off a flight at New York’s JFK airport with a distended stomach under a “loose-fitting dress.” A pat-down revealed a peculiar “bulge” that was not a baby. After she spent time on the airport’s specially designed “Drug Loo” toilet, which sanitizes evidence, the bulge turned out to be 25 packets of heroin.

Shriver and Schwarzenegger try couples therapy

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To the chagrin of her friends, Maria Shriver is now in couples therapy with Arnold Schwarzenegger to try and save their marriage, says the New York Post. Shriver, 56, previously filed for divorce from Schwarzen­egger, 64, following the revelation that the womanizing former California governor had fathered a child with their housekeeper. But he’s been desperately trying to woo her back, and she’s agreed to counseling. Her friends, a source says, are “warning her to be careful,” and that Arnold “will never change.”

Falling for the Statue of Liberty

A British woman who suffers from a rare psychiatric disorder has fallen in love with the Statue of Liberty, says the London Sun on Sunday. Amanda Whittaker suffers from “objectum sexuality,” meaning she forms romantic attachments to inanimate objects; previously, she was in love with a set of drums. Now 27, Whittaker says she visits the statue whenever she can, but most of the time “she is my long-distance lover and I am blown away by how stunning she is.”