Real-life vampire gets ‘aroused’ by drinking her boyfriend’s BLOOD and has avoided the sunlight for 20 years
Georgina Condon developed a taste for blood at the tender age of 12
MEET the real-life vampire who feeds off her boyfriend’s blood, avoids the sunlight and has fangs for teeth.
Georgina Condon, 39, from Brisbane, Australia, has drunk the blood of willing “donors” for more than 20 years.
The self-employed make-up artist developed a taste for the red stuff at the tender age of 12.
“Like everyone else, I had more than my fair share of cuts and grazes while growing up,” she told .
“But unlike most kids, I developed a strong impulse to taste the blood from my wounds.
“It was only when I started to see vampires in TV and in movies that I realised what I was one too.”
Georgina cuts Zameal’s skin with a sterile razor blade to get the blood and drinks from it “every two weeks” – although she’d “happily have it every day”.
She would not feed off someone else and considers that to be “cheating”.
Just as she’s found a loving and accepting partner, Georgina’s family – even her vegetarian sister - have also embraced her alternative lifestyle.
“My family love me — they don’t think I’m mad!” she said.
“Often when you’re different and you put yourself out there, people can react negatively.
"My family have actually encouraged me, they’ve said: ‘good on you, good on you for speaking out about it.”
But her dress sense and enthusiasm for drinking blood that are Georgina’s only vampire traits.
“I suffer from a condition called solar dermatitis, which is an allergy to intense sunlight,” she said.
“I get a really itchy rash if I’m in strong sunlight.
“It’s a shame as I really love to swim at the beach, I love it — even as a kid I was in the swim squad. So now I just have to do it indoors!”
Before she turns 40, Georgina plans to get some “permanent” fangs and to pen a vampire novel.
While she enjoys the popular television shows True Blood and The Vampire Diaries, she said the literature and fictional nature can mask the true essence to being a vampire.
“I want to express it well, I don't want it to end up you sounding silly as people often get strange when I talk about it,” she said.
“It's not like in a movie - I don't hide in the shadows and jump out at people.”
WHAT IS THALASSEMIA?
*Thalassaemia is the name for a group of inherited conditions that affect a substance in the blood called haemoglobin
*People with the condition produce either no or too little haemoglobin, which is used by red blood cells to carry oxygen around the body. This can make them very anaemic (tired, short of breath and pale)
*It mainly affects people of Mediterranean, South Asian, Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern origin
*There are a number of types of thalassaemia, which can be divided into alpha and beta thalassaemias. Beta thalassaemia major is the most severe type. Other types include beta thalassaemia intermedia, alpha thalassaemia major and haemoglobin H disease
*It's also possible to be a "carrier" of thalassaemia, also known as having the thalassaemia trait. Thalassaemia carriers don't have any serious health problems themselves, but are at risk of having children with the condition
Source: NHS Choices