[P]ediatric E.R. nurse, Maricar Cabral-Osorio thought the teenage girl [who] arrived with a bulging stomach at the Florida hospital where she works might be pregnant, but an ultrasound showed no signs of a baby.

[Then she] went to the bathroom and started screaming:

“It was a toilet bowl full of tapeworms.” Cabral-Osorio said. “[S]he had pooped all these tapeworms. There were a couple that were wiggling around trying to get out of the toilet bowl.”

Then – of course – the mother started apologizing to her daughter, saying “I’m sorry. You know, I did it just to make you a little skinnier. You needed some help before we went on to the pageant.”

Yep. She gave her daughter pills with tapeworm eggs to get her to lose weight. For a beauty pageant.

Photo of a tapeworm head via Getty Images.
Via Huffington Post.