NEW YORK, Nov. 29, 2004
Julie Chen's Miss Muffet Syndrome
Watch Video Of Chen, Who Is Afraid Of Insects, Handle A Big Beetle
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Play CBS Video Video Julie Chen Bugs Out The Early Show anchors are facing their fears this week, and first up is Julie Chen, who confronted her phobia of all creepy-crawlies.
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Julie Chen and curator Mark Siddall (CBS/The Early Show)
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So as part of a new The Early Show series called Facing Our Fears, the co-anchor agreed to visit the bug collection at New York's American Museum of Natural History.
Curator Mark Siddall introduced Chen to a variety of insects. He pointed out that scorpions and spiders are not insects but arachnids. Similarly, centipedes and millipedes belong to a group called Myriapoda.
Whether it is an insect or not, Chen says, she afraid of "anything that has a lot of legs. And if there's hair on top of them, that's even worse."
After being introduced to two scorpions, Chen agreed to handle a best beetle.
Watch the video to see what happened.
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