When you think about people who can’t swim, you probably imagine small children wrapped in floaties, but a surprisingly large number of adults have never learned to stay afloat—including celebrities with enormous pools in their mansions. Whether it’s a fear of water or something they’ve just never gotten around to, check out this gallery to see which stars more likely sink would than swim.
She may have been born in the Caribbean surrounded by water, but the R&B singer doesn’t step foot in the water. It’s a peculiar fear that’s holding her back. Rihanna suffers from ichthyophobia, or the fear of fish. In fact, she has said that she is afraid of sea creatures in general. She says that one time in Barbados she “saw all these tiny fish swimming around my feet, and I had a panic attack. I just froze.”
Snoop Dogg
The rapper famously can’t swim, and he even wrote a song about it in 2000 called ‘I Can’t Swim.’ It features the lyrics, “I hate water. I never learned to swim, put me down! let go of my leg! I hate water! I can’t swim!”
Will Smith
The actor who seems like he’s not afraid of anything has admitted in the past that he can’t swim, that he’s had a lifelong fear of the ocean, and that he’ll only go in the water if his feet can touch the bottom.That all changed, however, when he recently learned to scuba dive and made a video about it called ‘Facing My BIGGEST Fear.’
