Hungry?

Doctors have removed a 10-pound hairball from the stomach of an 18-year-old woman, the New England Journal of Medicine reported last week.

The woman had gone to the doctor because of vomiting, abdominal pain and weight loss. Doctors said she also suffered from a condition called trichophagia, or the compulsive eating of hair.

The Chicago doctors surgically removed the 15-inch-long, 7-inch-wide mass, which was taking up most of the room in her stomach.

The journal reports that a year after surgery, the woman is pain-free and no longer eating her hair.