Into a tree!

My mother has a knack for instilling the oddest fears in her children. In an effort to prevent me from chewing my nails, she advised the swallowed chips are seeds which germinate inside of my stomach when they attach themselves to swallowed chewing gum, (we have all in our time accidentally swallowed chewing gum) resulting in a little plant seedling that will eventually grow into a tree. Leaving me a tree person. So here is what I imagined I would look like...