Demi Moore, whose perpetually youthful look has inspired talk of Botox addiction and knee lifts among catty observers, has tried to put the plastic surgery rumors to rest by sharing her beauty secret: “leech therapy.”
Um, suddenly, being injected with botulism doesn’t seem like such a terrible option.
“I feel like I’ve always been someone looking for the cutting edge of things that optimize your health and healing,” she told David Letterman on his show. “I was in Austria doing a cleanse and part of the treatment was leech therapy. These aren’t just swamp leeches though — we are talking about highly trained medical leeches.”
That’s right — these leeches went to Harvard Medical School!
Demi describes how she detoxed by letting four leeches suck her blood, starting from her belly button (mmmm!), and how they don’t like hair and prefer waxed or shaved skin. Which is quite unusual for European leeches.
“I did it in some woman’s house lying on her bed. We did a little sampler first, which is in the belly button. . . You feel [them] bite down on you, and you want to go, ‘You bastard!’ and then you relax and watch it swell up,” she said.
“They have a little enzyme that when they are biting down in you, it gets released in your blood and generally you bleed for quite a bit — and your health is optimized,” she added.
Or… you die, like George Washington did using the same “therapy.” Either/or. Great idea!
leeches and $40k worth of plastic surgery.
March 25th, 2008 at 3:26 pm‘highly trained medical leeches’
BWAHAHAHAHahahaha hee he he ha oh dear hehe snort. What a fecking idiot.
March 25th, 2008 at 3:36 pmI loved the part about the leeches going to Harvard Medical school. What these buttfucking insane celebrities won’t do!!! First I heard about Debbie Harry using sheep embryos, then Gwyneth Paltrow and her fucking snake venom. Was it organic snake venom. Now Demi Moore and her fucking leeches!!! How does bleeding out cleanse you for fuck’s sake. Jesus fucking hell. She could have fucking donated blood. Would that not have been the same thing?
I am soooooo waiting for the day when one of these celebrities uses shit for anti- aging, that or semen. Wasn’t there a fucking salon that was using bull’s semen for hair conditioner or hair serum?????
March 25th, 2008 at 4:08 pmOh, I forgot to say that David Letterman suggested this bizarre behavior might be attributed to menopause. I love that man for that alone.
March 25th, 2008 at 4:09 pmHarvard Medical School?! But they’re Austrian leeches!
March 25th, 2008 at 6:41 pmBut remember Eize, not only Americans can go to Harvard. Those leeches might have scored some serious marks in school and their parent leeches had the cash to get them in.
How completely bizarre, the leech thing. I agree with Demon Kitty… how do they figure that bleeding cleanses you? How is this a detox?
March 25th, 2008 at 6:56 pmBut do leeches pay domestic tuition since they’re sooooo small, or do they have to pay international fees?
I thought Demi was smarter than this–guess the botox has gone to her head…
March 25th, 2008 at 7:33 pm14: I think I just piddled a bit I was laughing so hard when I saw that pic, I love the fake pulp fiction/B-Movie stuff you do.
March 25th, 2008 at 10:15 pmI should have clarified: wouldn’t those Austrian leeches have gone to a LOCAL university to get their degrees?
March 25th, 2008 at 11:11 pmRight on Demon Kitty!!!!!!!
March 26th, 2008 at 3:22 amI think the leeches sucked out her brain instead.
March 26th, 2008 at 3:52 amDoesnt her Boy husband have some dorky show about punking people. Hello EVERYONE where is your bullshit detector???
March 26th, 2008 at 6:30 amLeeches my arse.
Blood-letting is an old medical practice that does have some basis in physiology. It’s now called “theraputic phlebotomy.” The same is true for using maggots to clean up festering wounds.
But it is gross.
And I have to wonder why the naval? In Eastern healing theory, this is a forbidden spot, generally only used in extreme cases.
Duh, Demi Moore, you are now officially whacko. Thanks for ruining what was a perfectly good fantasy for me.
March 26th, 2008 at 6:41 amI second that Andrea. It might be another fake story, like the Paris Hilton Guru one. This one is a little more interesting for the gross factor, but “punking” the media with these tame stories hardly seem worth it. Tell me the last 2 years of Britney Spears’ life was a media hoax orchestrated by Ashton and now you’ve got something!
March 26th, 2008 at 8:13 amoh no! i fear this is a joke for her boytoy’s “pop fiction” thingie. i have a feeling demi is pulling our leg.
March 26th, 2008 at 10:19 amhilarious poster, candy!
March 26th, 2008 at 1:51 pm