Demi Moore’s Disgusting Secret to Staying Beautiful
March 26, 2008 by Amber
Filed under Demi Moore
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Most of us are resigned to the fact that with age comes wrinkles, sagging, and any number of unattrative body changes, but when you’re a celebrity living beneath the bright lights of Hollyweird, growing old just isn’t an option for them.
Take Demi Moore for example. She’s an actress, with only five years left until the big 5.0., and she doesn’t want to get old and wrinkly. Her alternative? Turpentine and leech therapy!
Ewww…
Moore told U.S. talk show host David Letterman all about her secret to staying young and beautiful – in great detail, I might add. ÂÂ
“I feel like I’ve always been someone looking for the cutting edge of things that optimise your health and healing,” Demi explained. ÂÂ
“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.
“These are not some low-level scavengers – we’re talking high-level blood suckers.”
What exactly was Demi doing at a leech therapy house in Austria in the first place, you might ask? She was there to “detoxify [her] blood.” That makes sense.
While I’ve heard of leech therapy before in the long history of ancient medicine (the Egyptians swore by them as a cure for everything, and the English used them frequently to “bleed” their patients to ward off a number of illnesses), I’ve never heard of them used before to make someone “more beautiful.” Sounds rather barbaric (and desperate!) to me, but Demi swears by them.
Moore continued (and this is where it gets graphic): “[The leeches] 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 optimised.
“It detoxifies your blood – I’m feeling very detoxified right now.
“I did it in some woman’s house lying on her bed. We did a little sampler first, which is in the belly button.
“It crawls in and you feel it bite down on you and you want to go, ‘You b*****d’. Then you relax and work on your breathing just to kind of relax.
“You watch it swell up on your blood, watching it get fatter and fatter – then when it’s super drunk on your blood it just kind of rolls over like it’s stumbling out of the bar.”
But that’s not the worst of the treatment. As mentioned earlier, the leech therapy also includes the use of turpentine and wax. Apparently the little vampires don’t much like a body covered in grime and hair.
“You have to do a turpentine bath first – that’s part of the therapy,” Demi said.
“The other thing I found out is that leeches don’t like hair so if you are hairy be prepared to do some shaving or waxing – they much prefer a Brazilian.”
Demi is so convinced that the bizarre therapy helps to keep her looking younger that she’s planning on returning to Austria soon for more sessions.
“You first feel worse then you feel better. But I’m going back – I only got four leeches and I feel a bit cheated.”
Of course… because that’s the natural reaction to have when you only have four leeches sucking you dry and someone else has six… I’d feel cheated, too.
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