Demi Moore's Beauty Tip: Blood-Sucking Leeches

Demi Moore has revealed she uses blood-sucking leeches as an alternative to botox in order to maintain her youthful looks.

Leech therapy was used in ancient Egypt by doctors considering them a miracle cure. These days they are more commonly used in plastic and reconstructive surgery to assist in the reattachment of severed body parts.

Speaking on David Letterman’s talk show, the Flawless actress admitted to using the insects for health reasons.

She said: "I feel like I've always been someone looking for the cutting edge of things that optimize your health and healing. 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.

"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.

"It detoxifies your blood - I'm feeling very detoxified right now. I did it in some woman's house laying 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 bastard.' Then you relax and work on your Lemaze breathing just to kind of relax.

"You watch it swell up on your blood, watching it get fatter and fatter - then when its super drunk on your blood it just kind of rolls over like it is stumbling out of the bar."

To prepare for the leeches, Demi revealed she had to shave and take a bath in turpentine.

She is convinced the therapy is effective and plans to return to Austria for more sessions.

She said: "You first feel worse then you feel better. But I'm going back - I only got 4 leeches and I feel a bit cheated."

Vanessa Williams recently admitted that she tried a urine facial to get radiant skin. What's the weirdest method you've tried/heard of for maintain youthful looks? Be sure to leave your comments below!