Demi Moore's Bloodsucking Leeches Are Her Beauty Secret

Demi Moore has revealed the secret to her youthful looks, and it involves leeches. The "Striptease" star says that she uses the blood-sucking leeches to optimize her health.

Speaking to David Letterman on his late night show, the 45-year-old actress explains, "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're talking about highly trained medical lechers. These are not some low level scavengers. We're talking high-level bloodsuckers."

Moore, who was in the show to promote her new film "Flawless," continues, "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 down on you and you want to go, 'You bastard.' Then you relax and work on your Lamaze 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 is stumbling out of the bar."

The actress insists that the therapy is effective and says she plans to return to Austria 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."