Heidi Klum Shares the Results of Her ‘Worm and Parasite Cleanse’ With Husband Tom Kaulitz
Heidi Klum is getting candid about the cleanse she and husband Tom Kaulitz tried in an effort to rid their bodies of potential worms and parasites.
The supermodel, 52, joked in a People interview published on Saturday, November 29, that she and Kaulitz, 36, didn’t “inspect anything” they passed during their cleanse nor did they recognize any specific benefits of the process.
“So many people asked me too, like, ‘What happened?’ I’m like, ‘I don’t even know if anything happened!’” she told the outlet. “It just felt good … just if there were any [worms or parasites], then I hope that they were leaving the body because I hear so many people talk about this all the time.”
Regardless of the results, Klum and Kaulitz relied on each other for support during the cleanse.
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“It’s easier to do this with a partner in the morning because you have to drink this weird stuff,” she said. “It’s all herbal, but nonetheless it’s yucky and you have to do this routine of doing it every day in order to kill it in all of the eggs apparently. You have to do two rounds instead of two weeks. We did two rounds in order to hopefully kill eggs and things. But yeah, we felt great afterwards.”
Klum originally revealed her plans to do the cleanse in an August Wall Street Journal interview, noting at the time that she wanted to try the process despite having no evidence that worms or parasites were in her body.
“I’m going to deworm and de-parasite for the first time,” she explained. “Everything I’m getting on my Instagram feed at the moment is about worms and parasites. So I’m doing a worm cleanse and parasite cleanse with my husband. I heard that you’re supposed to do this once a year, and I’ve never done it. So I feel like I’m really behind. I don’t know what the heck is going to come out.”
Klum then shared more theories about worms, parasites and other possible bodily contamination.
“If you are someone who eats raw things every now and then, like, for example, sushi. There are pills [to get rid of them],” she claimed. “They have all of these herbs. There’s a lot of clove in there. The parasite hates clove. They also hate the seeds from a papaya. We have all this metal inside of us, and it’s also very important that you use this de-metaling stuff.”
After Klum’s comments made headlines, medical experts such as Dr. Leana Wen attempted to clarify some misconceptions about cleanses for worms and parasites. Wen emphasized to CNN in an August interview that parasitic infections require proper medical treatment, while individuals who are not showing symptoms — like Klum — should avoid the cleanses due to the additional health risks they pose.
“Some people may ask, well, what’s the harm of trying the cleanse in someone who is asymptomatic?” Wen said. “[My] concern is that every therapy has risks. If you don’t have symptoms and no reason to be using the treatment, then you have to consider that the risks may outweigh the benefits.”
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