Megan Fox Gives Machine Gun Kelly a Glam Makeover
My bloody BFFs.
On Dec. 16, Machine Gun Kelly took to his Instagram Stories to stock a hair-raising video of himself getting up adjacent and idiosyncratic with immoderate slimy, humor sucking leeches. In the clip, captioned "My champion friends," the "My Bloody Valentine" vocalist lies down shirtless arsenic the creepy crawlers squirm astir his belly-button.
The 32-year-old didn't elaborate connected what helium was doing with the predatory worms. Leech therapy connected the navel is believed to assistance to detoxify the liver and digestive system, portion improving humor flow, and dates backmost to past Egyptian times.
Blood seems to beryllium a communal theme for MGK. When proposing to Megan Fox successful in January, helium presented the 36-year-old histrion with a massive engagement ring that consists of a tear-drop-shaped diamond and emerald gemstones, representing their birthstones, joined and perched connected a metallic magnetic set of thorns. By design, if Megan attempts to instrumentality it off, the thorns would excavation into her skin.
"If she tries to instrumentality it off, it hurts," MGK told Vogue. "Love is pain!"
When the Jennifer's Body prima announced the pair's engagement connected Instagram, she raised eyebrows writing, "I said yes...and past we drank each other's blood," though she later clarified that the couple's blood-swapping isn't as barbaric arsenic immoderate fans whitethorn think.
"So, I conjecture to 'drink' each other's humor mightiness mislead radical oregon radical are imagining america with goblets and we're like Game of Thrones, drinking each other's blood," Megan told Glamour U.K. in April. "It's conscionable a fewer drops, but yes, we do consume each other's humor connected juncture for ritual purposes only.
Two months later, MGK walked the reddish carpet astatine the premiere of the rapper's film Taurus, wearing a syringe earring, which was seemingly filled with blood.
MGK isn't the archetypal celeb to play astir with leeches. During a 2008 quality connected the Late Night Show the David Letterman, Demi Moore recalled doing leech therapy on her belly fastener and respective others assemblage parts portion connected a travel to Austria,
"I've ever been idiosyncratic looking for the cutting borderline of things that are for optimizing your wellness and healing," she told big David Letterman. "These aren't conscionable swamp leeches, these are highly trained aesculapian leeches. These are not conscionable immoderate low-level scavengers; we're talking precocious level humor suckers."
She continued, "It detoxifies your blood. And they person a small enzyme that erstwhile they're biting down connected you, gets released into your humor and mostly you bleed for rather a bit. And your wellness is optimized. I'm feeling detoxified close now."
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Miranda Kerr antecedently revealed she swears by leech facials to support her tegument choky and youthful, calling the attraction "adventurous." She adjacent took the creatures location after.
"Health is wealth. They've been doing leech therapy for thousands of years," Miranda explained to Gwyneth Paltrow during an interrogation for Goop successful 2017. "I kept the leeches, they're successful my koi pond. You're not allowed to reuse them and if you don't instrumentality them location past she kills them and I didn't similar that idea."
Taken aback, Gwyneth—someone who's tried everything from vaginal steaming to jade eggs— told her, "‘Wow. I thought I was batshit crazy.'
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