From our 2000 archives: As this legend goes, women bought and invested diet pills made of tapeworm eggs. 👇
Untold Stories of the E.R.a supposed real-life scenario in which a teenage girl arrived at Florida hospital’s emergency room with a bulging stomach, and the cause of the patient’s malady was eventually revealed when she went to the bathroom and excreted tapeworms. The girl’s mother then allegedly admitted that she had fed her daughter tapeworm egg pills to help the girl drop some weight before an upcoming beauty pageant:“It was a toilet bowl full of tapeworms. Blegh!” [E.R.
This dramatization echoed a century-old rumor about women buying and ingesting diet pills made of tapeworm eggs in order to maintain slender figures, with the parasites taking up residence in the women’s intestines and consuming a significant portion of their caloric intake, thereby preventing food from being stored as undesirable, poundage-adding fat and fostering the burning up of previously stored fat.
This rumor has been associated with a number of prominent women, such as German model Claudia Schiffer, but probably no one was singled out by it more often than opera singer Maria Callas . Callas was indeed afflicted with tapeworms, but not due to any “lose weight quick!” reducing scheme: she was overly fond of steak and liver tartare, raw meat dishes prone to
The tapeworm diet pill claims usually posited that partakers eventually swallowed deworming pills once they had achieved their desired figures to be rid of the tapeworms, but the rumor also melded with a folk tale to form a new entity:
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