Actress Uma Thurman was an ugly duckling as a child, with chubby features. The actress confessed that she had baby fat and a big nose, big lips and big eyes that looked like they were taped to the side of her head.

The 37-year-old 6ft Pulp Fiction star revealed how, since she always thought she would never be good-looking, she concentrated on excelling in her schoolwork instead.

Actress Demi Moore has confessed to using blood-sucking leeches in a bid to keep her skin looking young and healthy.

The 45-year-old actress is apparently a huge fan of a bizarre detox treatment that involves sticking bloodthirsty creatures on her body.

She admitted she feels like she’s always been someone looking for the cutting edge of things that optimize her health and healing.

She 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.”

The age-defying actress revealed her penchant for the bloodsuckers while promoting her new flick Flawless on The Late Show with David Letterman.

Charlie’s Angels‘ actress Drew Barrymore donated $1 million of her own money on Monday to the World Food Programme (WFP) that the U.N. agency said would be used to feed thousands of schoolchildren in Kenya.

Charlie’s Angels‘ Barrymore, 33, a WFP ambassador against hunger, announced her pledge on The Oprah Winfrey Show to kick off the agency’s $3 billion “Fill the Cup” campaign that aims to feed 59 million hungry school children in developing countries for a year.

WFP hopes the United States will be able to donate enough money to feed 10 million of those children.

“I have seen with my own eyes what a difference a simple cup of nutritious porridge can make in a child’s life,” said the “Charlie’s Angels” star, who has traveled to Kenya twice in the past two years for WFP.

“It helps them learn, stay healthy and sets them on track for a bright future. I urge everyone — everywhere — to help WFP ‘Fill the Cup’ for hungry children, and make hunger history,” she said in a statement released by the agency.

Barrymore, who gained fame as a child star in the film “ET: The Extra-Terrestrial,” is the eighth-highest-paid actress in Hollywood, according to The Hollywood Reporter, earning more than $10 million a movie.

Josette Sheeran, WFP’s executive director, said $50 “fills a child’s cup for a year” and called on people to donate through the Web site www.wfp.org.

The organization said last year it provided more than 20 million school children with a daily cup of porridge, rice or beans and also gave many girls a monthly ration to take home to their families. It said up to 70 percent of its food used for school meals is bought from farmers in developing countries.