Shailene Woodley holds her award for "Best Breakthrough Performance" for her role in "The Descendants," in the press room at the MTV Movie Awards at Universal Studios, in Los Angeles, California, on June 3, 2012. (Credit: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/GettyImages)
The clay diet — it’s not a trend you hear about every day.
Shailene Woodley, however, seems quite a bit more familiar with the term. The 22-year-old star of Divergent and The Fault in Our Stars told David Letterman that she does, in fact, eat clay.
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Woodley eats a daily teaspoon of clay from a company that sources it from Colorado, she told Letterman. She also uses the clay in her toothpaste.
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