Jenny McCarthy Says She Almost DIED From Going Vegan!

Jenny McCarthy gave an extremely popular diet a go — but she says it almost killed her!

On the Heal Squad x Maria Menounos podcast’s Wednesday episode, the 52-year-old actress dished about her diet. She told host Maria Menounos about the nearly tragic time she tried to go vegan:

“I tried vegan and I almost died. I literally almost died. I became so ill from being a vegan.”

Whoa! What??

She explained how her food intolerances — including celiac disease, a soy allergy, and a dairy issue — made being vegan so much harder on her than it would someone else:

“I can’t have carbs and everything is a carb. I’m also allergic to soy and everything [has soy]. I was literally dying. I was exhausted and fatigued. I was a mess.”

Yeesh. That sounds miserable! What was she eating, just a bunch of lettuce??

Anyway, her digestive issues didn’t end there. The model revealed she’s currently “healing” from a number of ailments, including Hashimoto’s disease, leaky gut syndrome, and the fungal infection Candida:

“Healing leaky gut and candida can take years — it 100 percent takes years. So I did all kinds of diets… I also have MCAS, a histamine intolerance, so I went on a low-histamine diet, I went on every one of them.”

Ironically, with all of these health issues, her doctor advised her to go in the complete opposite direction — “full carnivore”:

“I was like, ‘Ugh, okay,’ I mean I’m from Chicago so I can handle it but it just felt very low vibrational [and] heavy for me. Like I was kind of more eating salmon and very light things like that but I was like, ‘I might as well give it a try’.”

Even though it was her “last resort diet,” Jenny said it’s been “f**king incredible” for her health:

“It changed my energy and my digestion. I have been a constipated little girl since I was younger … like from the time I was young I’d have to get enemas … Now that I started carnivore, I literally go every day without a laxative.”

That’s wonderful news! We guess everyone needs different things?

The Masked Singer star clarified the carnivore diet doesn’t work for everyone, though. And for some people, going vegan is the best option:

“Some people work [and] heal better on a vegan diet and some people don’t. It’s what you believe and you have to follow your intuition and then also follow what your blood says or what your body says. Your body will let you know, by the way.”

But also, listen to your doctor, right? If she hadn’t given his advice a try, she never would have realized it’s what she needed.

You can watch the full podcast and hear Jenny’s story (below):