Got Bug Larvae in Your Leg? Baldwin Does
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If you ask us, there's no better way to start off a news week than with some seriously nauseating Stephen Baldwin news. The always interesting actor has quit 'I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!' for a reason that we feel is totally legitimate: He has lots of insect larvae in his leg.
Baldwin says that within the first few days of taping the reality show in the Costa Rican jungle, he received 125+ bug bites, including 30 on his left leg. "Within about 72 hours they were these half dollar-sized lumps under my skin that were probably about an inch thick and were situations where they just weren't a reaction that were the same as the others - 123 so to speak," Baldwin told blogtalkradio.
The actor says that the medic on staff "explained that in his opinion at that point he didn't think that it was the 'implantation of insect larvae into my flesh', but that - oh gosh - that's what it could be... So they tested these things and sure enough, Stevie B was 'pregnant'." In order to rid himself of said larvae, Baldwin had to undergo a medical procedure to remove them ... which he says he videotaped. What does such a procedure look like? The "creepiest thing that you could think of," Baldwin says.
Before his journey to the jungle, Baldwin stopped by the PopEater offices to discuss what his demise might be ... and what do you know, he thought it'd be bugs! However, he was talking more in the sense of eating them than birthing them... tomato, tomahto.
