Leachman's Struggles With Vegetarianism

The Young Frankenstein star gave up meat in an effort to get healthy after she was struck down with hayfever, arthritis and asthma over the course of a summer.

But the diet change forced Leachman to drastically rethink her eating habits.

She explains, "I had to relearn how to cook about three different times - you're from Iowa, there's all sorts of good stuff and I used to marinate the meat with red wine... then I became vegetarian."

Leachman claims the diet helped give her her trademark long legs: "If you're a vegetarian, you get very long legs for some reason or other."

And there's another benefit: "If you don't eat meat, you don't smell... I don't ever wear a deodorant."