--- title: Shailene Woodley: Eating Clay Helps Me 'Excrete Materials' description: Actress Shailene Woodley told David Letterman that eating clay is amazing. She says it helps your body “excrete materials.” canonical: https://time.com/89152/shailene-woodley-eats-clay/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-06T13:34:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T07:40:28.674Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Shailene Woodley On Eating Clay og:description: Actress Shailene Woodley told David Letterman that eating clay is amazing. She says it helps your body “excrete materials.” og:url: https://time.com/89152/shailene-woodley-eats-clay/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04a5b2cb05d08356/69868e10cd804d2c6bccab68/shailene1280x720.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Shailene_Clay og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Shailene Woodley On Eating Clay twitter:description: Actress Shailene Woodley told David Letterman that eating clay is amazing. She says it helps your body “excrete materials.” twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04a5b2cb05d08356/69868e10cd804d2c6bccab68/shailene1280x720.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Shailene Woodley: Eating Clay Helps Me 'Excrete Materials' by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video May 6, 2014 1:34 PM CUT  On The Late Show with David Letterman, Shailene Woodley talked about how she eats clay. On The Late Show with David Letterman, Shailene Woodley talked about how she eats clay.Jamie McCarthy / Getty Images by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video May 6, 2014 1:34 PM CUT _Divergent_ star Shailene Woodley has been known to forage for herbs and promote natural living, but she told David Letterman her diet now includes a particularly odd mineral. Eating clay, she said, can help your body “excrete materials.” The CBS late night host had a hard time wrapping his head around that one. Viewers more interested in her acting than her foraging should go see Woodley in the film [_The Fault in our Stars_](http://time.com/61751/fault-in-our-stars-first-clip/ "undefined")on June 6th. **WATCH:** [Divergent: Behind-the-Scenes Interview Video with Shailene Woodley ](http://time.com/12694/divergent-shailene-woodley-behind-the-scenes-interview-video/ "undefined") **MORE:** [Why Hollywood Desperately Needs Shailene Woodley ](http://time.com/27165/why-hollywood-desperately-needs-shailene-woodley/ "undefined") **MORE:** [Shailene Woodley on why She’s Not a Feminist ](http://time.com/87967/shailene-woodley-feminism-fault-in-our-stars/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/89152/shailene-woodley-eats-clay/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/89152/shailene-woodley-eats-clay/"},"headline":"Shailene Woodley: Eating Clay Helps Me 'Excrete Materials'","datePublished":"2014-05-06T13:34:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:40:28.674Z","description":"The young Divergent actress tells David Letterman her all-natural diet has few limits","url":"https://time.com/89152/shailene-woodley-eats-clay/","keywords":["celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04a5b2cb05d08356/69868e10cd804d2c6bccab68/shailene1280x720.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04a5b2cb05d08356/69868e10cd804d2c6bccab68/shailene1280x720.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Shailene_Clay","caption":"On The Late Show with David Letterman, Shailene Woodley talked about how she eats clay.","creditText":"Jamie McCarthy / Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrity/","name":"celebrity"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/89152/shailene-woodley-eats-clay/","name":"Shailene Woodley: Eating Clay Helps Me 'Excrete Materials'"}}]}] ```