Jenny McCarthy feels "25 again" after swapping her vegan meals for a meat-based diet

She told PEOPLE: "My bloat was so bad that it always made me feel like I was about three months pregnant.

"And I'm sorry if this is too TMI [too much information], but I was a complicated person who only went to the bathroom once every 14 days ...

"I went on the carnivore diet. I was so against it, but my doctor was like, you've tried everything but this, so you're going carnivore ...

"I've got to tell you, it saved my gut. I go to the bathroom every single day now - and it made me feel like I was 25 again."

Jenny explained she suffers from a long list of health problems including Hashimoto's disease, a leaky gut and Coeliac disease, but her new diet has helped her feel better and she's also lost weight and her skin problems have cleared up.

She added: "All of my acne has cleared up. In one month, I lost 12 to 15 pounds ... You can't half-a** it [the diet]. But if I showed you a picture of my face from even a year ago, it's so different. I didn't realize how swollen I was all the time."

It comes after Jenny previously had to deny she'd been taking the drug Ozempic to lose weight, insisting she's slimmed down naturally but used a an AirSculpt procedure to remove fat from her tummy.

She previously told Us Weekly: "As women, we hear the: 'Oh no, when you get older you're gonna get that tire on your belly. There's nothing you can do.'

"And I always thought I was kind of invincible because I was a jock in school. I'm like, 'I played every sport. I've worked out forever.

"I'm not gonna have that problem.' But no matter how much I tried to intermittent fast [to combat aging, its side effects persist].

"And I'm not an Ozempic person. I wanted a permanent solution to a targeted area with a bonus of fixing my hands - and that's what I got."