Jennifer Aniston Recalls Home Piercing Horror  11/1/06

Actress Jennifer Aniston was so desperate to emulate the glamorous movie icons of her childhood she pierced her own ears - with a potato.

The Friends star was too impatient to book a salon appointment so made do with home vegetables, a needle and some string.

She recalls, "(I did it) with a potato and a piece of celery. I was around 13, 14. You ice it up, and then there was a string involved, because you take a needle and thread, and then you hit it with the potato, it I remember it correctly.

"It was a long time ago, but somehow it worked, and you have little string earrings for a while."