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Jenna Elfman is talking about her homeopathic doctor. "It sounds kooky," says the woman who made kookiness a prime-time hit, "but he gave me this miracle water from a well in South America. It has these little guys in it—if you look under a microscope, you see them swimming around—and they just, like, heal you." That said, she who trips the light comedy fantastic as Dharma & Greg's bubbly New Age babe dismisses any notion that she has absorbed Dharma's karma. " 'Free-spirited' has such a ditzy connotation," says Elfman, 27. "I definitely don't feel that I'm ditzy."

As if to prove it, she ditched her navel ring and opted for EDtv, playing the most levelheaded member—a UPS driver—of an en semble of world-class flakes. "She gets a great amount of pleasure from everything she's doing, and that sort of beams right off her," says Elfman's TV father, Alan Rachins. "Not to mention that she's tall, gorgeous, feminine and very athletic." Adds Elfman's husband of four years, actor Bodhi Elfman (The Mod Squad): "Jenna might just have the best legs on planet Earth."

But it wasn't until the end of high school in California's San Fernando Valley that the 5'10" daughter of a homemaker and an engineer stood tall on those limbs. "The first day of senior year was actually the first time I dug the way I looked," recalls the avid dancer, who still takes private ballet classes three days a week. "The braces were gone [along with her old nickname, Bucky Beaver] and the breasts had grown in." But she confesses to being a head case in one area at least. "That's my big neurosis—my hair," says the wannabe brunette, who is too afraid to go dark. "I'm over my thin lips. "What can I do?" She drinks 100 ounces of water daily, follows the book Eat Right for Your Type (meaning blood type) and indulges in Creme de la Mer moisturizer—at $1,000 for 16.5 ounces. "I can't live without it," says Elfman, admitting that she looks in the mirror "a lot. I'm an actress. There's always that little 10 percent of vanity that hangs over your head at all times."