"I'm Going to Eat the Placenta" Says Father, Insane Movie Star
What more need be said than:in an interview with GQ magazine a few weeks ago, Cruise announced that he planned to eat the placenta after the child was born.The piece goes on and one about who's going to eat placenta, Donald Trump, Angelina Jolie, Karl Rove. Mmmm.Cruise said in the article: “I’m gonna eat the placenta. I thought that would be good. Very nutritious. I’m gonna eat the cord and the placenta right there.”
Mission improbable?
This led to more speculation about Cruise’s taste for women, and speculation about whether or not he was joking. We here at The Blogaroni don’t believe what he said for a second. We don’t think he would eat it “right there.” We envision him doing it on a Very Special Oprah show during the publicity tour for his next movie — perhaps in the company of his next girlfriend.
Eating the placenta, it turns out, is not a very normal thing to do by American standards. But it is not unheard of. In fact, there’s even a name for it: placentophagia.
[thanks Art]
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Ummm.. Ewww.. There are other ways to eat healthy. This is absolutely disgusting. What is the matter with people?
- by David Krueger on Apr 21, 2006 at 11:06 AM | link
How about "inane" movie star?
- by Fard Johnmar on Apr 21, 2006 at 5:55 PM | link
Not many of us need protein that desperately.
However, back in the '70's and early '80's, there was a back to nature movement that promoted doing just this as part of the ceremony surrounding a family, home birth. In a stew. Because some animals do it.
- by Beverly on Apr 21, 2006 at 11:22 PM | link
Before moving to Albany, I lived in a community where placenta soup and placenta lasagna parties were not uncommon following the birth of a baby. As a (then) vegetarian I begged off, but it wasn't a shocking or crazy practice.
- by Alicia on Apr 23, 2006 at 10:30 PM | link
Run Katie! RUN!
- by Sarcasticus Bioethicus on Apr 24, 2006 at 12:20 AM | link
Oprah, help! I need your cameras. After that couch jumping moment on national tv, here he goes again. I'd love to see him munching placenta with blood dripping from his mouth...gross!
If I were Katie, I'll distance myself and Kittie from husband dearie.
- by ipanema on Apr 24, 2006 at 5:04 AM | link
Maybe he should catch mice instead? After all he is not a mama cat that has just given birth and needs some protein. He can hunt.
- by Kitty on Apr 30, 2006 at 1:42 AM | link