Cruise to eat nutritious placenta
 

This is nuts.

Hollywood actor and Scientologist Tom Cruise is planning to eat Katie Holmes' placenta. It is the latest in a series of strange revelations by the 43-year-old 'Mission: Impossible' star about the child he is expecting with fiancée Katie Holmes. ...

http://www.rte.ie/arts/2006/0418/cruiset.html


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yum
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yum.

Man, and I thought the Chinese ate some pretty weird stuff... I'd heard that people ate placentas before, but I didn't believe it.

Wow. Just wow.

EDIT: Cruise told GQ magazine: "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."

RIGHT THERE? As in, raw? As in, right out of her? That totally takes it from "wow" to *vomit*.

Back in the 70s Ms. magazine regularly published articles about this nonsense. This is not new crazy shit. This is repackaged old crazy shit.

The article I recall recommended sauteing.

The hippies North of here do that kinda stuff. Most of them are more than just a little strange. Mr. Cruise has really done something remarkable since he didn't even need drugs to get this fucking crazy.

It would be the lack of appropriately prescribed drugs that makes him this fucking crazy.

'tis very icky.

Friends of mine are a bit hippy-ish and they have planted the placenta's from both their pregnancies in big pots with plants that have significant meaning...no, no, I dont think they are those kinda pot plants.

Cruise was joking. But it is a sign of his insanity that people are willing to believe it with no problem.

I'm gonna plant a tree with the cord, but . . . wow.

...a california cheeseburger!

Check out The Straight Dope on placenta consumption.

I thought I was gonna be able to read all of this alright, but nope...:shock: :vomit: :vomitblu: :rollanim: :hide: :bolt:

:yum: California Cheeseburger :yum:

Somewhere I have a picture of the placenta from our eldest's birth. The instructor at our birthing classes told us that it was interesting and Mrs. Dar wanted the chance to see what it looks like. [It looks like liver] Mrs. Dar was rather busy at the time they were about to cart it off so she asked me to snap a picture.

That pic was a sure fire conversation starter when we were showing off the baby pictures.

My 8th grade science teacher claimed he ate the placentas from both his children's births. This makes absolutely no sense to me. I've also heard of women drying theirs, grinding it into a powder, and taking it in capsule form to treat PPD. This makes only slightly more sense to me. I guess if anyone is gonna eat it, it should be the mom, but I've never been that hungry... and I can't see how eating my own internal organs would cheer me up.

Cannibalism is cannibalism. Even in Hollywood.

I would say it would be his belief in a cult where aliens are conspiring to take over the human species through the use of appropriately prescribed drugs. Oh and he is just dumb lol

It's a very nice cult if you're a celebrity.

I'll just buy it for my wife to put in her hair... kay'?

That or Kabbalah:eyebrow:

Kabbalah isn't quite as focused on sucking money out of you, though.

I did a couple of shows at a theatre across the street from their celebrity center at the old Barrymore mansion... a travesty. Broke my heart, but got to see a lot of nutty stars coming and going.
They threw parties a couple of nights a week.

I just got the DVD of Wild Palms and started watching it last night. There is a thinly veiled poke at Scientology that's a major part of the plotline.

Last summer, the St. Louis School District got tangled up with Scientology through their Applied Scholastics program. A couple of employees that went through the program as part of training complained, and our weekly newspaper put the shit to the fan. Whoops!

You can only charge so much for string.

Of course, I would have thought the same for crappy pulp skiffy.

They released it on DVD for consumers?! AWESOME. For the last 7 years or so I've had to make do with the two-VHS set I bought from a video store going out of business...

I have the video tapes that I originally "time shifted" the series on.

I was very excited when I saw that it was out.

Rhino.

:vomit: :repuke: :repuke: :dead3: Is placenta consumption even legal?

Why wouldn't it be? As a confirmed seafood-hater, I find it hard to imagine it's worse than, say, oysters.

It's perfectly legal, though I bet a lot of hospitals would prefer to dump it straight in the hazardous waste bucket, and may need a bit of convincing.

I suspect that it is on the cafeteria menu at many new-age birthing centers.

They scoop it right out of the birthing tub and into the skillet.

Not at the new-age birthing center I used, but maybe they just weren't new-agey enough. And they repeatedly warned me against pushing while in the jacuzzi.... didn't want any birth goo in the jets.

You would think that Scientologists would require that all placentae be returned to the Center for processing and extraction of fetal stem cells. Between their obsession with money and some of their other nutty "doctrine", they could have their placenta and eat it too. Erm, so to speak... :3_eyes:

Paper, plastic or placenta? You want the sack you can eat Mr. Cruise or the one you can take home. Good grief.



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