Tom Cruise vows to eat placenta after birth

[DizzG]

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Mission Impossible star Cruise vows to eat placenta after birth
By Patrick Mulchrone

TOM Cruise yesterday revealed his latest bizarre mission..to eat his new baby's placenta.

Cruise vowed he would tuck in straight after girlfriend Katie Holmes gives birth, saying he thought it would be "very nutritious".

The Mission Impossible star, 43, said: "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." It is the latest in a series of increasingly strange outbursts from Cruise in the run-up to the birth.

He has claimed the baby, due any day, will be delivered in total silence.

The Top Gun star also insisted he "sensed" fiancŽe Katie was pregnant before she told him.

And he has blurted out details of the couple's sex life, saying: "It's spectacular."

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The actor, who recently also claimed he has the power to cure drug addicts, has even been carrying out his own medical scans on the foetus after buying himself an ultrasound machine.

Silent birth is one of the rules of the cult of Scientology, which Cruise is devoted to.

The cult - founded by the late sci-fi writer L Ron Hubbard - claims that 75 million years ago aliens came to earth and their spirits now infest our bodies.

Cruise told GQ magazine Hubbard had discovered making a noise had a "negative spiritual effect" on someone giving birth. He insisted that 27-year-old Katie would be allowed to scream, adding cryptically: "It is really about respecting the woman. It's not about her screaming.

"And scientifically it is proven. Now there are medical research papers that say when a woman's giving birth everyone should be quiet."

Cruise also revealed he and Katie have been preparing for the birth by holding classes at their Beverly Hills home.

He said: "We've been studying what a woman goes through. What happens to her body. It's just kind of becoming this fun game of learning."

Cruise said his sex life with Batman Begins star Katie had made him realise one-night stands were "horrible".

He added: "Great sex is a by-product for me of a great relationship, where you have communication. It's an extension of that. If you're not in good communication with your partner, it sucks."

Cruise, who has two adopted children with ex-wife Nicole Kidman, will not be the first star to make a meal out of his baby's placenta.

Rod Stewart and girlfriend Penny Lancaster took home their baby's placenta, sprinkled it with tee tree oil and buried it in the garden.

In 1998, Channel 4 chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall fried a placenta with shallots and garlic and served it up to 20 guests, including the baby's mum and dad.

TV watchdogs later criticised the show, branding it "disagreeable".

But placenta-eating is considered normal in some cultures. Various recipes include one for placenta lasagne. Some say eating it helps avoid post-natal depression.

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[ladyspur]

Ok, he's lost it now.

[bonnington]

He is fricking crazy.

[TheLadiesMike]

Sick.

[RickV]

I'd pay to see a psychological profile on that freak.

[ladyspur]

I think Katie Holmes is brainwashed.

[PHANTOM21]

[SAScrub]

There is no way this is real...no way...

[shelden]

I pity their child.

[Hantler]

Originally Posted by SAScrub

There is no way this is real...no way...

exactly what I was thinking. It's gotta be the UK equivalent to our Onion. No way this is real.

[TexasNate]

It was a joke. Go read about it on a real newspaper site instead of this uk internet tabloid.

[half-a-chef]

i feel sorry for the baby. imagine growing up in that family

[phillyspurslover]

wow....it's tough to be a fan of this guy, anymore.

i feel bad for katie holmes, b/c he is ruining her.


what a whack job.

[liquidsky]

Originally Posted by PHANTOM21

[micah76]

Originally Posted by phillyspurslover

wow....it's tough to be a fan of this guy, anymore.

i feel bad for katie holmes, b/c he is ruining her.


what a whack job.

It was her choice. She could have picked another hollywood moviestar to pretend to be the father of her illegitimate child. She picked Cruise because he is safe and would never ever ever try to sleep with her or be intimate. It frees her up to be with the guys she really likes minus the spotlight.

[DizzG]

Originally Posted by TexasNate

It was a joke. Go read about it on a real newspaper site instead of this uk internet tabloid.

he appartly told this to GQ mag. I've seen it posted on several different sites

maybe he was joking...I dunno

[boo_radley]

Placenta consumption isn't as crazy as you would think, as the article mentioned it is common in some cultures and it is gaining popularity here in America, in fact some people even throw what are called Placenta Parties. Below is a journal entry from Babycenter.com


San Francisco writer Anne Marie Feld still felt a little too footloose and fancy-free for motherhood — until fate intervened. While Anne and her husband Dave are thrilled to have a baby on the way, they're also a little terrified about the changes looming and the end of sleep as they know it. Join Anne each Monday as she chronicles her journey to motherhood, armed with a newly sensible wardrobe, high-carbohydrate snacks, and a raging case of hypochondria. (Editor's note: Anne began her journal in April 2003; in this installment, she's 11 weeks pregnant.)

Week 8: Want a side of placenta with that?

"So, are you going to eat your placenta?"

This is the kind of question you expect to be asked when you're pregnant in Northern California. This time, however, the query came hurtling through the phone line from 3,000 miles away, courtesy of my sister, Jen, in New York.

"What?" I sputtered, hopeful that what I heard was simply interference on the line.

"I saw it on A Baby Story," Jen said. "The family threw a party and cooked the placenta in garlic and butter. They said it tasted like veal."

"They did not!"

"Did so."

I've been asked a lot of questions since Dave and I broke our baby news to friends and family. Most of them are pretty innocuous: "Do you have morning sickness?" or "Have you thought about baby names?" None of them, however, prepared me for this one. People burying their placenta under a beloved tree in the garden? Sure. Joining hands with loved ones and dancing around the placenta in the light of the full moon? Probably not for me, but I bet it happens all the time. Throwing dinner parties and making a meal of the thing? Uh ... I don't think so.

Jen was still hanging patiently on the line, but words had failed me completely. After a while, I ventured, "Why don't you eat my placenta?"

Placenta pizza, and other peculiarities

Not surprisingly, Jen wasn't interested in partaking of my placenta. Instead, she was simply enjoying the sport we've both been mastering since we were little — attempting to gross each other out. (This time, we both knew, she scored a TKO.)

As it turns out, though, I shouldn't have been floored by the notion of consuming one's placenta. In fact, a quick search of the Internet — the worldwide repository of all things icky and arcane — turned up a staggering variety of options for this particular delicacy.

The most popular method, it seems, is to prepare the placenta fresh with garlic and tomato sauce. It can also be made into a lasagna or a pizza, folded into a vegetable-juice cocktail or a placenta smoothie, or dried and sprinkled in a salad. At the cutting edge of placenta cuisine is placenta sashimi and placenta tartare (a breeze to prepare — just slice and serve!).

But still, I wondered, why would anyone want to chow down on their placenta? Again, the Web revealed quick answers: Besides providing solidarity with other mammals who routinely do the same thing and supplying a rich source of protein when you're least likely to feel like grocery shopping, placenta quaffing offers supposed health benefits as well. Some believe that the high levels of vitamin B6 in placenta ward off postpartum depression. Others claim that eating placenta can stop postpartum hemorrhaging.

Not everyone is pro-placenta, of course — one expert thinks that there may be a link between placenta consumption and mad cow disease. There are, however, no conclusive studies to back this up, nor are there any to confirm the benefits of sitting down to feast on your newborn's former food-delivery organ.

And this, as Dave would say in his best Monty Python voice, is where it really goes off into the weeds. It turns out that one's placenta options aren't limited to ingestion — there's also placenta art! You can make placenta prints using good-quality art paper (whether you use the placenta's own blood or wash it and apply colored inks — the choice is yours). And hey, you could always make your print and eat it, too.

With just a few clicks of the mouse, stories unfolded of artwork made from membranes that came out of the womb intact, stretched across a canvas like angel wings and framed. I'm a big fan of children's art, but I'm not sure I'm ready for actual body-part art — discarded or otherwise.

As I continued my research, though, my initial horror at the idea of eating, burying, or creating craft items from my placenta disappeared. It's amazing how quickly you can normalize something that used to make your stomach turn — especially when you're pregnant.


In the end, I came face to face with the best option available to someone who's recently come out on the losing end of the gross-out wars, but is now armed with a bucketful of gross new information on the subject: I called my sister back.

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[JamesR]

Even if this is a joke, doesn't it say something about Cruise that everyone immediatly thought it was true?

[bonnington]

CRAZYYYYY!!!!!!! IMO

[austin_spurs_fan]

li ke i said, Tom Cruise is this generation's Micheal Jackson.