Say it ain't so - Tom Cruise to eat Katie's placenta

[MindLikeAParachute]

LIFE STYLE EXTRA (UK) - Dad-to-be Tom Cruise has vowed to eat the placenta of his newborn baby and plans to dine on the umbilical cord too.

The actor's bizarre plans are sure to shock his legions of fans but the Hollywood heavyweight insists he plans to cook the unusual meal after fiancée Katie Holmes gives birth.

The 43 year-old star told America's GQ magazine: "I'm going to eat the placenta. I thought that would be good. Very nutritious. I'm going to eat the cord and the placenta right there."

Cruise, a devoted Scientologist, made the decision after reading the afterbirth contains important nutrients and vitamins.

The 'Mission Impossible 3' star - who has been carrying out medical scans on the foetus with his own ultra-sound machine - has also told Holmes she must give birth in silence, in accordance with Scientology teachings, so the baby isn't traumatised during the birth.

The couple have been holding family pregnancy classes in their Beverley Hills home.

Cruise revealed: "We've been studying what a woman goes through, what happens to a woman's body."

The actor is not the only star to indulge in strange behaviour with his baby's placenta practice.

Rod Stewart and fiancée Penny Lancaster celebrated the birth of their son Alastair by covering his placenta in tea tree oil and burying it in their garden.
http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowbizNews.asp?Code=AY182055S&headline=tom_cruises_placenta_plans

And posted on a number of other "news" sources as well... :eyes:

[alarimer]

1. if this is true, he is completely out of his mind.

As if that was not already obvious.

[philosophie_en_rose]

2. Um...

I understand that eating placenta is popular with some people, though cannibalism is too much for me.

Eating for religious or spiritual reasons, I can understand.

But vitamins?


Get that man some Centrum.


Save the cord (especially) for the stem cells.

[Bridget Burke]

3. Some Olde Hippye Teachings say the placenta....

Is full of hormones that the mother needs. (These were the same ladies who suggested spending That Time of the Month squatting in the vegetable patch to return valuable nutrients to the Earth.)

Perhaps Tom suggested this to Katie & she declined the privilege.

And--since he's claimed he wants to marry her--what is stopping him? Waiting for a Big Hollywood Media Event Wedding when she's slim enough to fit into a white dress? There is NO shame in marching up the aisle pregnant. Or having a private wedding & throwing a big party later--when the Mom can have some champagne.

Married or not, she will eventually get a BIG settlement out of this.