The placenta forms even before your baby does, it plays a huge role in your pregnancy as it delivers nutrients, oxygen and hormones to your baby whilst also working as a filter to ensure all waste products via the umbilical cord. When your baby is born, it’s usually a case of being so distracted by them that you’re not thinking about anything else. However, there are some celebrity moms who have conserved their placenta to consume at a later time.
Hilary Duff
Hilary and her husband Matthew Koma introduced their daughter, Banks Violent in 2018. It was an all natural and drug-free water birth. Hilary revealed at a later date that she drank her placenta and described it as like drinking a smoothie.
Mandy Moore
Following the birth of her second son, Moore decided to create some Feel Good placenta pills. However, she had also had her placenta encapsulated after the birth of her first son in February 2021.
Tia and Tamera Mowry
Reality show star Tamera Mowry-Housley, who had recently given birth, encouraged her twin sister Tia to try her placenta. Although Tia was hesitant at first, Tamera convinced her by adding a small amount of brandy to the placenta mixture, which Tia ultimately drank.
Tia said, “If you think about it too much, you’re not going to like it, because all you’re going to think about is that you’re consuming placenta. But I was surprised that it tasted pretty good mixed with a little bit of alcohol.”
Padma Lakshmi
“It’s not as gross as it sounds,” she said in an interview. “I just took two placenta pills in the morning with my coffee.” She followed with a joke, “No, I didn’t sauté it with onions and have a glass of Chianti.”
Katherine Heigl
Katherine had a c-section with her son Joshua in 2016. Whilst in hospital, there was a mother down the hall who had a company that freeze dried pills. So, Katherine did nothing more than had her placenta encapsulated after Joshua’s birth.
Nikki Reed
Nikki had her placenta encapsulated after the birth of her daughter Bodhi in 2017. Nikki even stated that she was a bit sad when she realized the pills were almost gone.
Christina Haack
Haack let everyone know that she consumed her placenta just a week after the announcement of her son in 2019 with. She decided to have her placenta put into pill form and even shared a photo of the pills to her Instagram story.
Kourtney Kardashian
After the birth of Reign, her third child with Scott Disick, Kourtney posted a picture onto Instagram to show her placenta pills. With the photo, she posted: “Yummy… PLACENTA pills! No joke… I will be sad when my placenta pills run out. They are life changing!”
Kim Kardashian
Kim Kardashian decided to encapsulate her placenta after the birth of her second child. She did this in order to avoid postpartum depression. Kim explained, “I’m having it freeze-dried and made into a pill form – not actually fry it like a steak and eat it (which some people do, BTW). Every time I take a pill, I feel a surge of energy and feel really healthy and good. I totally recommend it for anyone considering it!”
Gaby Hoffmann
“I made smoothies out of it for three weeks. I had a home birth, so my midwife and my doula took it and cut it up into 20 pieces and froze it, and every day, I put it in a blender with strawberries and blueberries and guava juice and a banana.”
Khloe Kardashian
January Jones
“Your placenta gets dehydrated and made into vitamins. It’s something I was very hesitant about, but we’re the only mammals who don’t ingest our own placentas.” Whether considered mad mom or perfectly sane, consuming your placenta still remains a controversial topic.
Chrissy Teigen
Teigen was also looking to avoid the “baby blues” after the birth of Miles, her second child with her husband, John Legend, and so, she decided to eat her placenta. She explained that doing this, she felt much better than she did after the birth of her first child, Luna. Chrissy jokes with Rita Braver, who was very skeptical about placenta eating, and said, “Really? That’s not a normal thing? I’m in L.A, it’s very normal. They grill it here. You can try some of mine after.”
Alicia Silverstone
“Someone gifted me my placenta in the form of a pill,” the star wrote in her Kind Mama book, “They encapsulate it. And I have to tell you that I really loved it.”
Mayim Bialik
“I ingested my placenta,” she wrote. “I am not a bad person, a crazy person, or a freak, and neither is Alicia Silverstone or January Jones. There is no evolutionary benefit to us being created with a placenta that is not perfectly healthy and wonderful to ingest. It is. Yum!”
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