13 Well-known Mothers Who Consumed Their Placenta

The controversial observe is alleged to assist with postpartum melancholy and might promote a wholesome hormone stability within the physique in addition to enhance temper, vitality and milk provide, per the Mayo Clinic, nevertheless it’s not beneficial by many well being professionals. It poses the danger of carrying infectious micro organism and viruses that may be handed on to your child.

However regardless of the dangers, many celebrities are utterly on board for the observe. Many stars have been very open about their resolution to eat their placenta — and say it’s utterly benefited them, although it’s controversial.

Discover out what these stars needed to say about their placentas…

After Kim Kardashian welcomed her second little one in 2015, she shared that she was planning to encapsulate her placenta within the hopes of avoiding postpartum melancholy. She shared that she felt on the spot outcomes when she took the drugs and obtained a fast vitality increase.

“I’m having it freeze-dried and made right into a tablet kind — not really fry it like a steak and eat it (which some individuals do, BTW). Each time I take a tablet, I really feel a surge of vitality and really feel actually wholesome and good. I completely suggest it for anybody contemplating it!” she wrote in a submit on her former web site.

Mandy Moore has consumed her placenta greater than as soon as. When she welcomed her first child in 2021, she shared on Dr. Berlin’s Knowledgeable Being pregnant podcast that she had encapsulated her placenta. Then, after welcoming her second little one the next yr, Mandy posted to her Instagram story with a photograph of the capsules, writing, “Spherical 2 with @feelgoodplacenta.”

After welcoming her son Miles, Chrissy Teigen opened up about consuming her placenta whereas sitting down for an interview on CBS Sunday Morning. When host Rita Braver appeared skeptical in regards to the concept, Chrissy mentioned she was underneath the impression it was extensively practiced.

“Actually? That’s not a standard factor?” she mentioned through the interview. “I’m in L.A., it’s very regular. They grill it right here. You possibly can attempt a few of mine after.”

Katherine Heigl labored with a naturopath all through her being pregnant, so when it was recommended that she freeze-dry her placenta, she was all in. After giving start, she had an organization make the drugs and he or she started taking them.

“They instructed me that one other mom down the corridor had an organization that freeze dries drugs. This man got here, he was a complete cowboy: Cowboy hat, cowboy boots…and a bag of placenta! He took it to his spouse who freeze-dried it and turned it into drugs and I’ve been taking them,” Katherine instructed Folks.

Kourtney Kardashian has lengthy been a proponent of latest mothers consuming their placenta. Again in 2015 after welcoming her son Reign, she shared a photograph of her freeze-dried drugs and admitted she was going to be unhappy when she ran out.

“Yummy…PLACENTA drugs! No joke…I might be unhappy when my placenta drugs run out. They’re life altering!” Kourtney captioned a photograph on Instagram.

Sharna Burgess welcomed her first little one in 2022 and later opened up about her resolution to eat her placenta after giving start. Throughout an Instagram Q&A, Sharna shared that she took the drugs twice a day like a vitamin and defined that they’re “mentioned to assist with hormone balancing, milk manufacturing, PPD prevention and throughout restoration.” She credited the placenta drugs with being a part of her “superb” postpartum restoration.

“I extremely suggest this. So I had my placenta picked up by our child nurse who can also be a doula. She processed my placenta…and put it into capsules for me,” Sharna wrote on Instagram. “My restoration has been superb and my temper and milk the entire time have been constructive.”

Again in 2012, January Jones shared that she had her placenta dehydrated and made into nutritional vitamins. Whereas she admits she was initially “hesitant” in regards to the concept, she says it ended up being an enormous assist for her throughout postpartum restoration.

“It’s one thing I used to be very hesitant about, however we’re the one mammals who don’t ingest our personal placentas,” she instructed Folks. “It’s not witch-crafty or something! I counsel it to all mothers!”

Alicia Silverstone first revealed that she encapsulated her placenta in her 2011 parenting e-book, The Variety Mama. When later requested in regards to the expertise, she mentioned she was grateful she did it and felt that it actually helped by the postpartum interval.

“Somebody gifted me my placenta within the type of a tablet. They encapsulate it. I believed that’s innocent. I’ll attempt it. And I’ve to inform you that I actually liked it,” she shared on Dwell! with Kelly and Michael. “I’ve obtained to the purpose that my husband mentioned ‘Did you have got your glad drugs at present? And I used to be actually unhappy once they had been gone. It actually helped me.”

After welcoming twins, Kim Zolciak selected to eat her placenta within the hopes of avoiding postpartum melancholy. On the season 3 premiere of Don’t Be Tardy, Kim and her then-husband, Kroy Biermann, drank a placenta smoothie collectively.

“Dr. Hood has actually scared the s–t outta me with this entire postpartum melancholy, particularly with twins as a result of your ranges are by the roof and my pal Google instructed me consuming your placenta can assist with that. I can do something by my infants,” Kim mentioned on the episode.

In 2017, Nikki Reed shared that she had encapsulated her placenta and had been taking them every day whereas recovering from giving start. She defined that it had been beneficial by her doula and he or she was unhappy that she was nearly by her jar.

“Final day of placenta drugs. Not able to say goodbye!!!!!” she wrote on Instagram. “Ps sending like to all you mamas on the market doing no matter feels best for you! This was beneficial to me by my doula however that doesn’t imply it is for everybody :). Simply do you! ❤️”

After welcoming her daughter Banks in 2018, Hilary Duff revealed that she drank her placenta in a smoothie. Whereas she admits she was a little bit “wigged out” by the concept at first, she determined the potential advantages had been value it. From there on out, she started taking it in ice dice kind.

“It was probably the most pleasant smoothie I’ve ever had,” she shared on Dr. Elliot Berlin’s Knowledgeable Being pregnant podcast. “I haven’t had a smoothie that pleasant since I used to be 10. It was calorie-filled with juice and fruit and every part scrumptious.”

Teddi Mellencamp took her placenta in tablet kind following two of her pregnancies and says she observed a serious distinction. Whereas chatting on her Instagram story, Teddi defined that she felt a lot additional vitality when she had them.

“I’m, like, past obsessed. I’m scared for them to expire. I didn’t have them with Slate. I swear once I did them with Cruz and now once I take them with Dove, I’ve a lot vitality,” Teddi shared on her story.

In Padma Lakshmi’s memoir, Love, Loss, and What We Ate, she revealed that she ate her placenta after the start of her daughter Krishna in 2010. Since she had handled melancholy at factors in her life, she mentioned she did it within the hopes of “averting postpartum melancholy, one thing I feared greater than fatigue.”

“I might have finished something to defend myself in opposition to collapsing from stress and fatigue and succumbing to the postpartum melancholy I used to be so afraid would beset me,” Padma wrote.