Tom Cruise to Eat Placenta

[Murphy]

I'm serious, this guy now officially is a freak!

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_obje...name_page.html

18 April 2006
EXCLUSIVE: TOM CHEWS
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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[pache100]

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.

He's talking out of both sides of his mouth, then. He reported on one of the morning talk shows yesterday that he has had a special mouthpiece made for Katie's mouth so she won't make noise during the birth. So, which is it? Either he's got a split personality or he's lying to somebody.

What a freak he's turned out to be. And he had so much potential.

[ObiwanGinobili]

to me it's funny that that peice is from the daily mirror.

Wjhen I was growing up my neighbors were from england, after the birth of thier 5th child they had a large party where the featured item was Placenta Pie....... they made it seem like everyone from thier area does it.

[midgetonadonkey]

Placenta isn't that bad. It makes a nice dipping sauce for wings.

[CosmicCowboy]

It's actually pretty normal in nature. Mother cows eat the placenta probably 90% of the time. I don't really know why but I always just assumed it was an anti-body thing for their milk.

[Extra Stout]

Does anybody notice how Tom Cruise starts acting weird every time one of his movies is getting close to premiere?

You might think his act is some kind of publicity stunt or something.

[ObiwanGinobili]

Does anybody notice how Tom Cruise starts acting weird every time one of his movies is getting close to premiere?

You might think his act is some kind of publicity stunt or something.

oh it definatly is.
Tom & Katie were virtually no where to be seen most of oct, nov & dec.

but now MI 3 coming up in May.........

[lebomb]

He is a fool and Scientology is for fools. I hope he chokes on the placenta and dies right on the spot. Now THAT would be cool.

[midgetonadonkey]

I wonder if all celebrities are now going to eat placenta to promote their movies. If an actor or actress actually goes as far as eating the after birth, I will definitely go see their movie.

[CosmicCowboy]

If he really does it "nature style" and starts at one end like a cow and gulps it down like a giant slimy oyster I will be really impressed...

[Hook Dem]

If he really does it "nature style" and starts at one end like a cow and gulps it down like a giant slimy oyster I will be really impressed...

A little more horseraddish please!

[CosmicCowboy]

here are some recipes if you guys are interested...

http://www.mothers35plus.co.uk/plac_rec.htm

[Jekka]

A woman who has just gone through childbirth has a reason to eat the placenta, or at least part of it, because the hormones it contains help to taper blood flow after birth. Tom Cruise, on the other hand, has no reason to eat one.

[ShoogarBear]

A woman who has just gone through childbirth has a reason to eat the placenta, or at least part of it, because the hormones it contains help to taper blood flow after birth. Tom Cruise, on the other hand, has no reason to eat one.

Except that it would be the first time he ate any part of a woman.

[Melmart1]

I saw a do entary or something with a segment on this a few years back. It was in the UK somewhere, and they froze the placenta after the baby was born. Then, after a few days to let the mom recover, they fried it up and made a pate out of it. They served it with crackers and invited people over to eat with them. Most people seemed unphased and even complemented how it tasted.

There were a few who refused to try it, instead eating the other non-placenta food. The baby was the centerpiece of the celebration and it seemed like any other gathering I guess. I guess my mind still can't wrap itself around someone eating anything that came from my uterus, but to each their own.

[SpursWoman]

I wish I would have known this 3 weekends ago when my cat miscarried a litter of kittens all over my patio. There was more than enough placenta to go around for a GTG at my house.

[Pistons < Spurs]

I saw a do entary or something with a segment on this a few years back. It was in the UK somewhere, and they froze the placenta after the baby was born. Then, after a few days to let the mom recover, they fried it up and made a pate out of it. They served it with crackers and invited people over to eat with them. Most people seemed unphased and even complemented how it tasted.

There were a few who refused to try it, instead eating the other non-placenta food. The baby was the centerpiece of the celebration and it seemed like any other gathering I guess. I guess my mind still can't wrap itself around someone eating anything that came from my uterus, but to each their own.

Yep, I remembering seeing the same show. I thought it was disgusting then, and I think it's disgusting now.

[Spurminator]

I'm beginning to think he's just screwing with the Media.

[midgetonadonkey]

Couldn't this be seen as a form of cannibalism?

[Pistons < Spurs]

Couldn't this be seen as a form of cannibalism?

my exact thought aswell. How could it not?

[Solid D]

Yeah right, Tom....

you'll eat it if the alien inside you doesn't beat you to it.

[CosmicCowboy]

I wish I would have known this 3 weekends ago when my cat miscarried a litter of kittens all over my patio. There was more than enough placenta to go around for a GTG at my house.

[katyon6th]

Diane Sawyer interviewed him the other night and asked him about this eating placenta and he specifically said it was untrue.

Don't get all crazy people. Geez.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

[leemajors]

I'm beginning to think he's just screwing with the Media.

he is bat crazy, do not doubt that. the placenta is very very nutritious though, and every mammal eats it immediately after giving birth to replace the loss of nutrients the mother experiences after expelling the placenta, and it supposedly helps with port-partum depression. but there is no reason for the father to ingest it, and tom cruise and every scientologist alive are raging lunatics and worthy of the scorn heaped upon them.