People reports January Jones eating own placenta as vitamin
Actress January Jones, AKA Betty Draper on “Mad Men,” returned to work just seven weeks after the birth of her son and was having a hard time keeping up her energy. So she started eating her own placenta to help, according to People magazine.
“Jones explained that her doula — otherwise known as a labor coach — prescribed her a remedy to help her get through the long hours.”
“ ‘I have a great doula who makes sure I’m eating well, with vitamins and teas, and with placenta capsulation,” she told the magazine, explaining that the process involves the placenta getting “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,’ she insisted. ‘It’s not witchcrafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms!’ ”
I guess I have heard of people eating placentas but what I have heard more of is people planting the placenta in their yards by a tree for the baby or keeping it in their freezers. I get that it would fertilize the tree. I don’t why they’re keeping it in the freezer.
So what do you think: Would you eat your own placenta? What about dehydrated and in the form of a vitamin? Have you heard of people eating their placentas? What have you heard of people doing with their placentas? What did you do with yours?
How did you keep your energy up after having the baby?
(Sorry for a second “Mad Men” mention but this is really about eating the placenta and not the show.)
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motherjanegoose
March 27th, 2012
6:14 am
NO. I have no idea what happened to the placentas after birth. I was exhausted after both children were born and while missing my sleep all the time but I moved on. I remember standing in the shower and bawling as I was so tired ( at 6:00 a.m.) and then I left each day to face a classroom of Kinders. I just put my game face on and moved forward. That was almost 20 years ago.
motherjanegoose
March 27th, 2012
6:23 am
oops…was missing sleep…sorry
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usually lurking
March 27th, 2012
6:58 am
Ick
catlady
March 27th, 2012
7:00 am
However, animals eat their placentas to discourage predators from catching the scent of their newborns. I was not too concerned about a lion getting my newborn.
LIke MJG, I just bucked up and went back to work when my son was 21 days old and my younger daughter was 16 days old. (I “got to stay home” with my older child for 3 months because I was unemployed) Weak and ill? Yes. Had a broken tailbone with one, “other complications” with another, and a uterine infection with the last one. But it was work or apply for food stamps. January Jones needs to buck up.
On the “planting”, my family believed in burying the naval stump so the baby would not have stomach trouble. It worked (so far) for my three.
motherjanegoose
March 27th, 2012
7:10 am
@catlady, our cocker spaniel was so jealous of our son, as he was our first ( dog) baby. He hovered near the two of us, slept right under the crib and followed us all day long. While changing a diaper, the stump fell off onto the floor and our dog ate it…maybe it helped him…haha!
A
March 27th, 2012
7:22 am
No, no and heck no. I haven’t a clue what happened to my placenta. I’m assuming it went out with medical waste at the hospital.
shaggy
March 27th, 2012
7:24 am
It’s good for cows, so I say, why not. Heck, she should take childbirth to the next primitive level. Forget the “doula”…whatever the hell that is…and just go out into the woods when labor starts. Squat and deliver. That is what really used to happen, and I guess still does somewhere that doesn’t have I-pads and text messaging.
However, I would hate to be the man, going in the freezer to pull out a pork roast for the grill, had too many beers, and thawing out some vitamin goodness for dinner. “Honey, call the doula and invite her over for barbecue. I have something special on the grill for her. She will love it, garlicky, and tastes like…chicken.”
Jeff
March 27th, 2012
7:42 am
We’re also the only mammals who can make contracts…………..
DB
March 27th, 2012
8:03 am
Oh, god, TWG, did you have to post this one for the breakfast crowd?! Gag!
Jim
March 27th, 2012
8:21 am
this is the most disgusting thing I have ever heard of
Jim
March 27th, 2012
8:23 am
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Voice of Reason
March 27th, 2012
8:23 am
They have a name for that. It’s called cannibalism.
Or, I suppose you could also equate it to picking your nose and eating the boogers.
Either way you slice it, it’s not civilized.
RJ
March 27th, 2012
8:24 am
I have no idea who this woman is because I’ve never watched “Mad Men”, however it seems gross to me.
☺☻Have A Smile!
March 27th, 2012
8:30 am
Sounds like this “January Jones” person was in desperate need of some media attention and here you go, another weird thing to get it.
yuki
March 27th, 2012
8:55 am
That is just disturbing. I’m sorry but no thanks. When I filled out my birth plan for my two kids, they asked if you wanted to “view” the placenta. Not eat it, or save it. I guess I could have requested to bring it home in a baggie but the thought certainly never crossed my mind. I quickly answered NO to even looking at it. Not necessary.
And by the way, I’m sure this January Jones has help, like a nanny, baby nurse, assistant or all of the above. I’m sure she is tired, but she should try working a full time job with no help. She needs to just buck up!!!
JATL
March 27th, 2012
8:56 am
Barf, barf, BARF! She’s not actually “eating” it though -in the sense of “Here’s the placenta, chow down!” I’ve read about the drying and encapsulating of it, but that’s still disgusting to me. There’s just no reason for it. Take a B12 shot! Take some iron. If you’re a wealthy celebrity, don’t go back to work so soon or have your nanny take the baby for a few nights while you catch up on sleep. There are SO many alternatives to eating your placenta. After it’s gone, is she going to start sucking on her tampons?
mary
March 27th, 2012
9:07 am
Gross. Placenta breath.
Beth
March 27th, 2012
9:11 am
F*ck the placenta. I ate my baby.
Me
March 27th, 2012
9:13 am
Huh?? And I’m unsure what Mad Men or eating placentas has to do with rearing children but, what do I know? I had honestly never heard of Mad Men until the previous blog topic…
But, I’m a guy on a “mom” blog so go figure…
kmariag
March 27th, 2012
9:16 am
Dehydrated or not. Ummm, ewwwwwww….
justmy2cents
March 27th, 2012
9:16 am
I’m with A on this one. Yuck. If I can go back to full-time work and full-time college 3 days after an emergency c-section, she can suck it up and go back to work….and by suck it up, I DON’T mean the placenta. Nasty.
Casey Anthony
March 27th, 2012
9:17 am
I should have used the placenta defense.
Dude in GA
March 27th, 2012
9:19 am
Awww!!!! If she burps after the capsule dissolves in her tummy, right before telling some “hello”, can you imagine the stinch!!!! Not Good….I think January forgot her lines on this one…..LOL…
FCM
March 27th, 2012
9:24 am
This should have been a topic…uh never…..I am pretty sure that had I had breakfast this morning I would have regretted it as I ran to the bathroom over this topic.
Dr Nick
March 27th, 2012
9:26 am
New mothers who plan on sending their kids to public schools should have to donate their placenta to the school lunch program. Make lasagna with it and help fight child hunger.
Atlantan
March 27th, 2012
9:28 am
Does she also enjoy her boogers in solitude….. pretty gross story.
Techmom
March 27th, 2012
9:36 am
@JATL – gag! did you have to go there [tampon]?? GROSS!!! (LMAO but it’s still gross)
We had this discussion on FB yesterday. “we’re the only mammals who don’t ingest our own placentas” Yes, and we also walk on two legs, have thumbs and can reason. For God’s sake, we also have brains and grocery stores with vitamins and food nor do we live in the wild.
By the way, the capsules do look like vitamins so I guess at that point, it’s not that gross until you think about what is in them but what grosses me out is the people who come to your house and pick up your placenta and process it into vitamins. Someone actually does this for a job! Or how about having to store it for a couple of days? “Gee honey, what’s this in the Tupperware container? Did someone bring us a meal? …. Oohhh nevermind.”
Cammi317
March 27th, 2012
9:40 am
This is BEYOND disturbing. I went back to work one month to the day that my daugther was born. Yes I was tired in between the lack of sleep and all of the nursing, but this is just too much.
Shay
March 27th, 2012
9:41 am
Encapsulating the placenta like a vitamin has significant health benefits that are proven. Not that I would expect these hillbillies here to actually do the research and understand that.
Hannibal
March 27th, 2012
9:42 am
Did she have it with some fava beans and a nice chianti?
Mad Russian
March 27th, 2012
9:46 am
The essence of the Paleo Diet. Yummy. Probably be good with a little bacon in it. Mmm… bacon.
Kar
March 27th, 2012
9:46 am
Just because your cat does it…
Techmom
March 27th, 2012
9:49 am
@Shay if this trend had started in the south, the rest of the world would be making fun of the “hillibillies” in the south who eat their own placenta but b/c some yahoo Hollywood actress or a tree-hugger out west says it’s healthy, we’re now the “hillbillies” because we call it like it is? [gross]
Shay
March 27th, 2012
9:54 am
I don’t know where the trend started Techmom, but it’s been around for a while. It’s nothing new. She is the first actress I have seen speak on it though. Use the “tech” in your name and Google it.
free
March 27th, 2012
9:57 am
i’m cracking up at some of these responses, lol. next we’ll have placenta infused teas, shampoos, and facial creams.
Soccer Milf
March 27th, 2012
10:03 am
I hear poo poo is a good hair conditioner. Maybe she should smear some on herhead.
Soccer Milf
March 27th, 2012
10:03 am
I ate Dylans placenta cause he is of the Gods….Carter not so much.
Willie B.
March 27th, 2012
10:08 am
After my circumcision I was sooo tired and it really hurt. I put that little skin right on a skewer, held it over the gas range ’til it sizzled and popped it in my mouth with some hot mustard. That’s the way we do it in the south, Shay!
Kenneth
March 27th, 2012
10:08 am
I dont know about that but eating other peoples doo doo is very tasty and chock of delicious corn nuggets.
Mom in Villa Rica
March 27th, 2012
10:09 am
When I worked in a Chicago hospital, we froze the placenta and it was sold to cosmetic companies. Check your shampoo ingredients! My thoughts are how do we know that the placenta in our beauty products come only from healthy, disease free women? YUK!
penny
March 27th, 2012
10:11 am
I would eat her and her placenta!!!
Homeless Horatio
March 27th, 2012
10:13 am
Ive been homeless for about 4 months now and starving. She shouldve donated that placenta to her local homeless shelter.
jarvis
March 27th, 2012
10:13 am
We’re also the only mammals that live in houses, have access to grocery stores and possess a working knowledge of vitamin supplements.
We’re also amont the only mammals that don’t ingest our own poo or lice from our mates’ hair.
I am Curious yellow
March 27th, 2012
10:15 am
MM MM MM…Fried placenta with onions is delicious.
Rhonda
March 27th, 2012
10:16 am
This seems perfectly normal to me. Sometimes I enjoy a nice glass of cat urine on the rocks. I hear is helps strengthen ones toenails.
FCM
March 27th, 2012
10:17 am
OK I feel I have to point this out:
Animals in the wild have been known to kill their young if they are “challeneged” or if the offspring is less not likely to make it in the world, they abandon it.
If humans did either of those things we would be in jail. So now does Ms. Jones advovate the above? Doubt it.
Another site said it best “There is a reason we do not do this, we are supposed to be CIVILIZED.”
FCM
March 27th, 2012
10:18 am
oops should say less than perfect and/or not likely to make it in the world.
Jules
March 27th, 2012
10:20 am
“Sewer rat may taste like punkin pie but I’ll never know.”
JeanE
March 27th, 2012
10:22 am
I always knew this chick was a complete idiot, this just proves my point. DISGUSTING!!!!!!!
hamburger steak
March 27th, 2012
10:25 am
When my boyfriends hemmohoids are inflamed I will place my cool tongue on them. But I dont eat them.
THe Necromancer
March 27th, 2012
10:27 am
I enjoy sleeping with dead people but I would never eat placenta. There are some things I just will not do.
Yolanda Weiner
March 27th, 2012
10:30 am
I bet her belly was tore up for days. Just imagine what her farts mustve smelled like.
nibbles
March 27th, 2012
10:31 am
She probably feeds her baby its own mookie stanks.
Pope John Paul the Turd
March 27th, 2012
10:33 am
Having sexual relations with little boys is one thing but eating placenta is against the catholic religion. She should be ex-communicated.
eeeb
March 27th, 2012
10:43 am
I’m considering encapsulating my placenta after I give birth in August. I know a lot of moms in Atlanta who have done it with great success. It nourishes your baby in the womb so it’s not a piece or poop or cat urine as some commenters have been comparing it.
Eaton Peters
March 27th, 2012
10:46 am
Ive heard putting the placenta up ones rear-end makes for easier entry in the anal cavity. Me and my boyfriend will have to get one of these placenta and give it try.
Van Jones
March 27th, 2012
10:49 am
I just threw up in my mouth a little…
Gwyneth Paltrows Doggy Style Nippers
March 27th, 2012
10:58 am
When I was a little girl I a piece of doggy doodee.
Penis Buffet
March 27th, 2012
10:59 am
I like to dine at the Penis Buffet and yes Im a guy!
Mr Ed
March 27th, 2012
11:02 am
I have some man put his his forearm up to his elbow into my cornhole once. Then he realized I was a boy.
bb3
March 27th, 2012
11:04 am
Didn’t they do something like that on a horror show recently?
Takin a Deuce
March 27th, 2012
11:04 am
I once had a girlfriend that enjoyed having different men urinate on her. She believed it was good for her skin.
iggy
March 27th, 2012
11:05 am
Yes bb3, wasnt that Human Centipede?
Al Jolson
March 27th, 2012
11:08 am
I always liked to smear doo doo all over my face and then sing “Mammy.”
Donna P.
March 27th, 2012
11:08 am
OMG. This is disgusting. Do you heat this thing up or eat it cold and raw? GROSS!
well_informed
March 27th, 2012
11:17 am
I am considering consuming my placenta after I give birth, and like the rest of you on here I was pretty shocked to learn that people do this when I first heard about it too. There’s enough evidence that there are many hormones, iron and oxytocin in the placenta that are beneficial to both the mother and the baby after a birth. The hormones can stop hemorrhaging (progesterone) and the oxytocin helps as a mood stabilizer. Also I’ve read that it helps with your ability to produce milk (so if you’re breast feeding that is a huge plus). As for the Iron, with all of the blood loss that you have after birth, for someone like me who is anemic, this is a huge plus. I wouldn’t discount this just because it’s not what you might consider “normal”, or what you think is a disgusting practice…. The placenta is an organ that you create with your body and then dispose of after birth, it’s not cannibalism, that’s a preposterous claim. The placenta is filled with stem cells and other amazing things that aren’t even discovered yet, why not eat it?
homeschooler
March 27th, 2012
11:22 am
Well, Theresa. Now you know what gets a lot of comments. WTH???
jarvis
March 27th, 2012
11:29 am
@well_informed, is a single thing you mentioned not available over the counter?
Ole Grandad
March 27th, 2012
11:30 am
“The placenta is filled with stem cells and other amazing things that aren’t even discovered yet, why not eat it?”
And potted meat is available on the grocery store shelves? Why not eat that, also…
jarvis
March 27th, 2012
11:31 am
By the way, to January Jone’s point of all mammals eating their placentas….does this include large whales that have no teeth? Or elepants that can’t eat anything off of the ground? Or bats who can only eat things that are moving because of their inability to see?
Mr GreenJeans
March 27th, 2012
11:32 am
“things that aren’t even discovered yet,”
And horse manure probably has things that arent even discovered yet but would you eat that?
Cheech Marin
March 27th, 2012
11:33 am
Ehhh man…I once smoked thees girl placenta…it was far out man.
Jed
March 27th, 2012
11:36 am
Proof that plenty of people still have a sense of humor.
Pamela
March 27th, 2012
11:39 am
THAT’S JUST NASTY!!!!!
Razz
March 27th, 2012
11:52 am
Ew.Ew.Ew.
Cindy Lu
March 27th, 2012
12:38 pm
Ugh…. no thank you… I’m full. Kidding aside, I would have to at least try a B-12 shot first…. Anyone have a toothpick, I seem to have some placenta in between my teeth?
Leigh
March 27th, 2012
12:55 pm
DAMN! I Coulda Had A V-8!
Tad Jackson
March 27th, 2012
1:02 pm
A lot of my students eat their boogers. That’s about all I can fathom right now. Thank you.
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John
March 27th, 2012
1:02 pm
but we’re the only mammals who don’t ingest our own placentas,’ she insisted.
We’re the only ones with a Space Shuttle too. Makes us a little bit better than all other mammals.
Marges Lover
March 27th, 2012
1:20 pm
Sometimes I enjoy eating my own toeJam. MMMMM….smells like parmessan cheese!!
BL
March 27th, 2012
1:39 pm
Why haven’t I seen this on an episode of Fear Factor?
CS
March 27th, 2012
1:45 pm
My midwife suggested I take my placenta and make a placenta print…I was just going to plant it with a tree. I did this and it turned out beautiful. I painted the background a color to match nursery then painted placenta on veiny side black and the cord too. placed placenta on the painting and laced cord to form a heart shape at end. It looks like a tree – everyone loves it and know one knows what it is until I tell them. Their reaction is usually priceless:)
James
March 27th, 2012
1:56 pm
There are a number of things that separate us from the other animals. Eating a placenta used to be one of them. What next?
FCM
March 27th, 2012
2:00 pm
@ wellinformed: technically you are right the definition of cannibalism is to consume the FLESH of another human being….I don’t think I have ever heard of a term that is specific to the human ORGANS and I quick google found nothing. I do think that to most of the population though the consumption of human organs (ala Hannibal Lector) is considered to also be cannibalism.
FCM
March 27th, 2012
2:01 pm
and i thought opposable thumbs were the distinguishing factor…that and God set us apart from the animals…but then why would Hollywood know that.
Diana
March 27th, 2012
2:29 pm
Mammals eat their own placenta to rid the birthing area of the mess and to remove the smell so as not to attrack predators to the nest and eat their babies. We have evolved past that and have other ways of hygiene. She is just plain wacky.
Jenna
March 27th, 2012
2:37 pm
This kind of topic is guaranteed to bring out the worst in people who are already pretty bed to begin with. Would I do what JJ is doing? No, but I don’t judge her for doing it either. She has made a choice that she believes is best for her. On the surface, it sounds a bit odd and, okay, even a little gross. But with some thought and opening my mind to other ways of thinking about this topic, I can see why she has chosen this path. Good for her. The judgmental and crass among you mean nothing to thinking, intelligent, compassionate people – just so you know.
Biggripatl
March 27th, 2012
2:40 pm
Some of yall folks on here need Jesus LOL
Leigh
March 27th, 2012
2:42 pm
I bet Paula Deen could put some butter on it and you’d never know.
pb
March 27th, 2012
2:44 pm
Just plain disgusting. We are not like all other mammals in eating their placenta, thank goodness. What a weird justification she has for doing it. Well, another pretty but self-absorbed Hollywood nut. And yes, Jenna, above, guess I am one of those judgmental and crass people ! So be it.
pj
March 27th, 2012
2:54 pm
It’s an old tradition (before modern times). I’ve heard “it’s the only meat you can eat without killing an animal.” and some of the nutrients you lose in pregnancy/childbirth are returned to your system when you need them most.
When I was having kids the thing to do was plant it with a tree in your child’s honor, which we did.
Drewbob
March 27th, 2012
3:10 pm
A high-school friend’s mom was a midwife and my friend used to claim her mother would make cocktails out of placentas after deliveries. Not sure if that was fact or fiction, but this reminded me – had not thought of it in years!
Protein
March 27th, 2012
3:12 pm
Placenta breath is a growing problem.
nate from detroit
March 27th, 2012
3:15 pm
I could eat my own crap and drink my own pee, but I don’t! Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you have to do it. I think it just shows that what we already knew, most of the Hollywood elite crowd aren’t exactly the sharpest tools in the drawer.
blkshepherd
March 27th, 2012
3:18 pm
Ok does she also add hot sauce, green peppers and garlic? or do she just have it Bland? perhaps with a little light salt and pepper. In any case I pass. I dont even think my dogs would bother it probably SHREAD it in pieces and leave it strewn throughout the yard. They can be very selective what they eat! You just cant feed them Anything, Not my dogs! They have Standards thank you very much!
Mmm mmm good!
March 27th, 2012
3:18 pm
Put some hot sauce on it and roll it in a tortilla and it tastes just like Taco Bell.
I swear.
Ingvar
March 27th, 2012
3:28 pm
What do you think the meatballs at the Ikea are made of? Ever wonder why they’re such a steal…and so full of vitamins too.
Aubrey
March 27th, 2012
3:35 pm
I’m shocked at how uninformed most of the posters are. Your cortisol levels peak at up to six times their normal level during childbirth and wash out right after birth. Much of your happy hormones are contained inside your placenta. I’m glad many of you put your big girl pants on, had crying fits, and moved on but why should you if you don’t have to? I’m not suggesting you make spaghetti and placenta meatballs but placenta encapsulation really takes the ick factor out of it. You are just taking a pill. A pill that is naturally designed to chemically rebalance you. Why wouldn’t you do it?
JATL
March 27th, 2012
3:39 pm
@everyone (almost) -thanks for the giggles! Most of y’all made me laugh and laugh!
joe in tucker
March 27th, 2012
3:40 pm
zippity do dah, zippity day,my oh my another dingbat today….
not SO weird
March 27th, 2012
3:47 pm
We weren’t inclined to eat the placenta any more than we wanted an afterbirth smoothie. But we did save the placenta that accompanied our daughter through her 10 weeks in utero. We wanted to plant it alongside a tree of her choosing, when she got old enough to choose one. That’s why ours was in the freezer for as long as it was! Funny story: it almost got mistaken for a venison roast and put into the crock pot! Can you imagine?
Wilburs BBQ
March 27th, 2012
3:52 pm
This is NOT going to be one of the new items on my bbq menu!!!!!!
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March 27th, 2012
3:54 pm
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jarvis
March 27th, 2012
3:54 pm
I’ve chewed on a nipple or two.
Enlightened
March 27th, 2012
4:01 pm
The Western approach to medicine and health has led to rampant heart disease, cancer, gastrointestinal problems, etc. Seems like some folk remedies and alternative medical approaches are worth investigating rather than dismissing as crazy. I mean just look at what is done to a patient with cancer – massive doses of toxic chemicals that nearly kill the patient and cause permanent damage to most organ systems along with ionizing radiation that is positively known to cause cancer. All this because radical diet changes and immune boosting therapies are considered “non-mainstream” yet have a long history of curing cancer and restoring sound health. Go figure.
Good for January for having the courage to expose folks to potentially beneficial alternatives to traditional medicine.
JMS
March 27th, 2012
4:02 pm
TMI
Yall going to get me fired
March 27th, 2012
4:08 pm
For laughing so hard at the responses at work!
Ok Enlightened, we get it. But still… it’s freakin’ PLACENTA!!
They don’t sell Flintstone chewables in Hollywood?
Irene
March 27th, 2012
4:08 pm
I had my placenta capsulized to assist with avoiding post pardem depression and increase energy. It worked. It’s technically weird because it is an uncommon practice amongst Americans, but if you do a little research, you may find that it is a very natural and wise practice.
jarvis
March 27th, 2012
4:10 pm
I agree with Enlightened. There are 22 countries in the world with an average life expectancy less than 55. Amazingly none of them are in the West.
I’m very surprised because while they don’t have much….all 22 have easy access to placenta.
Get a grip.
nique
March 27th, 2012
4:14 pm
Hmmm….seems like there might be other ways to get those nutrients. Like from non-placenta-ized vitamin supplements.
Jen
March 27th, 2012
4:29 pm
I encapsulated mine with my second child. The difference in the immediate postpartum time between the birth where I did encapsulate and the one were I didn’t was night and day. One I was exhausted, moody, depressed, and anemic, the other I didn’t suck it up and go about my daily business because there was nothing to “suck up”. I felt great. I was just blissfully in love with my new baby and and feeling physically great. I had a hemorrhage after both births and took around 6 months to recover on prescription iron supplements and about a month with the placenta capsules. I don’t talk about it much because I know it’s really weird to most people, but I did it and it worked for me.
Jen
March 27th, 2012
4:30 pm
Please excuse the many typos. Above mentioned second child was in my lap, “helping” me type.
Cindy Lu
March 27th, 2012
4:44 pm
Thanks for the laughs…. Hurrah for Hollywood!!!!
Apparently, this is no place for all you “Mary Poppins”, “Dorothy the Good Witch”, and Oprah lovers. Bwhahahahahaha
Will Jones
March 27th, 2012
5:09 pm
As Noble Jones’ mother was “Januarye Jones,” and he not only the captain and ship’s carpenter of the Georgia colony-founding “Anne” but also the commander of the detachment from Ft. Frederica, on St. Simons, which prevented Rome’s military invasion for conquest of Georgia at Bloody Marsh (replaced now with their promotion of illegal immigration our honorable governor is fighting, thank G-d), carrying the unusual name “January,” the placenta-eating actress is likely of Georgia’s finest blood and thereby worthy of consideration by all good and decent Georgians, who staying true to their noble heritage hold the key to a restored America, the New Israel.
Our bodies are a miracle from G-d. Each of us must work out his or her own salvation. If she is staying healthy and raising her gift from G-d righteously and healthfully in Hollywood Babylon, more power to her.
MeaneyMouse
March 27th, 2012
5:12 pm
MOMMMMMM MAY WE HAVE MORE PLACENTA PLEASE!!
Trayvons Mom
March 27th, 2012
5:14 pm
I just want to say that I have keeps Trayvons (copyrighted) placenta and will be selling it on ebay this afternoon!
Sam
March 27th, 2012
6:01 pm
“We’re also the only mammals who can make contracts…………..”
And the only ones who wear contacts.
Brennan Huff
March 27th, 2012
6:03 pm
I once had a belly full of white dog crap. But not by choice.
DebDoes
March 27th, 2012
6:39 pm
Yes, I know someone who has it in vitamin form now; yes, breast milk is good for skin irritations…..there are a lot of immature comments/people here. It is a wonder you all survived, but there is still a chance that natural selection will take place.
homeschooler
March 27th, 2012
7:52 pm
It is unbelievable to me that you, Theresa, get 52 comments on child literacy (a fey days ago). and 118 on an over paid actress who eats her own placenta. The film “Idiocracy” comes to mind.
Lorraine Newman
March 27th, 2012
7:53 pm
That’s why we have Placenta Helper.
homeschooler
March 27th, 2012
7:53 pm
*few
Johnjon
March 27th, 2012
8:03 pm
I think I just threw up a little.
reality
March 27th, 2012
8:17 pm
R U Kiddng Me? Wow your tired .. No sympathy..I’m sure she has a housekeeper, a nice trailer to go to work in everyday where she doesn’t have to cook(food provided on set!), a nanny and now you listen to some Hollywood fruitcake who probably charges you a ridiculous amount of money to SERVE you your placenta..HERES REALITY..try waking up in the morning at 5 to do laundry, get your kids off to daycare, pack lunches, and drive YOURSELF to work In ATL traffic then drag yourself back home to a baby that is up all night then do it all over again..
Debi
March 27th, 2012
8:18 pm
I am an RN and lactation consultant…….this is not uncommon among moms I see and who deliver at our hospital. Not wierd or gross but seems to be theraputic. Anecdotally, it seems moms who had poor milk supplies with first babies have developed great milk supplies with 2nd babies when they took placenta capsules. Several moms I know swear by it for postpartum blues!
It is so sad to see how closed-minded people are.
LaDonna Normand Brown
March 27th, 2012
8:38 pm
If we all could look like “January Jones” maybe we should give it a go…Who knows what we ingest in a capsule that we don’t know about. As far as face creams it has been used or a form of.
Leigh
March 27th, 2012
10:38 pm
Honey? I’m starving! Is there any of that placenta left?
tommyt63
March 27th, 2012
10:39 pm
yeah idiot ..we’re the only animals that use toilet paper too. Should we change that to regress to lower order animal status as well. These actors are basically idiots that don’t really have anything going on in their lives to gamble when they go to Hollywood to roll the dice. Why do we care what they do?I will never understand the fascination with people who live in fantasy world
Will Jones
March 27th, 2012
11:06 pm
fyi: Art leads life, and “Mad Men” is the only show on TV, to my knowledge, which took the trouble to devise a scene and circumstance in a story line to portray the true reaction of the false-elite Bush/Rockefeller faction (Francis’ “comforting” January) to the assassination of President Kennedy they ordered or condoned, by CIA colonel E. Howard Hunt, GHW Bush, and Richard Nixon.
That makes it a righteous, patriotic work which all true Americans should appreciate, by G-d, to better understand the same faction’s thinking in committing 9/11 abetted by the Jews of Mossad and PNAC.
Sami Jones
March 28th, 2012
12:03 am
No Beth, the dingo ate your bay-be
auburn loser
March 28th, 2012
2:08 am
Placenta, placenta. What’s all the fuss about? Look, there are many ways to cook it. The best way is to marinate with garlic, tarragon and lime juice, and grill to a medium rare. Better than filet migon.
Best with Guinness, and sweet potato fries. mmmmmmmmmmm.
auburn loser
March 28th, 2012
2:17 am
and if you’re in a pinch…you can always use a pubic hair to clear any placenta that is stuck between your teeth. the moral…it’s always better to try and suck placenta thru a straw, so as to not
get any caught in your teeth.
nora
March 28th, 2012
5:43 pm
Cry me a river, Miss Hollywood Star who probably has a full time nanny in addition to her doula. Boo-hoo-hoo. The rest of us did the best we could with new motherhood – and the majority of us left the placenta at the hospital to be made into cosmetics. ;)
Trey
March 28th, 2012
9:00 pm
Disgusting. What’s worse is that this was written about. Hey, I saw a man picking a huge, bloody booger out of his nose at the grocery store, he ate it. Do you want to report about that, too? It’s full of iron and vitamins, as it was covered in blood.
Matt
March 28th, 2012
11:38 pm
I just puked in my mouth.
Mmm mmm good!
March 29th, 2012
9:26 am
“yeah idiot ..we’re the only animals that use toilet paper too. ”
Not true. I know several people that wipe their dogs after doing the deed. Indeed, my mother used to make us wipe our dearly departed Charlie’s a**. She did not want bacon strips on the carpet.
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