18 Celeb Moms Who Ate Their Placentas (and Swear by it!)

Our apologies if you’ve just eaten. And if you were about to, you might not have much of an appetite for that tuna salad. Because eating one’s placenta doesn’t make for the most appetizing of mealtime chats, even if you are down with the concept.

For those who find it a little weird, a mom ingesting something made from her own hormones for a little babe she carried inside her kind of makes perfect sense. Some take it like a vitamin, others blend it into a shake while there are some who are perfectly find throwing it in a pan whole and fry it up like a steak. Whatever a woman decides to do — or not do — for her own health is up to her.

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Nikki Reed

It's bottoms up for Reed, who is finished taking her placenta pills now that her daughter is three months old. "Last day of placenta pills. Not ready to say goodbye!!!!!," she wrote on Instagram, before adding to all the other moms out there to do what feels right when it comes to parenting. You do you, Nikki!

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Kim Zolciak-Biermann

Kim's doctor's warnings of possible postpartum depression, especially after having twins, were enough for the Real Housewife to drink a placenta smoothie. She even made husband Kroy drink it. What a guy.

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January Jones

Jones, who supplemented her diet "with vitamins and teas, and placenta capsulation," after son Xander was born, laughed off those who found it bizarre. "We're the only mammals who don't ingest our own placentas," she told People in 2012. Hmm, she has a point.

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Padma Lakshmi

In Lakshmi's memoir, Love, Loss, and What We Ate, she also ground up her placenta and encapsulated after the birth of daughter Krishna. "I would have done anything to defend myself against collapsing from stress and fatigue and succumbing to the postpartum depression I was so afraid would beset me." The Top Chef host knows best.

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Holly Madison

After giving birth to daughter Rainbow in 2013, Madison announced on her blog that she was having her placenta turned into pills. Now this is a girl who's gone wild.

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Kim Kardashian

KK explained on her app that she had her placenta freeze-dried, made into a pill form and takes it that way, all to help prevent any postpartum depression.

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Kourtney Kardashian

The mom of three, who raves about the "life changing" pills, probably influenced younger sister Kim.

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Gaby Hoffman

Like Zolciak, the Transparent star made smoothies out of her. She had a home birth so it was her midwife and doula who "cut it up into 20 pieces and froze it" and every day for the next three weeks, she'd blend it with strawberries, blueberries, guava and a banana.

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Samantha Bee

"For me, it was like taking a megadose of iron, except in this case, the iron was generated by me, in my very own miraculous human body! What could be better?" the talk show host told Babble. "I wouldn't take one every day or anything, as they do make me feel ever-so-slightly jittery, but they are there for when I need them, and that comforts me."

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Alicia Silverstone

The Clueless star called them her "happy pills," which she started taking after her son, Bear Blue, was born in 2011, and was really sad when they were gone and were no longer needed.

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Tamera Mowry

Mowry made her twin sister, Tia, try her liquefied placenta (that's right, mixed with brandy and administered through a dropper) and because she's game, she did — and Tia didn't hate it.

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Coleen Rooney

After the wife of Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney gave birth to her third child, she sent the placenta off to a company that cleaned her placenta, checked it for abnormalities, sliced it up, dehydrated it, and ground it down into a fine powder which was then capsulized and returned to her. And that's how they do that.

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Natasha Hamilton

The U.K. pop star admitted that she could never be the one to chop up her own placenta (totally understandable) but after getting it made into pills (by someone else, obviously), the mom of four calls it "the best money I ever spent."

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Stacy Keibler

George Clooney's ex, who is all about clean living and organic everything, took placenta pills after the birth of her daughter.

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Kailyn Lowry

The Teen Moms 2 star loved her placenta pills, taking them daily after her second son was born, to stave off postpartum depression and help her sleep better.

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Mayim Bialik

The actress is more specific with the science of it. "Human beings are the only mammals that have chosen to not routinely ingest their placenta, which is consumed by every other mammal for its protein and iron-rich properties that are critical in helping the mother's body recuperate after giving birth," Bialik wrote in a blog post. OK, we get it, it's not gross.

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Blac Chyna

Rob Kardashian's ex-fiancee totally planned on eating her placenta before baby Dream was even born. Hey, if dogs and cats do it, why shouldn't we?

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Victoria Beckham

Technically, she never ingested her placenta. But Mrs. Becks used to get sheep placenta facials. And that's close enough, right? And not just any old sheep; these ones are specifically flown in from New Zealand and the $500 facials are said to do wonders to the skin. She wasn’t called Posh for nothing.