Tom Cruise and his fiance, Katie Holmes, are expecting a baby shortly. A while back I reported on celebrities being weird parents and naming their kids after fruit and prophets... but Tom Cruise, by a landslide, wins the Oscar for most mental father of the year.First, Cruise forbids his wife to scream while she's giving birth. He thinks it's wrong for the first thing his baby hears is screaming. Like it'll remember. Second, he forbids her to use any medications to help relieve some of the pain, saying that it's not natural. And now, to top it all off, Tom Cruise has promised to eat the umbilical cord and placenta. Yes, eat it.
He said in an interview, "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."
Now, in some cultures, it was believed that if a mother ate the placenta it could prevent postnatal depression, although there is no medical evidence to back up that this is nothing more than superstition. However, there is no culture and no superstitions about any benefits to the father eating it.
Yup, Tom Cruise is a weird one.
3 comments:
hahaha he was one strangeeeee person. i mean who is he to say she cant scream or have medications he aint the one having the baby.
Actually.... if you've been watching the news/actual interview, you'd know that he was clearly joking about it. People are taken it out of context.
In any case, in some cultures it's tradition to eat it (I guess so it doesn't go to waste).
Can't say I agree with it, but to each his or her own.
I did see the interview actually. He didn't say he was joking, he said that maybe he wouldn't eat ALL of it after the reporter commented on how large a placenta can be.
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