Tom Cruise is intending to eat Katie Holmes’ placenta after his fiancée has given birth to their baby.

“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,” Cruise said in an interview with GQ.

Following his latest statement, the GQ interviewer pointed out that it would be quite a task to eat a placenta as it is rather large.
“OK, maybe I won’t,” the star of the forthcoming ‘Mission: Impossible III’ retorted.

Some believe that eating the placenta helps avoid postnatal depression, although that’s a condition that would apply to the mother — and not the father. Placentophagia, eating the placenta, is practised in many cultures, although it is less common in western society. In 1998 a British TV chef fried a placenta and served it to his guests. Rod Stewart and his wife Penny Lancaster took their baby’s placenta home and buried it in their garden.