Judi Love described a strange encounter with ‘placenta fried rice’ as the Loose Women panel reviewed souvenirs from their babies’ deliveries.
Kaye Adams, Stacey Solomon, Katie Piper, and Judi were discussing how parents save their children’s first shoes, strands of hair, and newborn teeth, as well as whether it’s appropriate to keep umbilical cords.
Stacey bemoaned not retaining the full umbilical chord, prompting Kaye, who discovered her own children’s in a ‘drawer’ someplace, to quip that she could’make a rope’ out of it.
Judi, 43, was reminded of the traumatising moment she almost ate her friend’s placenta without warning as the panel discussed their distinct mementos.
Judi, who has two children of her own, was at a baptism and munching into the amazing buffet dish, which featured a “special rice” that “everyone was talking about.”
‘I’m nervous,’ Kaye said, anticipating that this rice may not be what it looked.
‘I shared out a bit of the rice and my friend next to me went -‘ Judi laughed as she mimicked her friend urgently staring at her.
She continued: ‘I said “what” and she was like “It’s placenta in there”. Yeah.’
As the comic relived her own amazement at the unexpected ingredient, the audience and her other panellists gasped.
Katie hesitantly asked if it was ‘good for the skin’ to which Judi declared: ‘I don’t know, it just wasn’t for me.’
Some people believe that eating their own placenta helps breast milk production, energy levels, and even skin quality.
These health benefits are unproven, and we’re not sure cooking it with rice for the christening is standard practise.
More pressingly, Stacey wondered whether there was a label someplace identifying it as placenta rice – but this was seemingly gone.
‘Maybe I was just being craven and I saw the buffet food and just thought “here we go baby, take that” – and I was going to eat placenta rice,’ she continued.
Katie tried to reassure her she was in the ‘circle of special friends who get the special rice’, but Judi remained firm on not wanting to be ‘that special’.
With everyone in stitches, Kaye sounded a little concerned as she exclaimed: ‘Is that not cannibalism!’
Laughing the former Strictly star said: ‘I don’t know what it is but I’m not here for it. Each to their own but if you’re going to share out placenta fried rice then please can you let people know.’
Loose Women airs at 12.30pm weekdays on ITV and ITVX.
Source My Celebrity Life.