Tori Spelling says she still has two placentas from her children in her freezer and another one in her friend's freezer.
Tori Spelling has more than TV dinners in her freezer. The 51-year-old Beverly Hills, 90210 actress and mother of five shared on Friday's episode of her misSPELLING podcast that she's storing some non-food items in her kitchen.
Spelling revealed that the strangest thing she has on ice is her placenta. "Unsure which child, there's two in there, so, unless I have the biggest placenta in the world, there are two vats in there," she quipped.
Spelling also revealed that she and and estranged husband Dean McDermott once ate her placenta. "One time, my ex — I was on board — we cooked the placenta and ate it," she said. "Dean's an amazing chef, so, I mean… He cooked it and seasoned it and it was actually really good."
Spelling, who shares Liam, 17, Stella, 16, Hattie, 12, Finn, 11, and Beau, 7, with McDermott, defended keeping the placenta in her freezer, saying, "It's supposed to be good. It's something that's good for your body and they take it out of your body and it's good to put it back in your body."
Spelling's longtime manager, Ruthanne Secunda, asked, "Probably not store it in your freezer too long. How long has it been in there?"
Spelling admitted she wasn't sure which placentas were in the freezer, saying she'd check. But she also revealed that it wasn't the placenta of her youngest child, 7-year-old son Beau McDermott.
"I'm really sorry to my best friend, Jess, because [Beau's] is still in her freezer. You want to talk good friends?" Spelling mused, saying she asked Jess to take the placenta home from the hospital.
"I feel like she has asked me a few times over the last seven years to take that back and I say, 'Yep, next time I'm there!' And then I don't. I'm going to. I'm going to one day," Spelling insisted.
The daughter of the late TV mogul Aaron Spelling and Candy Spelling said that she didn't end up saving all of the placentas from her five children due to the family having moved in recent years.
"We move a lot, so unfortunately a couple got lost," Spelling said, before joking, "Imagine that, you guys, they got lost or left at a rental. Imagine you open up a freezer and it's Tori Spelling's placenta. That would be interesting to put on eBay."
ET spoke to Dr. Angela Bianco, OBGYN at Mount Sinai, who said there's actually no scientific evidence proving some of the claims around eating your placenta.
"There are some people that believe it can reduce the rate of anemia, that it can increase patients or women's protein levels and enhance energy and metabolism," she said. "There's no scientific evidence available to date in humans that any of these benefits are substantiated."
"There is some evidence in some of the literature outside of the United States, particularly in Eastern Asian societies, that is even ancient in its application that talks about ingesting the placenta, but in a very different manner, not using a third party or an outside entity and taking a placenta, brewing it and making a tea out of it again," she continued. "This has not been studied definitively in any sort of randomized, controlled trial. But it's used in other cultures as well. What I'd like to point out is the trend that's happening in the United States is having a commercial entity, a for-profit entity, come and collect the placenta, and then, as I said, encapsulate it. The issue with this is, there's no oversight of this industry. The process is not FDA approved, and there's no regulation."
Dr. Bianco said she does not recommend eating your placenta.
"I don't think that there's any scientific evidence that it really improves the postpartum experience and overall maternal health postpartum," she said. "I'm not in favor of eating the placenta at all. If you force me to choose a method whereby I would suggest, if I had to choose one, I would say that eating it immediately after birth might have some benefit. But again, that's not necessarily scientifically substantiated. And I also think, for obvious reasons, that is something that's really difficult to do for most people."
Spelling filed for divorce from McDermott earlier this year after 18 years of marriage. The actress has since opened up about their split and her family on the podcast, which she shared doesn't thrill her five kids.
"My kids are like, 'Ugh, Mom, stop putting us out there and talking about us.' And I'm like, 'It's kind of our day job. I don't know what to tell you,'" the single mom shared on her podcast in May. "My kids grew up on TV."
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