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‘Girls’ Star Gaby Hoffman Made Smoothies Out Of Her Placenta And You Can Too
Hoffman gave birth to daughter Rosemary on November 19, and attended the Girls season 4 premiere in New York earlier this week. It was her first night out since giving birth — “I’ve been home with my baby,” she explained. People Magazine asked her how she “bounced back” from having a baby, because of course they did. Gaby replied:
“Placenta, placenta, placenta. Just eat that s**t up, and it does a girl good!â€Â
Yes! Take that, stupid question only moms are asked! She went on to explain how she straight up dropped that thing into some smoothies and gulped it right down:
“I made smoothies out of it for three weeks. I had a home birth, so my midwife and my doula took it and cut it up into 20 pieces and froze it, and every day, I put it in a blender with strawberries and blueberries and guava juice and a banana, and I drank that s**t up.â€
I love everything about this. So often women – especially celebrity women – are apologetic about the choices they make in motherhood because others deem them weird or wrong. The old, “I know it sounds weird, but…” routine is a favorite of mine. I’ve done this often when explaining that my doula turned my placenta into pills which I then consumed after Kid #2 popped out, because I’d heard it helped with milk supply, energy, and overall wellbeing. It’s not something I share because I’m forever worried about what others will think of me. But Hoffman doesn’t seem to give a crap, and it’s what makes her comments that much more endearing and empowering.
I know the placenta thing is hotly contested and debated, and also grosses many, many people out. I was one of them, until the emotional ups and downs of my first post-partum rendered me desperate the second time around. Those little placenta pills were a life saver – I was happier, more emotionally stable, rested and had better luck with milk production. It could possibly just have been a placebo effect but it helped me, regardless. Hoffman’s upfront approach to discussing it makes me feel better about admitting it here, too. I support whatever it takes to survive motherhood, even if it means eating “that s**t up.” Bon appetit.
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