Nearly seven years after Tori Spelling last gave birth, something peculiar is still residing in her freezer – two of her kids’ placentas.
“I will comment on the last thing [that people] would think I have in my freezer though, and that would be my placenta,” Spelling, 51, stated during the “Misspelling” podcast. “Unsure which child. There’s two in there, so unless I have the biggest placenta in the world, there’s two vats in there.”
Spelling insists that freezing these biological remnants is “normal” and claimed that there are all sorts of “fancy stuff [new moms are] supposed to do” after childbirth.
“They say it’s good luck to eat it or it’s good luck to bury it or it’s good luck to have it sent and made into that powder and they put into pills,” Spelling explained. “I’m just too lazy to send it out. It’s a thing.”
Spelling continued, explaining the supposed benefits: “It’s supposed to be good for your body, and they take it out of your body and it’s good to put it back into your body.”
She admitted she wasn’t exactly sure which of her five children’s placentas are still chilling in the icy abyss. “A couple got lost” due to frequent family relocations. She is, however, confident that the placenta from her most recent pregnancy with Beau is resting comfortably in her best friend’s freezer.
“I’m really sorry to my best friend Jess because [Beau’s] is still in her freezer. And, you want to talk good friends,” Spelling remarked. “She came to the hospital the day Beau was born. She’s come to the hospital every birth … But because I had a C-section and we had complications and Beau had something [where] we had to stay in the hospital for a bit. I said, ‘Jess, can you take the placenta home because they’ve given it to me and I don’t know what to do with it?’ So she, like a proper best friend, did take it home.”
Spelling noted that Jess’s patience is wearing thin. Jess has repeatedly asked Spelling to reclaim Beau’s placenta at her earliest convenience over the last seven years. Unfortunately, those requests have fallen on forgetful ears.
“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,’” Spelling confessed. “I don’t take it back, but I’m going to. I’m going to one day.”
