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When she’s not busy boning random husbands and fiancés (seriously!), January Jones loves to talk about eating her own placenta. Did I say that incorrectly? She ate the placenta that came with her son Xander. Last year she talked about it with People Magazine, saying: “I have a great doula who makes sure I’m eating well, with vitamins and teas, and with placenta capsulation. Your placenta gets dehydrated and made into vitamins. It’s something I was very hesitant about, but we’re the only mammals who don’t ingest our own placentas. It’s not witch-crafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms!” Many people slammed her for talking about eating her placenta, but if we’re discussing January Jones’ Mistakes In Life, I believe freeze-drying and eating a placenta is far down the list. So, January covers the new issue of Glamour UK (the April issue), and she’s still talking about placentas.
She hit headlines and divided opinion when she admitted she had consumed her own placenta following the birth of her son Xander. But now January Jones has come forward to reveal the reasons behind her somewhat unorthodox decision, saying that dehydrating the organ and eating it in the form of vitamin capsules helped her beat her baby blues.
Speaking to Britain’s Glamour magazine, January, 35, said that while her revelation caused a stir, she would recommend the pills to any expectant mother. She said: ‘I should never have told anyone about that. But it’s not gross or witchcrafty. Nor am I putting it in a shake or eating it raw. It’s a very civilised thing that can help women with depression or fatigue. I was never depressed or sad or down after the baby was born, so I’d highly suggest it to any pregnant woman.’
The placenta, an organ attached to the lining of the womb during pregnancy, is known to contain high levels of vitamins, particularly vitamin B6 – known to help curb postnatal depression.
January raises her son 17-month-old Xander on her own and has never revealed the identity of her the little boy’s father, but says she hates the taboo that often comes with being a single mother.
She said: ‘People keep saying, “Oh poor you, being a single mum”. But I don’t want to be pitied. I can do anything I want to do. I work, I date, I have friends. I have time for everything I had time for before. I just have an added amazing thing in my life. I don’t think being a single mum is something I need to feel sorry about or need to go to group therapy over. It’s really a joy in my life and that’s it. I have a great family and friends, and I know they’d be there if I needed help, but I feel like I’m doing it fine on my own. Being a mum is something I always wanted to do and I love it.’
January, who recently split from film director Noah Miller after a brief relationship, also spoke about her romance history, admitting that while she would love to date someone outside of her industry, it is too hard to meet people away from her work life.
The Mad Men star, who has dated stars including Ashton Kutcher and Jason Sudeikis in the past, said: ‘There was a time in my life when I said I’d never date another actor. But it’s hard to meet people outside of my job. In life, you tend to date the people who are around you, people you see every day. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to date someone who does our job, because it’s so transient. You’re never in the same place for long.’
And asked to describe her ideal man, January replied: ‘I don’t really have a type. But someone who is kind is important to me. Someone who I can have a laugh with, someone to trust.’
January continued: “It also really turns me on when someone is wearing a wedding ring, or when he’s talking about his fiancée. I get off on that. Like when Bobby Flay kept ordering drinks for me and then he kept talking about his wife. I try not to date actors, but ‘date’ doesn’t mean I won’t have a one-night-stand with Miley Cyrus’s fiancé. What were we talking about?” Anyway, I agree, there’s no shame in January choosing to be a single mother. She doesn’t need therapy for that or anything. But she might need some therapy for only being sexually attracted to “taken” men? Is that a ‘daddy issues’ thing?
Photos courtesy of Glamour UK.
Written by Kaiser
Posted in January Jones
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This woman just oozes bitchery. Like when I see her, I remember the creepy nanny in that movie The Hand That Rocks The Cradle. Like she won’t just bang your man & steal your children, she’ll kill you. Extreme I know but she gives me the heebie jeebies
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One can get vitamin B from eating any meat product, no reason to eat placentas. Eating placenta has been a way to keep predators away in the past, we have no need for that now. Neither it helps any better to beat baby blues than does just basic healthy diet.
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Who are the poor people who have to freeze-dry the placenta? Eating it in form of a capsula seems easy, but picking up the placenta and freeze-dry it? Ugh!
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Its more than just the protein. The placenta is full of hormones that can help regulate PPD.
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Yep. This whole post reminds me of the posts where attention is drawn to some womans cardinal sin of going braless,which happens several times a year. Sometimes this site is great, other times its just a bunch of uptight bitches squealing about shit they aren’t intelligent or broad minded enough to understand. Little lives, little minds…….
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“Eating placenta has been a way to keep predators away in the past”
-how beautifully ironic that January would be the one eating the placenta. Maybe we should give a few of those pills to her men?
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Omg. Hahaha @j.eyre.
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I ate mine, and am proud to have done so. So many cultures across the world do, and not just to keep away preditors. It helps SO much with hormone shifts! And as far as WHO does it, there are people who are specially trained how tl do placenta encapsulation. Many are doulas and are very naturally minded. It’s a great thing!
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I wish these women would make a distinction between being an average single mom and being a rich single mom with tons of help. The two are not the same thing and it’s irresponsible to young women to act like being a single mom is just life with a cherry on top. It’s not like that for most women without help or the financial resources actresses have.
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Good point, well made! She obviously has a lot of help!
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Exactly what I wanted to say! January Jones probably has more assistance and resources than many MARRIED moms. I don’t think she is in a position to speak on behalf of the typical single mother.
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Exactly! And all this talk about how great it is being a single mom pisses me off too bc it’s not a great thing for the CHILD. stop being selfish!!!!! These women have no idea what it does mentally to a kid to live without a father. This comes from a person who’s lived wo a dad their entire lives.
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Yes! What mom says they can still do all the stuff they did befor having the child? That’s a world away from most people’s reality.
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Though I agree that she should have a better moral compass when dating… she’s not the one married or engaged. Why are we not putting blame on the men who date her?
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I agree that the men who are cheating are douchey and deserve to have shade thrown at them aplenty.
In Jones’s case, it has to do with the fact that she appears to have a pattern of hooking up with married or taken men. It’s like she does it to prove she’s hotter, or whatever. No matter the reason, it kind of makes her a douche too.
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*waves* hey Izzy!
Yep – douchery all around.
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Hey j.eyre! *waves back
Is it douchery, or douchebaggery? I was never quite sure…
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I think it just depends on how lazy I am when typing. Most of my grammar rules fall under that caveat.
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Huh. I like that rule… Much easier when typing.
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They’re as bad as each other. If you’re single and getting with guys that you know are in relationships then as far as I’m concerned you’re as much to blame as the dudes.
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+1
I hate women (or men) who do things like that. If you like someone who is taken just make him leave his girlfriend/fiancee/wife before starting something!
Life’s not always clean breaks, but stealing men or women from their partnes is rude and egoistical.
(Like Miss Kiki said the ones cheating on their partners are equally to blame!)
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I can see it happening one time – I mean, sometimes stuff really just happens, as much as we pearl-clutch and claim that it shouldn’t. I think the issue is that with her it happens…and happens…and happens.
She obviously likes the “challenge” of an otherwise unavailable dude. I actually know someone like that in real life. I think she likes the high-highs and low-lows of that kind of relationship. Plus, it doesn’t really require much in the day-to-day context because it’s all about the sneaking and the getting-something-over-on-someone-else bit. I mean, you don’t see JJ actually ending up with any of these guys, right? That’s usually not the end game, I don’t think.
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Eh, I won’t fault her for the placenta thing. I know women who swear by it. I didn’t do it myself, though.
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I think it only works for the women who swear by it because they want it to (placebo effect). I’ve yet to see any reliable research that it actually does anything that over the counter products cannot do. It’s trendy in certain circles. That’s about it.
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^^^THIS ^^^
Show me the science. Panacea doesn’t cut it. It’s benign quackery at best.
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Stupid people..ITS WASTE that needs to come out after the baby is born..
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+1 I can’t stand when celebrities do stuff like this. Why don’t they drink their urine or eat poop as well?
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We are also the only animals who can go to the store and buy a steak to eat after giving birth. The only animals who have access to iron supplements. There is nothing magic about placenta, and when I give birth in 10 weeks, I plan on letting the hospital keep mine. I’ll have the petite filet, medium rare, with bernaise, thank you very much.
But this goes to show you how powerful the placebo effect is….. “i’m eating my placenta! I can’t get post partum depression now!” ok. Fine. Whatever works for you.
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+1
Plenty of mammals also eat their own young. I have a hard time justifying eating a placenta with “other mammals do it.”
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Yeah, as much as I love her and she’s pretty clean, frankly some of the stuff my dog does is disgusting. Cant say I’d want to model my own behavior or health habits after her.
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+2
Humans can no longer be compared to other mammals when it comes to things like these. Humans also don’t abandon their young in the wild a couple years after giving birth. We make our own comforts, we form lifelong bonds, and we have the ability to supplement ourselves with the nutrients contained within a placenta.
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Unless there has been a study that this helps with depression after a baby then I will be skeptical. She can do what she wants to do but should not tout it to others.
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I don’t watch “Mad Men” so I really don’t have any other reference points, but she kinda reminds me of a blonde Kstew… She always has the same expression in photos… Either studio or paparazzi photos… Woodenfaced. And her part in Xmen was flat as hell… She must be really good in bed to be hooking up with hot young guys like Miley’s Liam.
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Humans have no need to eat placentas…
For animals it provides excellent nourishment and saves them from having to go hunting when they are weak after child birth. This does not apply to humans. Just get someone to bring you food!
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1. Does she not see that perhaps single motherhood, like most things, is significantly easier for the well-off? The way. My life is structured, if my husband died, I would not have time for everything, and it would have to be my friends mostly shunted off to the side.
2. She might be right about the placenta eating, gross though it may be. I have a number of friends who will be doing this at the end of their pregnancies.
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So agree on point number 1. I am so tired of these actresses not making this clear distinction. For young, impressionable women, they will see so many actresses being single moms and think it’s so easy, but it’s not without lots of money and help, it’s hard as hell.
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Sleeping with married/engaged men is not a “daddy issues” thing, it’s a “I hate other women, have no empathy and will prove my self worth to others by only chasing taken men for the thrill” thing.
I have an ex-friend who tried to prove just how beautiful and better than everyone else she was by sleeping with men with partners. Notice my use of the -ex-.
damn I an grumpy without coffee.
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I understand the logic becuase it happens in nature that nearly all animals will eat teh afterbirth. It is beneficial for the mother and the young in terms of nutrition and hormonal balance, but mostly it prevents predators from tracking down the young so easily.
However no matter how good it might be, I could never possibly force myself to do it– I dont have the instinct and I have a gag reflex so it must not be something humans are meant to do. Or at least the majority of human women dont do it anyway.
I’d be curious to know whether certain cultures still practice this regularly?
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not really a daddy issue, I’d say more of an as-hole issue.. I really think she does it to prove that she’s more attractive and can have any man she wants, unaatached men would be too easy.
as for the placenta thing, I’m not a mother and have never researched it, so I have no opinion on that, to each their own.
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she has that sociopathic vibe to me. Love the blue sweater look tho
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I keep confusing placenta with placebo. Ok, moving on…
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Snort! very funny!
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Why on earth would she say that she is turned on by men who buy her drinks but talk about their wives? Was this taken out of context or was this exactly what she said? Was she trying to say that she likes men who love their women? I just don’t get it.
As for eating the placenta… its not akin to just eating a steak for the same benefits. Also, most placentas that are made into pill form are dehydrated not freeze-dried. This can be done in a dehydrator or in the oven… I have a link to the method if anyone wants it hahaha!
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The bit about the married guys was the blogger being funny, not a real quote.
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I am confused. Someone walk me through this. Is she really admitting she has no problems with a one-night stand with a married or engaged man? Is she also throwing Flay under the bus like he was hitting on her or was she saying she loves a man that talks about their spouse, that it impresses her? Or are these quotes even hers or are they CB’s funny take on her? I am going to get my coffee now to wake up and make my mind more alert.
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ahahah oh Jayna, I felt just like you…I had to re-read it back and forward to be sure that she wasn’t saying that somewhere in the interview. I think it was just a great imaginary monologue that Kaiser so eloquently put up…and I think it’s not far from the truth (I know ppl who think like that…)
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LOL Thanks.
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Epic douche-nozzle (a$$-hat, whatevs) of a human.
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I would rather eat a steak.
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I think it’s a new agey thing…all the new moms around me who want to do the “earth-mother” thing are having their placentas made into pills.
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Just wondering, who are the married men she’s dated/hooked up with?
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Bobby Flay, who is married to actress Stephanie March. Matthew Vaughn, her director in X-Men 1st Class (married to Claudia Schiffer).
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She seems crazy but you can’t deny she’s beautiful. She would have been the perfect choice for “Grace of Monaco” (I love Nicole Kidman but she doesn’t suit the part at all)
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Sorry but no Glimmer Bunny, if anyone should play Grace of Monaco it should be Scarlett Johannson,she is beautiful AND can act and unlike January is not cray cray.I like her on mad Men but she seems terrible in interviews,vapid and idiotic.I wouldn’t be surprised if the father of that baby was a married man.
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No, it should be Charlize Theron.
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I disagree on Scarlett playing Grace: Grace had a cool icy quality to her beauty – she was untouchable. Scarlett has none of that – she’s the opposite of that. Everything about her invites touch.
I think January would have been a good Grace – but I don’t even know if she can act. I’ve only seen her as a random Wisconsin bar girl in “Love Actually”
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I don’t really see this catching on. Maybe taking it in pill form will, but actually eating placenta seems really unappealing.
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You might want to check out STFUParents (or not, depending) if you think people out there are only consuming their placenta in pill form and its not catching on.
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Ugh, I’d rather not read about that thanks. Have you ever seen how nasty a placenta looks?
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Consuming ones placenta, usually in pill form, can help PPD & milk supply, among other things. It isn’t about the protein & people don’t sit down to big placenta dinner with a side of greens & a big glass of red. It is about the huge amount of hormones that are in the placenta.
I had pretty bad PPD & a TERRIBLE time nursing my son. I am pregnant with twins & am going to have the placenta(s) encapsulated as soon as the critters are born. It isn’t a fail safe by any means, but I want to do everything I can to avoid the bad, bad times I had when my son was an infant & this is something I’m more than willing to try. My husband thinks its nuts, but he doesn’t have to take them, so I don’t care!
Just like every damn thing about pregnancy & child birth, its not for everyone & thats just fine. The health of the babe & the mom are the most important thing & the second is personal choice & the right to feel good about what you chose.
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Cheers!
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Don’t put that off on us daddy issue girls!
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This girl is so blah…
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Maybe for us peons they’ll come out with Placenta McNuggets.
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How do you know they haven’t already?
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I’m jealous that nobody in my area will encapsulate my placenta
seems like a great source of nutrients to me :/
i try to like her but she just keeps on going for taken men. stop, just stop
can we blame ashton please? let’s decide that his douchiness screwed her up years ago and she never recovered
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This should shrink her pool of men, no? I sure don’t want to make out with her now.
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The Chinese herb name is Zi He Chi, and it is used in TCM to tonify the “yang” ~the warm, female part of yin & yang. It builds the blood as well, by giving it the raw ingredients to make MORE blood to replinish what is lost~with the placenta having the added advantage of providing incredible nourishment because it supported the growth of the fetus for 9 months, and still contains a rich supply of nutrients.
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And before anybody says “what do you know”, I have a Master’s Degree in Oriental Medicine, am a nationally certified Diplomate of NCCAOM, and Licensed Acupuncturist in Houston, TX, who has studied Chinese herbs intensively. So please, if you have more knowledge & credentials about this subject than I do~and still deny it and can SUBSTANTIATE that, than by all means, speak up. Placenta has been in use for thousands of years because IT WORKS, not because of superstition or urban legend~it gives the female body BACK some of the unique components that supported a pregnancy that the gravid period took out.
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that may be, but i still wouldn’t eat it; gross!!
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While I understand not everyone gives birth in a hospital, I never quite understood how people were getting to tote their placentas home with them. I mean, if I have a kidney out, I don’t get to take it home and eat it because it previously served an important purpose in my body and is probably full of nutrients.
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