McConaughey to Plant Son's Placenta in Orchard
Camila Alves and Matthew McConaughey by Mark Sullivan/WireImage.com
Matthew McConaughey is taking his "just keep livin'" philosophy - the name of his new clothing company - to heart. The actor and new dad told CNN's Sanjay Gupta that he plans to bury his son's placenta in an orchard to fertilize the land, similar to rituals he says are followed in several cultures.
In an interview with Gupta, scheduled to air in two parts Aug. 9 and 16, McConaughey discusses his hope that the birth of his son, Levi Alves McConaughey, will bring joy to others.
"It's going to be in the orchards and it's going to bear some wonderful fruit," he says, according to an interview transcript on
HuffingtonPost.com. "When I was in Australia, they had a placenta tree that was on the river.... It was this huge behemoth of just health and strength. This tree was just growing taller and stronger above the rest of Mother Nature around it," he added. "It was gorgeous." - Anna Dimond
