Keeping Up With The Kardashians viewers learned Sunday that Kim Kardashian wants to eat her own placenta as part of an uncommon beauty trick to help maintain her youth after she gives birth in July.

During her ultrasound appointment she asked her family doctor about eating her own placenta after she learned she was having a girl.

"Why would a normal human want to eat their own placenta?" the reality star asked at first, then "Don't you think it makes you look younger?"

"Some people believe in that," her doctor replied. "There are cookbooks on placentas."

"Yuck!" her mother, Kris Jenner, said of the idea. "I don't think we're going to be eating the fountain of youth, if you know what I mean."

"I really want to do it," Kardashian told her.

Hollywood stars January Jones and Holly Madison have admitted they have and plan to eat their placenta after they gave birth. Jones revealed that she joined the growing after birth trend in People in March of 2012. She said it was her secret to maintaining high energy.

"Your placenta gets dehydrated and made into vitamins," Jones told the magazine. "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!"

Madison told Us Weekly before she gave birth to her daughter that she planned to jump in on the trend to help "recover as quickly" as she can. The forme Playboy Playmate also wrote on her blog in February: "This might sound gross, but I'm totally planning on having my placenta turned into pills I can take after giving birth," she wrote. "I heard it helps women recover faster ."

Watch Kardashian reveal that she would like to eat her own placenta on the Keeping Up With The Kardashians season 8 premiere episode here.

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