The Most Controversial Advice Celebrities Have Given Fans

Celebrities seem to have it all: the style, the money, the success, the perfect skin that apparently defies age. Unless they are Dr. Phil, who is still a spokesperson for diabetes rather than a psychologist. Although “he has a doctorate in psychology,” “he is not a licensed psychologist,” according to Vox.

However, many of us still find ourselves following the advice of our favorite A-listers, especially those who tow the pseudo-doctor line, but what we don’t recognize is that most of these celebrities could get their information the same way we do it: from Google, YouTube, your friendly taxi driver or your childhood best friend.

This sometimes generates bad advice that can even be dangerous. Think about it the next time you push a crystal into your you know what. This is the most controversial celebrity tip you could take.

Gwyneth Paltrow’s adventures on Goop have been criticized for being out of touch. Do you remember your failed food stamp experiment? What about her 300 calorie/day diet, or when she suggested that women steam clean their lady bits and someone end up with second-degree burns?

Still, few of Paltrow’s suggestions have attracted as much attention as her jade egg. So what is it? A piece of jade in the shape of an egg (or quartz depending on the model) that you should put where the sun does not shine.

In a Jimmy Kimmel Live interview, Paltrow stated that eggs are used in “an ancient Chinese practice” that “helps tone the pelvic floor.” According to Health.com, Goop also claimed that it could “balance your menstrual cycle” and “improve your sex life,” but gynecologists didn’t buy it. In fact, women’s health experts claimed it could harbor the type of dangerous bacteria that causes toxic shock syndrome. In other words: stop putting things there that aren’t meant to be there!

According to The New York Times, the Paltrow lifestyle website was finally sued for the eggs, and an additional aromatherapy product that they say could prevent depression. After an investigation, Goop was ordered to pay a $ 145,000 fine for making unsubstantiated marketing claims, but that’s a small price for an epic round of free press. In a separate New York Times profile, Paltrow revealed that she uses these controversial moments, which he called “cultural firestorms,” to “monetize those eyeballs” that visit his site. Yes, even the rich like clickbait.

Shailene Woodley embarrasses Goop with what she calls her “pretty alternative” lifestyle. She “gathers” mountain spring water monthly, forage for “wild food”, and makes her own toothpaste. Maybe she’s training to replace Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games. Maybe she is training for Naked And Afraid. Who knows? All we know is that the star “makes its own medicine” and not “get it from the doctors,” at least that’s what she told Flaunt. She may not be a pharmacist, but she could play one in a movie!

While Woodley is likely to trust home medicine if she falls seriously ill, she has been doing her best to improve her health by eating clay on the advice of her taxi driver. The star said Into the Gloss that “clay is one of the best things you can put on your body … apparently it provides a negative charge, so it binds negative isotopes.” She also claimed that it makes your stools smell like metal, which supposedly means that it is ridding your body of heavy metals.

Before starting to eat your clay masks like that woman from My Strange Addiction we know that the body is already detoxified. Hello, kidneys and liver. According to HuffPost, eating clay is “mainly harmless” but there is no evidence that it removes toxins from the body. Beyond that, our bodies need certain metals to survive.

There is a time in your life that autocannibalism is partially acceptable, at least if you are January Jones. In an interview with People, the Mad Men Star advocated eating her own placenta. “It is something that I doubted a lot, but we are the only mammals that do not ingest our own placentas,” she said, adding: “I suggest it to all moms.”

The practice of eating your own placenta, whether “dehydrated and turned into vitamins” as Jones preferred, or cooked in lasagna, as some people actually do, has been viewed as a way to speed recovery from pregnancy and avoid postpartum depression. It is common in many cultures, but according to ABC News, there is no real evidence to show that it has any human benefit. In fact, counseling can be dangerous because postpartum depression can lead to suicide. You need real treatment. Then there is the bacteria.

Parents report that the dehydrated placenta pills were related to a case of a newborn developing “a dangerous blood infection” that was related to the breastfeeding mother and consuming the encapsulated placenta. The organ, which filters toxins into the uterus, may be contaminated with bacteria, possibly because of this the FDA has not approved the use of placental pills, as of this writing. That being said, research has shown that the organ is packed with nutrients, but… multiple vitamins still exist, right?

You can’t throw a single stone on Instagram, or refresh your browsing page, without coming across a sponsored ad for a weight-loss product, but Jameela Jamil is the only celebrity you can count on to call it all.

The Good Place star criticized Kim Kardashian for promoting appetite suppressant lollipops as well as criticizing Cardi B for promoting detox tea. “GOD, I hope all these celebrities put their pants on in public, like poor women who buy this nonsense on recommendation,” she said in a tweet addressed to the rapper.

Cardi knows how to handle tea, so she shook herself with a bit of humor. According to Vulture, Ms. Migos replied in an Instagram re-post of Jamil’s tweet that she won’t shit her pants “because there are public toilets everywhere… ooooo and bushes”. Jokes aside, doctors still warn that detox teas do more harm than good, and we’re not just talking about emotional scars from squatting in the bushes next to the road.

According to Women ‘s Health, detox teas are promoted primarily as cleaners that free the body of toxins harmful and/or help you lose weight while reducing bloating. They can actually make your problems worse. According to the report, teas can exacerbate bloating “by drawing more fluid from the intestine” and cause weight gain by putting your body “in starvation mode.” Also, your body is already rid of toxins without help.

Sean Connery had better be kissing the ground Al Gore walks to take his time to create the Internet because if the actor spoke today, it would have spread on social networks like a forest fire. People have been canceled for much less. Just look at what happened to James Charles for (allegedly) promoting the gummy vitamins behind Tati Westbrook’s back.

While we can all agree that any form of violence is inadvisable, the Goldfinger star advocated for domestic abuse in a disastrous 1965 Playboy interview. “I don’t think there is anything particularly wrong with hitting a woman … A slap with open hands is justified,” he said, adding: “If a woman is a bitch or hysterical … I would.”

Obviously, Connery’s opinion received harsh criticism, but Barbra Walters gave him an opportunity to explain himself. Rather than smooth things over, he claimed he had a “violent temper” and doubled over feeling justified in hitting a woman “as a last resort” to end an argument. “Women are pretty good at this. They can’t leave him alone. They want to have the last word, and you give them the last word, but they are not happy with the last word. They want to say it again,” he said. “Then I think it is absolutely correct.” Clearly, James Bond’s brain has been shaken, not stirred. According to a United Nations report, domestic violence is the leading cause of female homicide.

In 2005 Tom Cruise sounded like the “simplistic” heard around the world. During a bizarre interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer, the Scientologist made a heated tangent about how Brooke Shields should never have used antidepressants and psychiatry to aid her in her postpartum depression. Rather, you should have resorted to other methods such as “vitamins and through exercise.” Does jumping on Oprah’s couch count as exercise?

“Psychiatry is a pseudoscience,” Cruise said, adding: “You don’t know the history of psychiatry. I do… All it does is mask the problem, Matt, and if you understand the story, it masks the problem. That’s what he does. That’s all it does. It is not coming to the reason why. There is no chemical imbalance.”

Although Tom Cruise acted as a doctor at Eyes Wide Shut, people who really went to the doctor generally disagreed with his advice. Nada Stotland, who was once president of the American Psychiatric Association, told WebMD that psychiatry is not a pseudoscience at all. “We can see differences between the images of the brain of someone who is depressed and someone who is not depressed,” she said. “And if we give medications, the depressed person’s brain resembles a person who is not depressed.” Of course, that doesn’t mean that medication is just a way to treat depression. It simply means that it can help.”