- Influencer Paula Gonu said she and her partner ate her own knee cartilage.
- On the Club 113 podcast, she said she put it in a spaghetti bolognese she and her boyfriend shared.
Influencer Paula Gonu said she included some of her own knee cartilage in a spaghetti bolognese she made for herself and her partner.
Gonu, a 30-year-old Spanish content creator with 2 million followers on Instagram, told the hosts of the Club 113 podcast that she had part of her knee cartilage, called the meniscus, removed during surgery following an injury.
The doctor asked her if she wanted to keep it, she said.
"I told him 'Yes,'" Gonu said, according to a translation by The Independent.
She added that the surgeon then "put it in alcohol so it would stay that way for as long as I wanted."
Gonu said a week later she and her partner were joking around, and she had the idea of cooking her own knee.
"I told him I wanted to eat it because it was part of me and I had to put it back in my body," she said. "Then I made a Bolognese and put it in and we ate it."
According to Gonu, people eat the bones, cartilage and other parts of "worse animals," so what she did wasn't that weird, she said.
But in comments on YouTube and TikTok, people were divided. Some thought Gonu's story was funny, while others were grossed out.
"At what point did I decide that it was a good idea to watch this over dinner?" one person asked.
One comment noted how Gonu had "literally" taken the phrase: 'You are what you eat.'
During the same interview, Gonu also said she had masturbated on a plane, according to Madrid-based news site La Razón.
She said she did it because she couldn't sleep.
"Nobody saw me," she added.