diff --git a/src/renderers/dom/client/__tests__/validateDOMNesting-test.js b/src/renderers/dom/client/__tests__/validateDOMNesting-test.js
index e0bdfe959f2bc..b8b901e6aae2e 100644
--- a/src/renderers/dom/client/__tests__/validateDOMNesting-test.js
+++ b/src/renderers/dom/client/__tests__/validateDOMNesting-test.js
@@ -83,5 +83,8 @@ describe('ReactContextValidator', function() {
     expect(isTagStackValid(['table', 'tr'])).toBe(false);
     expect(isTagStackValid(['div', 'ul', 'li', 'div', 'li'])).toBe(false);
     expect(isTagStackValid(['div', 'html'])).toBe(false);
+
+    expect(isTagStackValid(['body', 'body'])).toBe(false);
+    expect(isTagStackValid(['svg', 'foreignObject', 'body', 'p'])).toBe(false);
   });
 });
diff --git a/src/renderers/dom/client/validateDOMNesting.js b/src/renderers/dom/client/validateDOMNesting.js
index 431d80fd2d5db..a8c808f4d60eb 100644
--- a/src/renderers/dom/client/validateDOMNesting.js
+++ b/src/renderers/dom/client/validateDOMNesting.js
@@ -220,6 +220,8 @@ if (__DEV__) {
       case 'th':
       case 'thead':
       case 'tr':
+
+      case 'body':
         // These tags are only valid with a few parents that have special child
         // parsing rules -- if we're down here, then none of those matched and
         // so we allow it only if we don't know what the parent is, as all other