There are plenty of reasons why people travel the vegetarian path in life. Some even take the vegan route. Whether it’s for health reasons or they just love animals too much to ever have them as part of their everyday diet, it’s a choice that many famous faces have also made. So it’s time to look at the hottest vegetarian celebrities, from lifetime animal rights activists to those who followed doctor’s orders.
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There are a few things everyone who’s anyone knows about Pamela Anderson, and one of those is that she is a diehard animal rights activist who has worked alongside PETA for the majority of her career.
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This Spider-Man star decided to stop eating meat when he was just a teen, but in the 2000s went full vegan.
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Taraji P. Henson may’ve starred in Hidden Figures, but she hasn’t kept her eating habits under wraps. She has been open about becoming a vegan due to health concerns.
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Brad Pitt introduced a plant-based diet into his life, not because he wanted to be named the Sexiest Man Alive (again), but for environmental reasons.
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It was the year Johnny Depp tried to be Willy Wonka, The Office got started, and actress Jessica Chastain went from vegetarian to full-blown vegan.
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Black Eyed Peas' Will.i.am once told The Sunday Times that he was "violently vegan." Not sure what that means, but it can only mean he's wildly serious about it.
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Kate Mara told Shape that Kimberly Snyder's The Beauty Detox Solution helped her realize the health benefits of veganism.
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Elliot Page has been vegan for much of his career and was even named the "World's Sexiest Vegan" in 2014 by PETA.
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After being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, tennis great Venus Williams decided that a raw vegan diet was an avenue she needed to explore.
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This Is Us star Milo Ventimiglia grew up in a meat-free home and continued to live that way after he branched out on his own.
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Those wondering why and how country superstar Shania Twain appears to have not aged since the '90s, she swears it's because of her no-meat ways. She also avoids junk food. So there's that as well.
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Sons of Anarchy's Theo Rossi didn't hop on any current trends because he's been vegan since the late '90s.
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Alicia Silverstone eating meat? As if!
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Ricky Martin decided to ditch meat back in 2013, and it looks like veggies are doing him just fine.
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Zendaya has actually been vegetarian longer than she's been an actor. She chose that lifestyle at 11 and got her first big break four years later on Disney's Shake It Up.
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Joaquin Phoenix is one of the most passionate people in Hollywood, often using his platform to speak up about the things that matter most to him. That includes animal rights.
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Vocal dynamo Ariana Grande once told Mirror, "I love animals more than I love most people." Same, girl, same.
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For some reason, it'd be more surprising if Lenny Kravitz wasn't a vegan, right?
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Natalie Portman stopped eating meat as a kid but, after reading Eating Animals, decided that veganism was the move she had to make.
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Of course, the guy who has a whole avocado farm doesn't eat meat.
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Lizzo went several years without meat before deciding that veganism was going to make her feel good as hell.
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Jared Leto's diet has been pretty much meat- and animal-product-free for over two decades.
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The Titanic star didn't just change her diet; she decided to take on the meat industry and its impact on the planet with the documentary, Eating Our Way To Extinction.