50 celebrities who are proud of their vegan diets

Miley Cyrus has a well-documented love of animals and is so committed to being vegan that she got a symbol for veganism tattooed on her body. "Vegan for life!" she shared on Instagram when she got the inking in 2017.

Jenna Dewan told the Los Angeles Times in 2016 that she hasn't eaten meat since she was 11, when she watched something on TV about slaughterhouses. "I certainly encourage veganism, not just for our health, but for the environment and also for the ethical and moral reasons," she said. (Watch her taste test vegan fast food for Women's Health.)

The Formation singer famously does a "vegan challenge" every time she gears up for big events or performances. In 2018, she encouraged fans on Instagram to join her in her vegan diet as she prepared for Coachella and, last year, she and Jay-Z promoted the diet again with their free concert ticket contest.

The athlete went on a strict diet after giving birth to daughter Alexis Olympia. "I was vegan, I didn't eat sugar," she told reporters at a Wimbledon press event in July, according to the Daily Mail.

But, the athlete added that her strict diet didn't start to show results until she stopped breastfeeding. "I lost 10 pounds in a week when I stopped. I just kept dropping," she said.

The Oscar-winning actress told W in 2017 that she started eating vegan after noticing she had really low energy (and some cholesterol problems). After she tried eating vegan for two weeks, she claimed to have "more energy than I’ve ever had in my life". She continued: "Being vegan was not anything I ever wanted to be. I just really was listening to what my body was telling me."

Natalie Portman feels so passionately about her veganism that she produced and narrated a 2018 documentary called Eating Animals. "There's a reason that food, and food restrictions, are such a big part of every religion," she told California radio station KPCC about being vegan. "Because it is a way that you can state what you believe in and what you care about three times a day."

The Nikita actress says that, for her, the environmental aspect of veganism is just as important as the health impact. "When I'm eating, I'm not hurting the planet, I'm not hurting other people on the planet, I'm not hurting other animals," she told PETA about her vegan diet.

The singer-actress has gone between vegetarianism and veganism for years. "I keep my home completely vegan, which I think is one of the most important things," she told US Weekly in 2017. "If you keep your home healthy, then, when you’re reaching for snacks, you’re not reaching for bad things. So, I stock it with fruits and vegetables."

The tennis champion has been a vegan since being diagnosed with Sjögren's syndrome, an autoimmune disorder that causes fatigue and joint pain, reports ABC News.

But Williams admits she's not the healthiest vegan at times: "I'm not perfect, but I live a plant-based lifestyle," she said. "[Like] french fries are vegan, but just because it's vegan, doesn't make it the best food choice."

Ultimately, though, she's all about taking care of her health: "[I'd also like to] help people live healthy lives. It's so important in my life," she said. "For me it's plant-based lifestyle, for others, maybe it's getting moving more. For everyone it's different. [I'd like to help people] find your healthiest moment."

Ariana Grande told The Mirror in 2014 that her love of animals inspired her to go vegan. "I love animals more than I love most people," she said. "It is tricky dining out, but I just stick to what I know—veggies, fruit, and salad–then when I get home, I’ll have something else."

"I never eat meat and try to eat totally vegan, which is easiest when I cook for myself," Carrie Underwood told Cosmopolitan in 2017. "We hardly ever take out or eat out because I don't like to... I like knowing what's in my food, and it's hard to tell when someone else makes it for you."

Alicia Silverstone told Oprah that she went vegan three years after filming Clueless, and she hasn't looked back. "I used to have all those white marks on my nails and they were very brittle, and now they're so strong I cannot bend them," she said. "My eyes got really white, and I feel like I look less puffy."

In a blog post in 2017, titled Fight Fake Food, Not Fake News, Pamela Anderson made the case for eating vegan. "I say, veganism is about more than choosing not to eat animal products. Veganism is bigger than that. Veganism is about saving animals, saving ourselves, saving our societies, and saving our planet!"

Orange is the New Black actress Danielle Brooks went vegan in 2017. In an appearance on The Chew that September, she said that her Southern, comfort-food upbringing meant that she never learned "how to eat properly, how food is fuel. So this is my way of teaching myself how to eat properly, how to eat to live, I guess."

The actress has been vegan since her teen years, and got some flak for staying vegan while pregnant. "I still have to defend myself because people don’t understand it," she told Ladies' Home Journal in 2011, per People. She's also raising her son, Henry, as a vegan.

Ellen Degeneres has been vegan since 2008. "I've always called myself an animal lover. And yet I ate them," she said in a 2012 interview, according to Yahoo. But she said "something snapped," once she learned how chicken and other meat products are made.

That said, in her comedy special Relatable on Netflix, Ellen noted that she's a little more flexible these days. "In the last year or two for no real reason, I started eating a piece of fish once in a while. Or I'll eat eggs from chickens I know—if they are in someone's backyard or are happy."

In an essay for O Magazine, Portia de Rossi wrote that she stopped eating meat after she and wife Ellen Degeneres moved to a farm in California. "I always thought going vegan would be difficult, but I genuinely don't crave meat or cheese. And I feel happier, like I'm contributing to making the world a less violent place."

The actress credits vegan eating for helping her look her best. "Eating a vegan diet—it’s just so much healthier—and you avoid a lot of toxins that could age your skin and your body," she told Urbanette. "I really noticed a difference in my skin not too long after switching to fully vegan."