13 celebrities who you could not know are vegan, from Kevin Hart to Travis Barker

Kevin Hart is the most recent movie star to get into the vegan meals trade. Final month, the comedy actor introduced plans to open two plant-based fast-food eating places in Los Angeles and Hollywood.

Known as Hart Home, the menu will reportedly be 100 per cent plant-based and have vegan burgers, “rooster” sandwiches and nuggets, fries, tots, salads, and milkshakes. The primary Hart Home is to open later in the summertime.

In 2019, Hart revealed that he adopted a “principally plant-based food plan” and invested in Past Meat. The next yr, he appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast, the place he continued discussing his life-style alternative.

“Simply since you make the choice to go and check out plant-based, doesn’t imply it’s a must to [be engulfed] in that world,” he stated. “Be taught it, perceive it, and see if there are advantages that be just right for you.”

Whereas Hart actually isn’t the primary movie star to open up about being on a plant-based food plan or a vegan, right here’s a take a look at different well-known individuals who have adopted an analogous life-style.

Woody Harrelson

The actor has been following a vegan food plan for greater than 30 years. He’s spoken out about how an encounter with a stranger obtained him began on going plant-based.

“I used to eat burgers and steak however I’d simply really feel knocked out afterward; I needed to give them up. Dairy was first, although. I used to be on a bus after I was about 24 and this lady noticed me blow my nostril — and I had zits throughout my face,” he stated.

“She informed me I used to be clearly lactose illiberal and that if I gave up dairy my signs would disappear in a matter of days. She was proper.”

Colin Kaepernick

The previous NFL quarterback, identified for his activism in talking out in opposition to police brutality, is a vegan. He first started following the food plan in late 2015, together with his accomplice Nessa Diab confirming that they each began collectively. Though Kaepernick is comparatively quiet about his vegan life-style, in 2018, he shared a health club selfie on Twitter, captioning it #NotBadForAVegan.

In early 2021, Ben and Jerry’s even devoted a brand new flavour of non-diary ice cream to Kaepernick referred to as Change the Whirled.

Lewis Hamilton

The seven-times System One champion grew to become a vegan in 2017 and says he needs he had began sooner. He’s usually taken to social media, the place he has 28.9 million followers on Instagram, to induce them to go vegan, ditch leather-based and to boycott animal exploitation for leisure functions.

“Go vegan, it’s the solely approach to actually save our planet at the moment,” he stated in a submit in 2019. “It may be performed so shortly, all it’s a must to do is put your thoughts to it.”

Lizzo

The Fact Hurts singer has been a vegetarian for greater than a decade however grew to become a vegan in 2020. Since then, Lizzo, 34, been utilizing her social media platforms akin to TikTok to share plant-based recipes in addition to messages of physique positivity.

“Shout out to all my fats vegans — we glance nearly as good as we really feel … and to the haters, good luck chasing that slim magnificence customary,” she as soon as stated in response to a different TikToker who stated there have been too many plus-sized vegans.

Peter Dinklage

Dinklage, 53, was a vegetarian for 15 years earlier than changing into a vegan in 2014. The actor has campaigned for American animal safety organisation Farm Sanctuary, narrated a PETA video advocating for vegan diets and been vocal with Sport of Thrones followers about adopting dire-wolf trying Huskies from shelters, fairly than shopping for from breeders.

Tobey Maguire

The Spider-Man star has been a vegetarian since 1992 earlier than changing into a vegan in 2009. “I’ve by no means had any want to eat meat. In truth, after I was a child I’d have a very troublesome time consuming meat in any respect,” he informed Parade Journal in 2008.

It was reported that in the course of the filming of The Nice Gatsby he insisted on returning a Mercedes lent to him throughout manufacturing as a result of it had leather-based seats.

Benedict Cumberbatch

The British actor is a vegan however has been beneath the radar about his alternative of food plan. Throughout a visit to Singapore, the Physician Unusual star opened up about making an attempt a number of native plant-based dishes.

Chatting with Channel Information Asia, he stated that he visited a meals corridor market. When requested whether or not he tasted a few of the native dishes, Cumberbatch stated, “Yeah, I had native meals, as a lot as a vegan can.”

Rob Zombie

The musician and director, who is understood for steering horror movies akin to Home of 1000 Corpses (2003) and The Satan’s Rejects (2005), is an moral vegan.

He and his spouse rescue livestock and home them at their Connecticut property. Whereas he grew to become a vegetarian in 1982, it was in 2012, he made the transition to changing into a vegan after discovering himself repulsed by eggs one morning.

“It was difficult. Vegetarian is simpler, as a result of you may nonetheless have scrambled eggs or pizza. As soon as I went vegan, it was, like … now there’s nothing to eat,” Zombie stated in an interview with GQ in 2021. “Daily it will get simpler, and each day the meals will get higher. Veggie burgers was once like tasteless hockey pucks, and now they’re so scrumptious.”

Jessica Chastain

Chastain, who received an Academy Award for Greatest Actress for The Eyes of Tammy Faye in 2021, is vegan. Like others, she was first a vegetarian for 15 years earlier than deciding to change to a vegan food plan.

“I discovered myself going to veganism as a result of a pal of mine had a two-week vegan meals supply programme she wasn’t going to make use of so I used it, and instantly I simply had extra power than I’ve ever had in my life,” she informed W Journal in July 2017.

“I stated, ‘OK, I’m going to simply hearken to my physique now.’ Being vegan was not something I ever wished to be. I simply actually was listening to what my physique was telling me.”

Will. I. Am

One of many founding members of the Black Eyed Peas, Will. I. Am as soon as described himself as “violently vegan” in a 2019 interview with British newspaper The Sunday Instances.

The rapper has been a vegan since late 2017 after a physician’s go to prompted him to vary his life-style habits. He opened about how the well being advantages of adjusting diets throughout The Thrive World Podcast with The Huffington Publish founder Arianna Huffington.

“I switched my routine, went plant-based and it modified my life. I misplaced 20lbs. My stress ranges got here down naturally. I’ve extra power. My sleep routine is superior,” he stated.

“It modified my life, and I’d encourage all people to have a plant-based routine. You don’t want the meat.”

Travis Barker

The drummer of pop-rock band Blink-182 sticks to a gluten-free, vegan food plan which he says helps maintain him energised throughout exhibits.

“Truthfully, ever since I discovered this fashion of consuming I’ve infinite quantities of power,” Barker informed Males’s Journal. “I can go all day, and after all of it I by no means discover myself getting drained. It doesn’t matter what sort of exhibits I’ve performed, or exercises I do on prime of it, I nonetheless need to drive myself to sleep at evening.”

In the identical article, he additionally defined how he stored to his plant-based food plan whereas on tour.

“For snacks I’ll eat a number of strawberries, blueberries, and acai berries. I discover myself consuming plates of broccoli or cauliflower at occasions. I additionally carry a Juicero with us on tour, and I’ll use that to make some fairly superior juices.”

Brian Could

The guitarist of Queen went vegan at first of 2020, simply earlier than the coronavirus pandemic. Nonetheless, he’s lengthy been identified for being an animal-rights activist. He based the organisation Save Me (named after the Queen tune) that campaigns for the safety of all animals in opposition to pointless and merciless remedy, such because the looking of foxes and the culling of badgers within the UK.

Opening as much as NME about his new plant-based food plan in 2020, he stated: “To go vegan was only a determination, and I haven’t been preachy about it, however now we’ve seen extra of the results of how consuming animals has introduced us to our knees as a species. I believe it’s time to re-examine our world in a manner that doesn’t abuse different species.”

Up to date: July 11, 2022, 4:13 AM