Natalie Portman has had a big year. A couple of hit films. A Golden Globe and then an Oscar. Oh, and then of course there’s the gorgeous fiance and soon to arrive baby. That’s a lot to handle and still stay a strict vegan, which is why Portman has decided to transition into vegetarianism for the duration of her pregnancy.
“I actually went back to being vegetarian when I became pregnant, just because I felt like I wanted that stuff,” Portman told the Q100 Bert Show in Atlanta. “I was listening to my body to have eggs and dairy and that sort of thing.”
“I know there are people who do stay vegan, but I think you have to just be careful, you have to watch your iron levels and your b12 levels and supplement … things you might be low in your diet,” Portman continued. ”Eggs I wanted in the beginning but then they grossed me out after a while. If you’re not eating eggs, then you can’t have cookies or cake from regular bakeries, which can become a problem when that’s all you want to eat.”
Portman became a vegan two years ago after reading Jonathan Safran Foer’s book “Eating Animals.” Since her diet is morally driven, not a stringent method of keeping her figure, most speculators have guessed that Portman will return to her vegan ways once she is eating for one again.
Portman spoke of the influence that Foer’s book had on her in an essay for the Huffington post, commenting that, ”Perhaps others disagree with me that animals have personalities, but the highly documented torture of animals is unacceptable. And the human cost Foer describes in his book, of which I was previously unaware, is universally compelling.”
