Clueless actress Alicia Silverstone (who has done a PETA commercial before) is speaking out on the wonders of healthy eating and living. She started by deeming herself the "sheriff" of her neighborhood in LA (by reminding neighbors to turn off lights and sprinklers), and now she is taking her cause to a bigger platform: publishing a new book, The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight and Saving the Planet. The book is autobiographical, with an emphasis on nutrition and... Read Full Story
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) aren't highly regarded in the fashion industry. After a bevy of crazy stunts, where they've stormed catwalks and made immature nuisances of themselves, it has very much become a case of 'us and them'. So when their latest campaign hit the Internet most people in the industry sighed a collective breath of relief. There were no crazy stunts to be seen, not even a crazy protester (well past her prime) flashing her privates. No, all we were hit... Read Full Story
Watch for her in the following video - she's the one who's afraid of storms! I know Alicia Silverstone's disturbing appearance wasn't the point of the preceding video, but it is what's getting picked up on (Had the video's makers known they might've asked Alicia to participate with a bag over her head, as a sort of "Unknown Celebrity")! That's the trouble with attempts to reach out and connect with other people - you can't tell what they'll make of it! It's as if some built in tendency... Read Full Story
Drop-dead gorgeous Kareena Kapoor is touted to win PETA’s ‘Sexiest Vegetarian Alive’ title this time round. The film industry is abuzz with a news piece that suggests that Saif’s ladylove is the hottest contender for the title.
The size zero actress, who has won the PETA’s ‘Cutest Vegetarian Alive’ title in the past has Bollywood and Hollywood’s biggest hotties competing with her for the same. Some of those in contention for the title besides Bebo include Vidya Balan, Shahid Kapur, R... Read Full Story
Click the image to download or see in full size Silverstone was born in San Francisco, California, the daughter of Deirdre "Didi" (née Radford), a Scotland-born former flight attendant who worked for Pan Am, and Monty Silverstone, an England-born real-estate investor. Silverstone was raised in a "traditional Jewish household"; her father, a native of East London, is Jewish, and her mother converted to Conservative Judaism before marriage. Silverstone is the youngest of three children and... Read Full Story
Alicia Silverstone has stripped off to show how being a vegan helped her lose weight. The Clueless star bares all in a 30-second US TV advert for animal welfare campaign group PETA. The actress claims rejecting meat has made her both slimmer and healthier. The clip begins with Silverstone sensually pulling herself out of a swimming pool, carefully protecting her modesty with her arms. It follows with soft shots of the blonde star perched at the edge of the pool with her back to the camera... Read Full Story
Vote for 2008's Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrity. Sponsored by PETA --People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, this organization boasts more than 1.8 million members/supporters, and considers itself the largest animal rights group in the world. Working through public education, cruelty investigations, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, protest campaigns, and celebrity involvement, PETA seeks to raise awareness of the unethical treatment of animals. Most attention is... Read Full Story
Sophie Monk lies near-nude on a bed of crimson chilli peppers for a PETA ad. No one can deny their sizzle quotient and we know nature has been generous to them. But these celebs show us their heart is in the right place as well, as they make use of their ‘gifts’ to pay back their debt to nature. We take you through a gallery of the women who dared to bare for mother nature. Nothing to feel guilty for, coz this one’s for the animals! Here, actress Alicia Silverstone appears naked in a print... Read Full Story
Alica Silverstone with her husband Christopher. She married longtime boyfriend, rock musician Christopher Jarecki (lead singer of group S.T.U.N.), in a beachfront ceremony at Lake Tahoe, on June 11, 2005. The couple had dated for eight years prior to being married, after meeting outside a movie theater in 1997.[ They got engaged about a year before their marriage and Silverstone’s engagement ring belonged to Jarecki’s grandmother. They live in an eco-friendly Los Angeles house... Read Full Story
Women’s Wear Daily has a fantastic in-depth interview with Alicia Silverstone that covers everything from fashion to food to not believing one person can make a difference. Here are some of my favorite highlights: “‘We all sit around talking about things we want to change, but unless you change, it ain’t going to happen,” says Alicia Silverstone. “I used to say, ‘What can I do? I’m just one person.’ It’s a lovely excuse but it’s a bunch of BS. Once I made the change I saw how powerful one... Read Full Story
