If you type “is Ariana Grande vegan” into Google, you deserve a straight answer, and most sites won’t give you one. So here it is: her diet has been plant-based since November 2013, she confirmed it as recently as her 2024 Hot Ones appearance, and PETA put her on its 2026 vegan celebrities list. And also: the story has a couple of asterisks that her fans deserve to know about.
Let’s do both halves properly.
QUICK ANSWER
Yes, Ariana Grande eats fully plant-based, and has since November 2013. She reconfirmed it herself in August 2024 (“I'm still plant-based”) and appears on PETA's January 2026 vegan celebrities list. The honest fine print: she now prefers the term “plant-based” over “vegan”, and her lifestyle record includes a famously non-vegan Starbucks drink and some leather on red carpets.
Last fact-checked: July 7, 2026
With over 119 million monthly Spotify listeners, Ariana Grande's plant-based message reaches nearly as far as her music. Photo: Adobe Stock (editorial use only).
The 2013 announcement
On a November day in 2013, Grande tweeted that she’d eaten organic since she was little, always kept meat minimal, and that “today marks my first day as a 100% Vegan!!!” She was 20. Thirteen years later, the diet part of that promise is still standing.
Her reasons were always animals first, as she told the Mirror in the most Ariana way possible: “I love animals more than I love most people, not kidding.” The health argument came attached: a “full plant-based, whole food diet that can expand your life length and make you an all-around happier person.”
And in case you doubted the family pressure was real, her 2024 Hot Ones episode (vegan wings, naturally) delivered the best nonna quote of the year: “My nonna always offers me meatballs, and I’m like ‘No, thank you, I’m still plant-based.’ I don’t think they forget; I think they don’t want to remember.”
The vegan timeline, tap to expand
November 2013: “my first day as a 100% Vegan”
The Twitter announcement. She's been plant-based ever since, through every album and tour.
2018: Piggy Smallz arrives
She adopts a teacup pig with the greatest pet name in pop history. He co-stars in the “breathin” music video.
March 2019: the Cloud Macchiato problem
Her signature Starbucks drink turns out to contain milk, cream and egg-white powder in the foam, and can't be ordered vegan. The internet does not let it go. Fair, honestly.
November 2020: Orange Twins Rescue
She co-founds an animal rescue in Los Angeles, putting infrastructure behind the “I love animals” line.
2021/22: r.e.m. beauty goes cruelty-free
Her makeup brand launches vegan and earns PETA's cruelty-free certification.
August 2024: “I'm still plant-based”
Hot Ones, vegan wings, the nonna quote. The most recent first-person confirmation we have.
January 2026: PETA's list
PETA features her on its “Vegan Celebrities to Inspire You in 2026” roundup, citing her diet and her cruelty-free beauty brand.
About those asterisks
We write these checks to be right, not to be nice, so here’s the fine print. The 2019 Cloud Macchiato she promoted contained dairy and egg and had no vegan version, which was a genuinely bad look for someone marketed as pop’s most famous vegan. She’s also been photographed in leather and other animal-derived materials at events over the years. And somewhere along the way, her own language shifted from “100% Vegan” to “plant-based”.
What does that add up to? A person whose plate has been consistently plant-based for 13 years, whose money keeps flowing into animal rescue and cruelty-free products, and whose lifestyle is not audited to activist standards. If your bar is “does she eat animals?”, the answer has been no since 2013. If your bar is “is every jacket vegan?”, she’d fail some spot checks. Both things are true.
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Her pet pig appeared in a music video. Fact or fiction?
Fact. Piggy Smallz stars in “breathin” (2018).
Her signature Starbucks drink was vegan. Fact or fiction?
Fiction. The 2019 Cloud Macchiato contained milk, cream and egg-white powder, and couldn't be made vegan. The backlash was loud and justified.
She co-founded an animal rescue. Fact or fiction?
Fact. Orange Twins Rescue, Los Angeles, since November 2020.
Quiz: how well do you know plant-based Ariana?
Five questions, no cheating
1. What year did she announce going vegan?
2. What's her famous pet called?
3. Why did vegans rage about her 2019 Starbucks drink?
4. What does her nonna keep offering her?
5. Which organization certified r.e.m. beauty cruelty-free?
Is Ariana Grande still vegan in 2026?
Her diet, yes: plant-based since 2013, self-confirmed in August 2024, PETA-listed in January 2026. The label, sort of: she says “plant-based” now, and her lifestyle has never been activist-grade. We’ll take a pop star who’s kept animals off her plate for 13 years and built a rescue on the side, asterisks and all.
Her pet pig appeared in a music video. Fact or fiction? Fact. Piggy Smallz stars in “breathin” (2018). Her signature Starbucks drink was vegan. Fact or fiction? Fiction.
Is Ariana Grande still vegan in 2026?+
Her diet, yes: plant-based since 2013, self-confirmed in August 2024, PETA-listed in January 2026. The label, sort of: she says “plant-based” now, and her lifestyle has never been activist-grade.
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