{"id":40527,"date":"2026-07-08T02:09:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/this-is-vegan.com\/?p=40527"},"modified":"2026-07-08T04:33:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:33:02","slug":"is-natalie-portman-vegan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/this-is-vegan.com\/en\/is-natalie-portman-vegan\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Natalie Portman Vegan? Yes, and She Calls It Basic Empathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people go vegan because of a documentary. Natalie Portman went vegan because of a book, which is the most Natalie Portman thing imaginable.<\/p>\n<p>She had already been vegetarian for two decades, since age 9. Then in 2011 she read Jonathan Safran Foer&rsquo;s Eating Animals, and the remaining dairy and eggs didn&rsquo;t survive the final chapter. She didn&rsquo;t just adopt the book&rsquo;s argument, she eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/plantbasednews.org\/news\/celebrities\/is-natalie-portman-vegan\/\">produced and narrated the documentary adaptation<\/a> in 2018. When Portman commits to source material, she commits.<\/p>\n<style>.tiv-verdict{border-left:6px solid #29a579;background:#f8decd;padding:18px 22px;margin:28px 0;border-radius:0 14px 14px 0;color:#0a4a4a}.tiv-verdict .tiv-badge{display:inline-block;background:#106050;color:#fff;padding:4px 14px;border-radius:999px;font-size:14px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.4px;margin-bottom:8px}.tiv-verdict p{margin:8px 0 0}.tiv-check{font-size:13px;color:#0a6b6c;margin-top:10px}details.tiv-tl{border:1px solid #e5ded4;border-radius:10px;margin:10px 0;background:#fff}details.tiv-tl summary{cursor:pointer;padding:13px 16px;font-weight:600;color:#0a4a4a}details.tiv-tl[open] summary{border-bottom:1px solid #f0ebe2}details.tiv-tl .tiv-tlb{padding:12px 16px;color:#0a4a4a}.tivq{border:2px solid #29a579;border-radius:14px;padding:22px;margin:30px 0;background:#fff}.tivq .tivq-q{margin:16px 0;padding:14px;background:#f6f3ec;border-radius:10px}.tivq .tivq-q p{font-weight:600;margin:0 0 10px}.tivq button{display:block;width:100%;text-align:left;margin:6px 0;padding:11px 14px;border:1px solid #d9d2c5;border-radius:8px;background:#fff;cursor:pointer;font-size:16px;color:#0a4a4a}.tivq button.tiv-ok{background:#29a579;color:#fff;border-color:#29a579}.tivq button.tiv-no{background:#fbe9e4;border-color:#e59875}.tivq .tivq-res{display:none;font-weight:700;margin-top:14px;font-size:18px;color:#106050}<\/style>\n<div class=\"tiv-verdict\"><span class=\"tiv-badge\">QUICK ANSWER<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yes, Natalie Portman is vegan,<\/strong> and has been since 2011. In 2025 she called veganism &#8220;basic empathy&#8221; on a conference stage and invested in the vegan leather company UNCAGED Innovations. One honest footnote: during her 2011 pregnancy she temporarily ate vegetarian again, then returned to vegan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tiv-check\">Last fact-checked: July 7, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Three meals, three reminders<\/h2>\n<p>Portman has one of the most quotable explanations for why food is where her values live, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peta.org\/features\/natalie-portman-vegan-quotes\/\">via PETA<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;Eating for me is how you proclaim your beliefs three times a day. Three times a day, I remind myself that I value life and do not want to cause pain to or kill other living beings.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And in April 2025, closing the ChangeNOW conference in Paris, she compressed it further, <a href=\"https:\/\/plantbasednews.org\/animals\/natalie-portman-vegan-basic-empathy\/\">calling veganism &ldquo;basic empathy&rdquo;<\/a>: something she understood as a child, seeing animals as beings like herself. Twenty-seven years of Hollywood cynicism apparently couldn&rsquo;t dent a nine-year-old&rsquo;s logic.<\/p>\n<h2>The vegan timeline, tap to expand<\/h2>\n<details class=\"tiv-tl\">\n<summary>Around 1990: vegetarian at age 9<\/summary>\n<div class=\"tiv-tlb\">Meat is out before she's in middle school, and stays out.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"tiv-tl\">\n<summary>2007: the vegan shoe line<\/summary>\n<div class=\"tiv-tlb\">She launches a leather-free designer shoe collection with Te Casan, years before vegan fashion was a category anyone invested in.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"tiv-tl\">\n<summary>2011: Eating Animals ends the vegetarian era<\/summary>\n<div class=\"tiv-tlb\">Foer's book converts her to vegan at 30. The same year, during her pregnancy, she temporarily returns to vegetarian (eggs and dairy cravings, openly discussed), then goes back to vegan.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"tiv-tl\">\n<summary>2018: produces the Eating Animals documentary<\/summary>\n<div class=\"tiv-tlb\">She turns the book that converted her into a film, and narrates it herself.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"tiv-tl\">\n<summary>2019: the WE Day speech<\/summary>\n<div class=\"tiv-tlb\">She connects the dairy and egg industries to the exploitation of female bodies, one of the more pointed feminist framings of veganism from any A-lister.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"tiv-tl\">\n<summary>2025: money into vegan leather<\/summary>\n<div class=\"tiv-tlb\">She joins UNCAGED Innovations, a grain-based leather startup, as investor and strategic partner: &#8220;As a vegan, I've spent years advocating for animals, and teaming up with Uncaged allows me to amplify that mission.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<h2>The pregnancy footnote, handled honestly<\/h2>\n<p>In 2011, while pregnant, Portman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2011\/04\/11\/natalie_portman_vegan_vegetarian\/\">said she&rsquo;d gone back to vegetarian<\/a>, craving eggs and dairy. Some corners of the internet still cite this as &ldquo;Natalie Portman quit veganism&rdquo;. She didn&rsquo;t. She was transparent about a temporary shift during pregnancy and returned to fully vegan afterwards, where she&rsquo;s stayed for well over a decade. If anything, the episode makes her one of the more credible celebrity vegans: no image management, just honesty.<\/p>\n<p>By late 2025, PETA was referring to her as a longtime vegan of 15 years. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.veganfoodandliving.com\/news\/natalie-portman-invests-in-vegan-leather-company-uncaged-innovations\/\">UNCAGED investment<\/a> suggests the next 15 are already planned.<\/p>\n<h2>Fact or fiction?<\/h2>\n<details class=\"tiv-tl\">\n<summary>A documentary made her go vegan. Fact or fiction?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"tiv-tlb\"><strong>Fiction.<\/strong> It was a book, Eating Animals. She later made the documentary herself.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"tiv-tl\">\n<summary>She launched vegan shoes before veganism was trendy. Fact or fiction?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"tiv-tlb\"><strong>Fact.<\/strong> 2007, with Te Casan. Beyond Meat wouldn't even be founded for another two years.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"tiv-tl\">\n<summary>She has been vegetarian or vegan for over 35 years. Fact or fiction?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"tiv-tlb\"><strong>Fact.<\/strong> Vegetarian since about 1990, vegan since 2011. The streak is older than some of her co-stars.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<h2>Quiz: how well do you know vegan Natalie?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tivq\">\n<h3>Five questions, no cheating<\/h3>\n<div class=\"tivq-q\">\n<p>1. How old was she when she stopped eating meat?<\/p>\n<p><button data-ok>9<\/button><button>15<\/button><button>22<\/button><\/div>\n<div class=\"tivq-q\">\n<p>2. Which book turned her vegan in 2011?<\/p>\n<p><button>The China Study<\/button><button data-ok>Eating Animals<\/button><button>How Not to Die<\/button><\/div>\n<div class=\"tivq-q\">\n<p>3. What did she call veganism in 2025?<\/p>\n<p><button>&#8220;The only logical diet&#8221;<\/button><button data-ok>&#8220;Basic empathy&#8221;<\/button><button>&#8220;A daily protest&#8221;<\/button><\/div>\n<div class=\"tivq-q\">\n<p>4. What did she launch in 2007?<\/p>\n<p><button data-ok>A vegan designer shoe line<\/button><button>A vegan cookbook<\/button><button>A plant-milk brand<\/button><\/div>\n<div class=\"tivq-q\">\n<p>5. What is UNCAGED Innovations, her 2025 investment?<\/p>\n<p><button>A vegan restaurant group<\/button><button>An oat milk startup<\/button><button data-ok>A grain-based vegan leather company<\/button><\/div>\n<div class=\"tivq-res\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>document.addEventListener(\"click\",function(e){var b=e.target.closest(\".tivq button\");if(!b||b.disabled)return;var q=b.closest(\".tivq-q\"),z=b.closest(\".tivq\"),ok=b.hasAttribute(\"data-ok\");q.querySelectorAll(\"button\").forEach(function(x){x.disabled=!0;if(x.hasAttribute(\"data-ok\"))x.classList.add(\"tiv-ok\")});if(!ok)b.classList.add(\"tiv-no\");z.dataset.d=(+z.dataset.d||0)+1;z.dataset.s=(+z.dataset.s||0)+(ok?1:0);if(+z.dataset.d===z.querySelectorAll(\".tivq-q\").length){var r=z.querySelector(\".tivq-res\");r.style.display=\"block\";r.textContent=\"Your score: \"+z.dataset.s+\" of \"+z.dataset.d+\". \"+(+z.dataset.s>=4?\"Superfan status confirmed.\":+z.dataset.s>=2?\"Solid. 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This is a settled identity, not a phase.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More vegan celebrity checks:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/this-is-vegan.com\/en\/is-joaquin-phoenix-vegan\/\">Is Joaquin Phoenix vegan?<\/a> Vegan since before she was born, almost<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/this-is-vegan.com\/en\/is-alicia-silverstone-vegan\/\">Is Alicia Silverstone vegan?<\/a> Hollywood&rsquo;s other long-hauler<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/this-is-vegan.com\/en\/is-rooney-mara-vegan\/\">Is Rooney Mara vegan?<\/a> Vegan fashion, undercover farms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Natalie_Portman_2023.jpg\">European Union \/ Corey Sipkin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY 4.0<\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">One book turned Natalie Portman from 20-year vegetarian into one of Hollywood&#8217;s clearest vegan voices. 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