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Pregnant Natalie Portman, A Vegan No More


Oscar winner Natalie Portman is no longer a vegan! At least for the time being.

Oh, don’t get too excited. She’s not on some carnivorous binge. The 29-year old mother-to-be is merely reverting to vegetarianism during her pregnancy. She and fiancé Benjamin Millepied are expecting their first child this summer.

“I actually went back to being vegetarian when I became pregnant, just because I felt like I wanted that stuff,” she told radio listeners during an interview with Q100 Bert Show in Atlanta. “I was listening to my body to have eggs and dairy and that sort of stuff.”

Portman has been a vegan since 2009, when she read Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Eating Animals.”

“I know there are people who do stay vegan, but I think you have to just be careful, watch your iron levels and your B12 levels and supplement those if there are things you might be low in your diet,” she said.

So why did she decide to revert to her non-vegan ways? Cravings.

“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,” she laughed.

While she may be giving in to temptation at the bakery, she’s resisting any urge to find out whether or not her baby is a boy or a girl.

“People can say a lot of things and they have a 50 percent chance of being right. I’m Jewish and I think in Judaism, there’s a lot of superstition around not doing too much before the baby comes,” she explained.

Either way, we wish her a happy and healthy pregnancy, with all the cookies and cake her heart desires.

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