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Angelina Jolie: ‘Being Vegan Nearly Killed me’

Posted by Adam

Saturday August 28, 2010

Angelina JolieANGELINA Jolie blames being vegan for “nearly killing” her.

The Salt star says her guilty pleasure is to eat red meat and that when she restricted her diet to not include any animal products, it had negative effects on her health.

“I joke that a big juicy steak is my beauty secret,” she said.

“But seriously, I love red meat. I was a vegan for a long time, and it nearly killed me. I found I was not getting enough nutrition.”

The 35-year-old brunette beauty also admits she enjoys seeing her hands “grow older” as it is a sign of how much she has grown up and matured as a mother to six children — Maddox, nine, Pax, six, Zahara, five, Shiloh, four, and two-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne — whom she raises with partner Brad Pitt.

“Happiness is when I look down at my hands and they are washing a baby,” she said.

“I can sort of see my hands grow older and I love it.”

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  • Sissy

    Angelina’s drug addiction and whore psycho attitude almost killed her. What about her eating disorder, cutting and false suicide attempts? That also ALMOST killed her. She always almost kill herself to manipulate Brad into staying. Her anorexia is directly related to her mental disease, she’s not a model who try to obtain a size zero just to be able to get into FORD Agency, for Pete’s sake. That is “Mental illness karma” at best!

    • ROFL

      Sissy, you’re more believable as a lying, cyber psycho than anything you say about Angelina.

      • lanie

        She never said that her prior wild lifestyle didn’t almost kill her too. That is just a given. You sound really bitter, Sissy. I’m not even a Jolie fan, but your post is just nutty.

      • Tom

        Jolie is blaming the vegetable for nearly dying, lol. What an effing scapegoat. Her almost skeleton look is not the result of Vegan. She still looks like her old drug addict face who always seems high. And she has mental illness to add that up. Sissy’s comments is more convincing in Jolie’s condition. I highly doubt that vegan almost killed her.

    • Sissy

      ROFL, you are most believable for your solid delusion of your mentally instable diagnosed psycho idol. It always say a lot about you what kind of person your idol is and what kind of person you are.

      • ROFL

        That’s what’s wrong with you, SISSY, THE CYBER PSYCHO. You may be more stupid and clueless than your idol Jennifer.

      • Sissy

        If there is Psycho fan here, its YOU, ROFL! Your idol, Angelina, is an insane PSYCHO and of course, you as her delusional psycho fan. :)

    • Tasha

      Sissy, have you ever met Angelina? Have you ever talked to her and observed her mental illness for yourself. If not then dont judge. Sounds like the junk thats in gossip magazines, with no proof of anything.

      Vegan is a very unhealthy lifestyle is one does not go about it right. And with all the advertising about how everyone should “go vegan”. its no wonder people are ‘going vegan’ in an uneducated manner and getting sick.

  • Kyle

    VEGAN, my ass! Another nonsense tall tale cover up for her melting AIDS-like appearance.

  • ROFL

    And what did dieting on baby food did to Jennifer? She’s becoming to look like a man.

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    • cam

      that was a rumor in a tabloid that was denied by Jen herself. just saying.

  • nora

    Not the heroine? Seriously, Jolie, stop your lying.

    • lanie

      Heroin. Not Heroine. Get a grip.

  • shannon

    You guys are all nuts! Where did you read all that garbage the tabloids? Really, you all need to control your jealousy and grow up!

    • Al

      Amen.. jealous women… I know what real crackheads look like and Angelina is not one.

      • Mel

        I agree. I know a few drug addicts…it’s quite obvious she’s NOT a junkie or crackhead. They look much older and sicker than her, even the most attractive of the bunch will lose their looks to it. It’s just her age, which I think she looks great for BTW. I almost never see women as pretty as her in everyday life, so I don’t understand the negative comments about her appearance. She’s not 21 anymore. Some people just have that lanky body type and pale, thin skin. It runs in my family and people say such things about us as well.

      • nora

        She has MASSIVE plastic surgery and botoxing.Normal 35-year-olds don’t need that. She looks way older than her age.
        She admitted she did drugs(heroine),but when did go into rehab?? And I don’t mean the mental institution where she checked herself in when BBT didn’t want to leave his fiance.
        Heroine isn’t a drug you can quit from on 1 day.

      • lanie

        Nora, you’re seriously retarded. You can’t even spell the name of the drug, HEROIN, but you claim to know that you can’t quit it in one. People do get off of drugs without the help of rehab. If the will power is strong enough – you don’t need rehab. But how do you know she never went to rehab? celebrities can hide that stuff.

        And claiming Angelina got tons of plastic surgery..where? her face looks the same as it did when she was a child,besides a bit older. She has the same lips, eyes, nose and boobs.

        She looks great. She does NOT look older than her age.
        You sound like a bitter hag.

    • cam

      angie has admitted to being on nearly every drug, including heroin. go look it up.

    • Tasha

      So true Shannon!

  • CL.GARRY

    Who knows what is under this make-up?

  • cam

    like hell she was ever a vegan. and though she claims it “nearly killed” her, her drug habits and whoring didn’t? and what about her current state of body? stick-insect? i’ve changed my mind. angie voight is probably a vegan. in fact, she’s probably a breatharian. the woman doesn’t look like she’s EVER eaten a steak.

  • Amber

    She is not a vegan nor a meat eater. She’s illegal drug pill eater. She has to claim that she’s into vegan eating because of her questionable anorexia AIDS looking body. People won’t be fooled by your VEGAN claim, Angelina. Blame it to your mental illness and eating disorder than spreading lies again and again.

  • Eddie

    I’ve been vegan for almost 26 years and I’m in better shape at 47 than I was at 21.

  • Jam

    If you are a vegan, you look healthy and not skin and bones looking. Angelina looks like she has not eaten for a month and she looks so sickly, pale, and washed up all the time.

  • shannon

    Jealousy is not an attractive quality, all of you are pathetic.

    • Lisa

      Then why is Angelina still insecure and jealous of Jen? Telling the truth as it is, and dishing the facts that can be observed by all is NOT JEALOUSY. What is in her that people should be jealous at? LOL! A wimpy and pathetic Brad as a partner, a bunch of chaotic kids, a bombed but supposed to-be big time movie, a mentally unstable well-being, and her deep-seated insecurity? What can you and Angelina expect? Her bad mental disturbing behaviors should be praised, you mean? If people can observe her, then its because she did not hide her bad behaviors enough, it is not because people are jealous.

  • Gail

    Angelina is clearly anorexic. Maybe her unsound mind has something to do with it. Her body is extremely not normal. I am vegetarian, myself and don’t even eat dairy, even eggs, but my body is healthy. I am not fat nor skinny. She really has issues, whatever that means.

  • shannon

    So she’s not perfect, I nor her have claimed she is but that fact that you guys know all of that information is ridiculous, it’s not like information about her life is hanging on a flag pole outside of your house! And excuse me Ms. “vegetarian that doesn’t even eat dairy or eggs” not every vegetarian is going to look like you, she is obviously insanely active and older so yea she’s going to be skinny, plus it’s part of her job! Oh and Lisa how is she jealous of Jennifer Aniston or “Jen”.. please what is she your bff. I like her just as much as the next person but really neither of them have to be jealous of each other.

    • Quennie

      Any vegan out there, never look like a man/woman stricken with AIDS for having a skeleton twig body like that of Ms. Angelina. She’s dumb to think being vegetarian could make her look like a corpse, its her bad lifestyle of drugs and eating disorder combined.

  • Jay

    Bitch please. A vegan diet will NEVER negatively affect your health if you do it PROPERLY, which she clearly wasn’t. She’s an anorexic psycho.

    I’ve been vegan for 20 years and I’m very healthy. I feel and look pretty damn good. Eating meat/dairy does horrid things to your body. She looks like crap. Crapping out an assload of kids will screw up your looks as well. Another reason why I’ll never have any. ;) I’m 32 and people mistake me for 24/25 all the time. It feels amazing.

  • Amber

    Angelina is 35 and people mistake her for 45 all the time. Her mental illness must have taken a toll on her skeleton frame.

  • Leo

    She’s VILE and disgusting. I want her to go away.

  • jilly

    OLD HANDS!!!! That’s a good way to justify her old and ugly hands. I wonder if she is enjoying her boney and disgusting legs and huge feet too. Makes her feel like a great mother, I’m sure :)

  • Jennifer

    Yeah I bet Angelina loves her nasty, clawlike hands. She’s the only one. They creep all the rest of us out!

  • kris

    Being vegan made angelina buy nigger children… She can’t wait for maddox to grow up so she can fuck him too… Jennifer aniston must really be disgusting for the faggot brad pitt to want to have nigger children

    • shannon

      You are a disgusting racist and you should be ashamed of yourself.

  • Nancy

    This is one of Angelina’s stupid and insane explanation of her aging and melting body as if people would buy it. Its her karma that’s nearly killing her everytime. If people has no good conscience for being evil, it would show on their mind or body or both.

  • jilly

    KRIS, YOU ARE THE MOST DISGUSTING ASSHOLE WE HAVE EVER HAD ON THIS SITE. READING YOUR COMMENTS MAKES ME AND EVERYONE ELSE SICK. GET LOST YOU PEICE OF SHIT. I FEEL LIKE VOMITING ON YOU.

  • http://adventuresofcaptainteabot.blogspot.com/ KissWithAFist

    To be honest I think this is all very sensationalist. If you look at that sentence “being vegan nearly killed me” in the context of the paragraph it actually looks as if she’s saying it was because she missed eating red meat, not that her diet was so un-nutritional that she nearly died from it.

    Eg:

    “That cancer nearly killed me”

    is not the same as

    “I’ve got such a craving for some chocolate, its killing me”.

    • Tasha

      Read the rest of the post KissWithAFist.
      “… I wasn’t getting enough nutrition…”

  • Scully

    Wow, for the first time ever, I’m actually seeing intelligent posts in the comment fields of an article that mentions veg*nism. Bravo! :) Studies have shown that nutritionally, vegans have less vitamin/mineral deficiencies than meat eaters, so her argument is illogical. It sounds like she’s blaming veganism for her lack of proper food intake, way to displace blame (remember when she said she felt guilty eating when in starving countries?).

  • Rich

    A diet without animal products =/= being vegan.

  • Lovely

    Its not about being Vegan or eating red meats. Its Angelina’s eating disorder that she wants to disguise and claims her twiggy skeleton appearance is because of her being vegan. She can’t admit that her unstable mind and eating disorder made her like a scarecrow now.

  • CL.GARRY

    She needs a several years of strong healthy regime to compensate the drugs period. It’s only way to save career in future. Because she is becoming crazy: no more sex with Brad… Brad without his lovely SOFT TOYS?

  • CL.GARRY

    To Lovely: NOTHING PERSONAL, just play of the words!

    • Lovely

      I know, you can use that words, anytime. lol

  • Lovely

    Of course, its nothing personal CL. GARRY! Just because I pointed out Angelina’s eating disorder and unstable mental condition. Its dishing some facts and real reasons for her abnormal twiggy appearance, nothing personal at all. Maybe she forgot those things and blame it to vegan, instead. If she really is, a practicing Vegan, lol.

  • Gayle

    The fact that there are entire cultures representing millions of people who have lived and thrived for centuries without meat is enough evidence that humans do not “need” it to survive and thrive. In fact, the evidence weighs heavily in the other direction, i.e., the hazards of a meat and dairy diet and the benefits of a vegan diet are well known in the medical and scientific community.

    Also, there are hundreds of famous top level athletes -even Olympians- who are vegetarian or vegan. “Olympian of the Century” track star Carl Lewis, tennis champions Martina Navratilova and Billie Jean King, cricket star Anil Kumble, Mr. International bodybuilder Andreas Cahling, Heisman trophy winner Desmond Howard, Debbie Lawrence Olympic race-walker, four time Mr. Universe Bill Pearl, 4-time Olympic gold medalist Al Oerter, WBC World Middleweight Champion Keith Holmes, double Olympic Gold medalist in hurdles Edwin Moses, and Dave Scott, six-time Ironman triathlon winner, to name but a few.

    And finally, two-time winner of the most grueling race on earth is vegan Scott Jurek. The Badwater Ultra-marathon –the most demanding running race on the planet –covers 135 miles, nonstop, from Badwater in Death Valley to the trailhead of Mount Whitney in the Sierras, the highest mountain in the Lower 48. It crosses three mountain ranges with a combined, cumulative vertical ascent and descent of 17,400 feet, which is like a flight of stairs three miles high. Ultra because this race is five marathons back-to-back with another three miles tacked on to the end. The winner? Vegan competitor Scott Jurek, who also won the Badwater last year.

    Scott’s bio: “On his own journey towards optimal health, Scott began transitioning to a vegetarian whole foods diet in 1997, while competing in several ultra trail races per year. In 1999, he adopted a vegan diet out of further health and environmental concerns. Scott continues to fuel his body on completely vegan diet while competing in 10-12 ultramarathons per year in addition to his rigorous training schedule. All seven of his consecutive wins at the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run were performed on vegan fuel.”

    Clearly Angelina Jolie should rethink her misconceptions about vegan diets!

  • http://www.theherbprof.com Dr. Paul Blake, N.D.

    Angelina you need to get real you were on the right diet. I have seen a horse eat baby chicks on our farm when I was a kid. And probably if you put a feed bag of baby chicks under the horses nose every day it would eat them too. But it would not be long before the horse was fat and bloated with indigestion, headache’s, autoimmune diseases and arthritis stumbling around the farm passing gas everywhere it went like Angelina and 95% of the American public. The horse would live only half of its life time and die of cancer or a massive coronary somewhere out on the pasture.
    I am just telling the public the truth like the FDA, USDA and HHS should if they weren’t in the pockets of big agriculture the food business, pharmaceutical companies and the AMA. Who make nothing but profit off of feeding us garbage and toxic medications while we get sicker and sicker from doing just what my horse did.
    And of course my being one of those borne again close-minded, arrogant vegans due to discovering what it takes to beat cancer naturally. With out the entire load of BS the AMA wants to torture you with till you are on morphine and kicked out of the hospital so you will die elsewhere. I will keep on telling everyone who has a mind open enough to listen what the truth is. That they need to stop accepting the feedbag full of indigestible crap they are handed because they are considered suckers by those in the government, the AMA and big business get real take charge of their life.
    Paul

  • JD

    Being a vegan doesn’t just mean stop eating meat. You have to eat healthy. I have been a vegan for years and I eat very healthy and take care of myself. Chickpeas and tofu are some foods that can give u vitamins that meat has. beans, legumes, lentils have alot of iron too. I never felt sick. I felt healthier than ever!

  • Normal

    Veganism, a growing mental illness (if there really are such things as mental illnesses) is on the rise. I’ve never met a vegan that wasn’t pale, too thin to the point of skeletal, and drawn. For me, it’s personally a sick way to think. People fear food, or they have moral issues with it. It’s natural to eat meat. The underlying problem here is that there’s waaaayyy toooo many cultures mixing together here in the United States. At one time, we were renowned for having a surplus of food that other countries didn’t have. For God’s sake people, there are people starving all over the world, and vegans refuse to eat meat??? Do you know what a starving person would do to have the luxury of eating what you refuse to eat? Perhaps those from third world countries should adapt to the ways here in the US….We have people here from the islands and other poverty stricken countries that say Americans are unhealthy b/c they are fat or their cholesterol is high, yet these are the same people that didn’t have the luxury of eating meat and refuse to change and/or assimilate to our culture. Take your “vetanism” and shove it! Do as we do here in this country or get the hell out! If you don’t like it, simply go back to wherever it is that you flippin’ came from and leave our way of life alone! Oh, and take your diseases back with you too!

    • Vraziel

      Hahaha funny how American racists are so hypocritical. “Take your diseases back with you too!” You do know that when the Europeans “founded” this country they were the ones who brought the diseases with them right? Or maybe thats just something you never learned in the extremely biased American educational system. No wait, that can’t be it, because I never was taught that in school and yet I knew it, so it just has to be something else….Yep, I knew it, the something else is you’re just the typical low IQ moron dumbing down this country so much to the point that Sarah Palin may actually be president one day.

      “Veganism is a mental illness due to cultures mixing in the United States”? Do you realize how stupid that sounds? Well Im going to give you the benefit of the doubt on that one and just say youre racist because no one can be that stupid…..or can they?! Please tell me you’re not serious.

      “Take your Veganism and shove it, Do as we do or leave this country” Yeah because the US isnt a free country. Better reread that constitution boy! Or better yet, better READ the constitution to begin with.

      BLAHH maybe Im the moron here cause I took the time to reply to your moronic comment.

    • Tasha

      I do agree you you Normal. But my experience is that vegans are some of the most mean and hateful people i have ever met! They whine about sympathy, yet have none. I’m not sure i agree with your last part though lol

  • nap

    She knows nothing about being a vegan. Not getting enough nutrition? lol. I’m a vegan and I’ve never been better. You have to do your research before just going vegan by cutting out all your diet.

  • nap

    @ Normal… One of the reasons some people become vegan is to help reduce the highly wasteful use of land, feed and water for rearing farmed animals. Much better to grow food crops to feed the entire world, than produce meat to fatten a few…

    • Tasha

      Nap have you ever looked up and seen how much land and water it uses to grow crops?

  • Richie

    @ Normal. Are you a Native American Indian? If not, might I suggest you leave the US and take your racist remarks and twisted logic with you… (though I doubt any other country would want you)

    How many overweight animals have you seen in the wild? If meat is such a natural part of our diet then why were 74% of adults overweight in the US (approx 3% vegetarian), in 2007, compared to only 16% in Indian (approx 30% vegetarian, with less than 30% consuming meat regularly)?

    “Fear food”? “God’s sake”?! – “The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands. Everything that lives and moves will be food for you.” – (Genesis 9) God to Noah, after almost 2,000 years of veganism.

    • Tasha

      Richie, Meat isnt the cause of obesity… It’s sugar and deep frying.

    • Tasha

      Richie, Meat isnt the cause of obesity… It’s sugar. Reserch….

  • Leah

    Could you imagine if she got addicted to being vegan if it got her more attention. She probably would be eating her words.