14 DAY TRIAL // For years, actress Natalie Portman has been a vegan. Not only that, but she’s been actively campaigning against eating meat, even comparing it to physical abuse. Now that she’s pregnant with her first child, she’s had a change of heart.
In all fairness, Natalie is still not eating meat, but at least she’s ditched veganism and is now a simple vegetarian: the difference is that she now eats dairy.
In a recent radio interview to promote the critically-panned comedy “Your Highness” cited by Us Magazine, Portman admits that her diet has seen some changes since she learned she was with child.
Understandably, she doesn’t want not to give in to pregnancy cravings, while also thinking of the health of the child.
As such, she’s introduced dairy in her diet.
“I actually went back to being vegetarian when I became pregnant, just because I felt like I wanted that stuff. I was listening to my body to have eggs and dairy and that sort of stuff,” the Oscar-winning actress says.
Staying a vegan was clearly a good option, since others have done it before her (and to great results no less), but she wanted to make sure she took proper care of the baby, she says.
“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 in your diet,” Natalie explains.
“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 adds.
“I actually wanted eggs at the beginning and then they grossed me out after a while,” Natalie says with a laugh.
Speaking of the baby, the actress admits she and fiancé Benjamin Millepied don’t know yet whether they’re having a boy or a girl – because they believe in not doing much until the baby comes, and that includes knowing the sex, buying baby clothes and coming up with a name.