Portia De Rossi and Ellen DeGeneres Are Vegans 

We heard Ellen DeGeneres mention on her show that she and wife Portia De Rossi had a vegan menu at their wedding.  Now, the couple is talking about their total vegan lifestyle, which the couple adopted just last year.

Portia explains:

“We just made that shift in our lives. The benefit of it is weight loss. For her more than me. Her body responded to it very well. It is amazing. We are just both very happy. It feels like such a compassionate choice. We are such animal lovers, why stop short of cows and chickens? It didn’t make any sense.”

“When Ellen and I first got together I was wearing fur and Ellen was wearing very expensive Italian calfskin leather. She was giving me a hard time about wearing the fur and I said, ‘Why is a fox any more important than a cow?’ We took that idea and went all the way with it. We are doing what we can.”

Since vegans don’t believe in wearing leather, has Ellen given up her much-loved tennis shoes? Ellen has a style of her own and she is known for having LOTS of pairs of leather tennis shoes. I’ll have to start paying closer attention on her show to see if I can tell if she is wearing leather shoes or not. Interesting!