It's time to re-evaluate the age-old questions that have plagued society for time immemorial: How are celebrities so hot? How do they stay hot? Is it their wealth—if you sleep on a bed of money, do you never age?
If that were true, George Lucas (ranked America's wealthiest celebrity in 2018) wouldn't look like George Lucas. Or is it as Jane Fonda says: "Good genes and a lot of money?" After living in the age of celebrity tabloid culture, toxic diet culture, and Instagram, most people agree that it is largely determined by good genes—but also a good diet. As such, celebrities are said to follow such outlandish (and dangerous) eating patterns as the "baby food diet," "the cookie diet," and the "mushroom diet."
You could also go vegan, like many of the hottest and probably healthiest celebrities today. While we want to dissuade you from the misconception that veganism is merely a diet or a fad rather than a committed lifestyle, November 1 is World Vegan Day, which means that if you eat beef in public, you might an angry stare from the 11% of the world population who are thought to follow a vegan, vegetarian, or even semi-vegetarian lifestyle. In response, you can just glare at them defiantly and say, "Do you want me to look like 2018's 'most beautiful vegan,' Benedict Cumberbatch? No? I didn't think so." Actually, don't do that. They're likely to start listing the dozens of hot celebrities who are also vegan—and while many are activists to encourage public awareness about animal cruelty and the environmental ravages of meat production, we're mostly listing them because they're hot.
So in honor of World Vegan Day: Educate yourself that veganism is a lifestyle and not just a diet, meat production has many damaging consequences, veganism may be the "single biggest way" to reduce your carbon footprint (up to 73%), and while not all vegans are hot, luckily there are so many types of hot that showing empathy and compassion for creatures other than ourselves might be the hottest quality to have.
Benedict Cumberbatch
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Benedict Cumberbatch at the Cinema Society Screening of Marvel Studios's Doctor Strange
Of course we're starting here. In 2018, he was even named PETA's Most Beautiful Vegan.
▲Miley Cyrus
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Mylie Cyrus
The inflammatory pop singer has the honor of being dubbed a "super vegan" by PETA, or more precisely, the "veganest vegan to ever vegan."
▲Natalie Portman
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Natalie Portman at the photocall for Thor - Love and Thunder
Portman gets extra respect for being frank about the limitations of a vegan diet (even when you can afford the finest foods in the world) and the extra steps it takes to stay healthy: "I'm vegan, so I generally have a very clean diet; I usually have oatmeal or avocado toast in the morning ... I take vitamins too — vitamin D, and I'm still on prenatal vitamins. I get B12 shots once a month because it's the one thing you don't get from a vegan diet."
▲Ariana Grande
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Ariana Grande at the 2018 MET Gala
The pop singer says she's been vegan since 2013. "I love animals more than I love most people, not kidding. But I am a firm believer in eating a full plant-based, whole food diet that can expand your life length and make you an all-around happier person," she told Mirror UK.
▲Zac Efron
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Zac Efron
"That's [veganism] completely changed the way that my body works, and the way that I metabolize food, the way it turns into energy, the way that I sleep. It's been brilliant. It's been great for my exercise, and great for my routine," he told Teen Vogue.
▲Gisele Bündchen
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Gisele Bündchen
The supermodel and mother of two is raising her family as vegans. "We all love it. It's not only good for our health and makes us feel good, but it is also good for the planet," she told People.
▲Olivia Wilde
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Olivia Wilde
While veganism is not a diet nor a lifestyle that can be sustained if you're only motivated to be hot, that can be a nice side effect. As Wilde once told the Huffington Post, "[Being vegan] is not always easy and accessible, but it's a way of life and makes me as a person feel really good and physically look better."
▲Portia de Rossi and Ellen Degeneres
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Ellen Degeneres
The couple live on a farm and have a deep affection for all animals. de Rossi turned vegan under her wife's influence. "I always thought going vegan would be difficult, but I genuinely don't crave meat or cheese," she told O, The Oprah Magazine. "And I feel happier, like I'm contributing to making the world a less violent place."
▲Bill Clinton
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Former President Bill Clinton
What? Some people are into presidential-hot. After experiencing heart problems, Clinton turned to a vegan diet to try to...you know, not die.
"I just decided that I was the high-risk person, and I didn't want to fool with this anymore. And I wanted to live to be a grandfather. So I decided to pick the diet that I thought would maximize my chances of long-term survival," he told AARP.
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