Natalie Portman Abandons Vegan Diet

Online, April 12, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Natalie Portman made the choice to become a vegan seemingly based on moral convictions and not health. Now that she's pregnant she's having a hard time sticking to the diet because of the changes her body is going through.

According to Erin Carlson:

"I actually went back to being vegetarian when I became pregnant, just because I felt like I wanted that stuff," Portman tells the Q100 Bert Show in Atlanta. "I was listening to my body to have eggs and dairy and that sort of thing." (In addition to meat, eggs, dairy and any other products derived from animals are off-limits in the vegan diet.)

"I know there are people who do stay vegan, but I think you have to just be careful, you have to watch your iron levels and your b12 levels and supplement ... things you might be low in your diet," warns Portman, who turned vegan two years ago after reading Jonathan Safran Foer's book "Eating Animals."

In an essay written for the Huffington Post, Portman said the book reminded her that "some things are just wrong":

"Perhaps others disagree with me that animals have personalities, but the highly documented torture of animals is unacceptable," Portman wrote. "And the human cost Foer describes in his book, of which I was previously unaware, is universally compelling."

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The vegan diet may be healthy for some people but there's still a risk that people following this diet may not get adequate nutrition without supplements. As with any diet success has a lot to do with in being part of the lifestyle. This is exactly shy Natalie is having issues following the diet during her pregnancy.