Meet the 2008 Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrity Winners!
Singer and actor Faye Wong has been crowned Asia’s Sexiest Vegetarian woman for 2008, while Bollywood hottie Amitabh Bachchan has won the title of Asia’s Sexiest Vegetarian man. Hot Hollywood star Abbie Cornish, who has recently been seen in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, has taken the title for Australia’s Sexiest Vegetarian woman and singer and songwriter Xavier Rudd has been voted Australia’s Sexiest Vegetarian man.
Cornish, a longtime animal lover, has been vegetarian since she was 13, and she works with local animal protection group Voiceless to teach children empathy and compassion for animals. The AFI Award-winning actor says of her feelings for animals while growing up on a farm, “I was really puzzled by the idea that people could feel compassion for a dolphin but, at the same time, they were quite prepared to eat a cow or a pig. It was confusing because I thought of all animals as equal.”
Rudd, who went vegetarian after driving past a factory farm in California and seeing the crowded and barren conditions that animals live in, says, “When I realized how animals have to suffer in the meat industry, I decided never to eat meat again. The industry’s anonymity and the treatment of animals as worthless beings used only for production really annoyed me.”
Often referred to by her fans as “heavenly queen” or “diva of Asia,” Wong has graced the covers of Vogue, Elle, and Marie Claire, in addition to having a successful musical career. Bachchan, who is currently the highest-paid Bollywood actor, holds the record for the most Best Actor nominations at India’s Filmfare Awards.
Stars’ reasons for keeping animals off their plates are as diverse and inspiring as their talents—from avoiding the inexcusable cruelty to animals on factory farms and in slaughterhouses to improving their own health to helping the environment by not contributing to factory-farm pollution.
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Below is the complete list of vegetarian celebrities who were in the running.
Women
Abbie Cornish
Adalita
Alicia Mayer
Alicia Silverstone
Alyssa Milano
Angela Bassett
Barbie Hsu
Brigitte Bardot
Carré Otis
Carrie Underwood
Charli Robinson
Chelsea Clinton
Chin-Chin Gutierrez
Chrissie Hynde
Christie Brinkley
Chynna Phillips
Daryl Hannah
Deni Hines
Diane Warren
Diane Keaton
Elizabeth Berkley
Emily Barclay
Emily Deschanel
Emmylou Harris
Emmy Rossum
Erykah Badu
Faye Wong
Fiona Apple
Geneva Cruz
Gloria Steinem
Grace Slick
Hayden Panettiere
Hema Malini
India.Arie
Inoue Maki
Isabel Roces
Jackie O
Jane Wiedlin
Jenna Jameson
Jennie Garth
Joan Jett
Jorja Fox
Joss Stone
Judith Durham
Julie Christie
Kareena Kapoor
k.d. lang
Kim Basinger
Kristen Bell
KT Tunstall
Kylie Bax
Lauren Bush
Lindsay Wagner
Maggie Q
Mahima Chaudhry
Marilu Henner
Mary Tyler Moore
Meshel Laurie
Missy Higgins
Naomi Watts
Natalie Imbruglia
Natalie Portman
Pippa Black
Pamela Anderson
Persia White
Petra Nemcova
Princess Superstar
Rachael Leigh Cook
Radha Mitchell
Rosanna Arquette
Sadie Frost
Sami Lukis (MMM Brisbane)
Shania Twain
Shannon Elizabeth
Sheryl Lee
Stella McCartney
Sophie Monk
Stephey Teng
Summer Phoenix
Tatjana Patitz
Tatum O’Neal
Thora Birch
Traci Bingham
Vanessa Amorosi
Vanessa A. Williams
Vidya Balan
Wendie Malick
Yaya Meng
Yasmien Kurdi
Zeng LiMen
Alec Baldwin
Amitabh Bachchan
Andre 3000
Andrew G
Anthony Kiedis
Bob Barker
Bryan Adams
Carl Lewis
Casey Affleck
Chris Martin
Chris Ross (Wolfmother)
Corey Feldman
Corey Wills
Damian Marley
Damon Dash
Dan Males
Daniel Johns
Darren Cordeux (Kisschasy)
Dave Callan
Dave Meyers
Ed Begley Jr.
Edward Furlong
Eric Stoltz
Forest Whitaker
Fred Schneider
Grant Aleksander
Greg Chappell
Gregg Turkington (“Neil Hamburger”)
Guy Pearce
GZA
Ian McKellen
James Cromwell
Jared Leto
Jason Schwartzman
JD Fortune
Joaquin Phoenix
John Butler
John Cleese
John Feldmann
Justin Theroux
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Kevin Eubanks
Kevin Nealon
Kristoff St. John
KRS-One
Leonard Nimoy
Lindsay McDougall (the Doctor, JJJ)
Little Richard
Lonnie Lee
Mac Danzig
Madhavan
Masami Akita
Masta Killa
Michael Stipe
Michael Bolton
Michael Franti
Mike White
Milo Ventimiglia
Moby
Morrissey
Mos Def
Murray Rose
Noah Wyle
Orlando Jones
Paul Mac
Paul McCartney
Perry Farrell
Peter “Blackie” Black
Prince
Prodigy
Q-Tip
Raymond Bagatsing
Rick Rubin
Rikki Rockett
Rivers Cuomo (Weezer)
Rob Zombie
Robert De Costella
Ruben Studdard
Rupert Everett
Russell Simmons
RZA
Sean Astin
Serj Tankian
Stephen Marley
Steve Jobs
Thom Yorke
Tim Rogers
Tobey Maguire
Todd Oldham
Tony La Russa
Vince Jones
Will Estes
Woody Harrelson
Xavier Rudd
Yoshida Go
