The Untold Truth Of Julia Stiles

Julia Stiles is one of the many celebrities who's stopped eating meat in favor of vegetarianism. As she shared in an interview with EcoStiletto (via Vegetarian Star), she made the decision to go vegan for a variety of reasons, including her own health, disturbing information she'd read about factory farming, and her own "spiritual reasons" for eschewing meat. 

However, as she revealed during a 2003 appearance on "Conan," she then segued from vegetarian to vegan, something she subsequently realized was "a big mistake." In fact, she declared, "I gave it up. I became really badly anemic ... it's not healthy if you can't do it right, so I just stopped it." Asked how she felt when she took her first bite of red meat again, she gushed, "Oh god, the word 'orgasm' comes to mind." Jokingly lamenting the fate of those "poor little cows," she admitted, "It tastes real good."

However, she subsequently told Female First that particular remark was something she'd come to regret, explaining she'd exaggerated in order to get some laughs on a late-night talk show. "I changed diet because it really wasn't healthy," she explained. "Being vegan is a hard thing to do ... When you are traveling there is no way you can get proper nutrition. So now I do eat some red meat but not all the time."