Now that I’ve been reminded of this, I can’t believe the tabloids haven’t been making a bigger deal of it. Do you remember that Jessica Simpson’s baby-daddy/Yalie K-Fed is a vegan? She made him tofurky for Thanksgiving last year (“it was jiggly and weird,” Jessica reported) and she regularly takes Eric to steakhouses too. Anyway, according to the Enquirer, Jessica has now become a vegan. She’s a Texas girl, and I thought she would always love her steak, but maybe she has given up meat (and dairy?) for Eric. In any case, The Enquirer is reporting that Jessica is interested in raising the baby as a vegan. Oh, and she wants to have a home birth too.

Jessica Simpson wants to deliver her baby at home, and may even raise the child as a vegan, insiders say. Jessica decided on a home birth after watching Ricki Lake’s 2008 documentary, The Business of Being Born, sources say. And since Jessica and fiancé Eric Johnson are vegans now, they’re considering raising their child with the same healthy, no-meat diet, insiders say.

“Jessica is hell-bent on the idea of giving birth naturally at home after watching Ricki’s documentary… she’d love to deliver her baby in the comfortable surroundings of her LA mansion.”

As for the vegan diet, Eric introduced her to veganism in May 2010, when they began dating. Since then, she’s been swapping steaks for tofo, and she’s reaped the benefits of a healthier lifestyle, said the source.

“After becoming a vegan, Jessica lost a little weight, her cholesterol level dropped, her skin looked better and she felt more energized,” the source divulged. “Both she and Eric want the best for their baby, and they believe he or she will be healthier raised as a vegan.”

[From The Enquirer, print edition]

The home birth thing, I don’t even want to get into that. I’ve described my extreme and disturbingly all-consuming fear of childbirth, and if I’m ever pregnant, I will ask for an old-school, Mad-Men-style twilight-sleep birth, and failing that, I’ll ask that they just punch me in the face until I lose consciousness. So I’m in way qualified to speak about home births or any kind of births. As for the vegan thing – well, I have my doubts that Jessica is even a “vegan” right now, during her pregnancy. Considering she chose to got knocked up by a vegan, I think Jess is probably trying to eat healthier and avoid meat more than she used to, but I hope that like Natalie Portman before her, Jess just gives in to whatever she’s craving while pregnant, and deciding on what’s best for the baby when it comes.

Photos courtesy of WENN & Fame.

It seems like Emily Deschanel, 34, has been pregnant for an awfully long time. Like I even forgot that she was pregnant we haven’t heard from her in so long, and it seems like she was far along the last time we heard anything about her. The Bones star has a new interview in Fit Pregnancy, where she reveals her birth plan and how she’s been exercising and eating healthy during her first pregnancy. Emily last made headlines for revealing that she’s eating vegan during her pregnancy. She explained to Fit Pregnancy how she’s getting enough nutrients and protein, and it sounds like she has it all under control.

Highlight the empty space below for a Bones Spoiler
We hear that your pregnancy is being written into the show
Yes, it will be revealed that I’m pregnant and that it is Booth’s child. So now we are living .together, trying to figure it all out – the couple thing, the parents thing – and how it will affect our working relationship.

What has been most challenging for you?
The fatigue is the hardest part. We work 14 to 16 hour days and, for the first trimester, we weren’t telling people about the pregnancy, so it was hard. Now it’s just things like putting on shoes, getting up off the ground. It’s comical.

You’re a committed vegan. Has keeping up that way of eating been a challenge?
I don’t think it’s any more challenging for me than for anyone else. You have to make sure you get all those essential nutrients. The real challenge for a vegan is getting vitamin b12, and omega-3s, but you can get those in a vegetarian supplement. I’ve increased my protein intake with beans and brown rice, and shakes made with almond milk and hemp powder. The funny this is, I love kale and always used to put it in my breakfast shakes, but for some reason I can’t stand it right now.

Any cravings?
Lemonade! I want it all the time. That and grapefruit. Those cravings I indulge. But I also crave chocolate all the time, and I try to ignore that.

What kind of prenatal exercise do you do?
I’m still Spinning and doing yoga – right now it’s a prenatal yoga DVD I do at home – but I really love classes. I like the music and the motivation you get from the people in class with you. And I’m walking a lot these days.

How do you plan to balance motherhood with your busy life?
I have no idea, but I’m lucky because I’ll have a nanny and I’ll also be able to bring the baby to work. Otherwise I’d never seen him or her. [The couple is not revealing the baby's gender before the birth?

Will you breastfeed?
Absolutely, for a year, maybe longer. I'm a total hippie, so we will co-sleep and breastfeed. My mom breastfed me for more than a year, and I can't imagine doing it any other way. It's cheap and much better for the environment, and you don't have to lug all that stuff around. I'm not saying it's for everyone, but I'm determined, even if it's hard at first.

What are your plans for the birth?
We've been taking HypnoBirthing classes, and I plan to do that. David will be with me, and also a doula.

[From Fit Pregnancy, print edition, via ONTD]

I’ve mentioned before that I did a hypnobirth at a birth center. ONTD ran this story with the caption “Emily’s doing a hypnobirth with only her husband and a doula!” but she didn’t say that, just that she would have a doula there. A doula doesn’t deliver the baby, their role is to be like a coach to the mom while the midwife or doctor does the delivery. We hired a doula when I had my son (my only kid). I assume Emily will be using a birth center, although she could be planning a homebirth (I didn’t use a birth center for some noble reason, I just fear hospitals and have had bad reactions to medication. Everyone should do their own thing when it comes to having their babies.) I will say that it was way harder than I thought it would be, but that I really didn’t need the doula. It was kind of a waste of money to hire her since there was a midwife and my husband was there with me.

I’m not a huge Bones fan and don’t watch a lot of crime-type shows (like Kaiser!), but I get why people like Emily. She seems like a very nice person. She’s into natural living and is a vegan, but she’s not preachy about it at all and is even a little self deprecating. She even admits that she’ll have a nanny. I bet she’s due soon and we’ll be hearing about her new baby any day now!

Here are some new photos of Emily Deschanel and her lovely bump at yesterday’s screening of A Perfect Family at the Outfest Festival in LA. I think pregnancy agrees with her – I’ve always found her so beautiful, and the added weight fills out her face in a really gorgeous way. Judging her simply from these photos, I think she looks healthy and happy. But Emily is in the midst of a controversy because of her eating choices while pregnant. You see, Emily switched from vegetarianism to veganism several years ago, and she’s maintaining her veganism throughout her pregnancy. That means no meat, no eggs, no dairy for the baby. Emily discussed her veganism in the August issue of Ladies’ Home Journal:

Cravings aside, when it comes to pregnancy essentials, Emily Deschanel has a solid go-to.

“I have a friend from junior high who’s expecting a baby right before I am,” the Bones actress, who will welcome her first child with husband David Hornsby this fall, tells Ladies’ Home Journal‘s August issue.

“Now we’re sharing stories about our cravings and how our bodies are changing. We compare notes.”

She adds: “Having someone like this is so reassuring. It connects me to an essential part of myself.”

But when it comes to cravings, Deschanel’s go-to fixes all have one thing in common: She’s vegan, so she doesn’t consume any animal products, including dairy and eggs.

“I feel aligned with my morals and ethics. Saying no to meat makes me feel stronger inside; I feel aligned with my morals and ethics. I still have to defend myself because people don’t understand it. As a pregnant woman especially, people will say to me, ‘You must eat meat and dairy.’ You really have to tap into your self-esteem whenever people try to convince you you’re making the wrong choice.”

Ready to raise a child, Deschanel, 34, reflected on her own upbringing. Born in Los Angeles, she wasn’t always in-tune with the more shallow demands of the industry.

“In Hollywood there’s so much pressure to appear a certain way — to be skinny and to look young,” she says. “When I was growing up, I never cared about whether I was pretty or not. But when I was 12, a friend’s mom told me I was flat-chested and had fat thighs.”

She continues: “That really hurt my feelings and it kind of scarred me. I started becoming aware of how other people judged me.”

[From People]

Emily’s dietician Ashley Koff did an interview with People Magazine just a few days after the LHJ interview came out. Koff defended Emily’s pregnancy diet, saying in part: “What we want to do is give the body just enough energy so that it performs well. Energy is a really significant issue for her… What has probably been a challenge for her is making sure that she has nutrient-dense food that she’s able to have every three hours.” The solution seems to be lots of nuts, pita and hummus, which… I love all of that, but I couldn’t it eat every day for nine months. It’s Emily’s body, her choice, etc, but I do tend to think pregnant women especially should listen to what their bodies are craving. I mean, even Natalie Portman went back to dairy during her pregnancy.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Natalie Portman has been a vegetarian or a vegan for many, many years. She was always very vocal about it, even writing about it in a now-infamous Huffington Post essay regarding Jonathan Safran Foer’s book Eating Animals back in 2009. Natalie was criticized back then for the essay because while she defended her veganism in particular and Foer’s book in general, she took a novel approach – comparing meat-eaters to rapists. For. Real. Here’s the relevant passage:

I say that Foer’s ethical charge against animal eating is brave because not only is it unpopular, it has also been characterized as unmanly, inconsiderate, and juvenile. But he reminds us that being a man, and a human, takes more thought than just “This is tasty, and that’s why I do it.” He posits that consideration, as promoted by Michael Pollan in The Omnivore’s Dilemma, which has more to do with being polite to your tablemates than sticking to your own ideals, would be absurd if applied to any other belief (e.g., I don’t believe in rape, but if it’s what it takes to please my dinner hosts, then so be it).

[From Portman’s Huffington Post essay]

So, someone with such strong beliefs – strong enough to compare the non-vegan lifestyle to rape – should be able to stick with it even while pregnant, right? Wrong. As it turns out, while Natalie is pregnant, she’s been giving in to all of her rape fantasies about dairy:

Natalie Portman is giving into her cravings. The 29-year-old Your Highness star — who is expecting her first child with fiance Benjamin Millepied later this summer — is no longer a vegan.

“I actually went back to being vegetarian when I became pregnant, just because I felt like I wanted that stuff,” she said during a Monday phone interview with the Q100 Bert Show in Atlanta. “I was listening to my body to have eggs and dairy and that sort of stuff.”

“I know there are people who do stay vegan,” she added, “but I think you have to just be careful, watch your iron levels and your B12 levels and supplement those if there are things you might be low in in your diet.”

The Oscar-winning actress — who became a vegan in 2009 after reading Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals — doesn’t regret her decision to become a vegetarian again.
“If you’re not eating eggs, then you can’t have cookies or cake from regular bakeries, which can become a problem when that’s all you want to eat,” she laughed. “I actually wanted eggs at the beginning and then they grossed me out after awhile.”

Food cravings aside, Portman added that she doesn’t know the sex of her unborn child — and she has no plans to find out any time soon, either.

“People can say a lot of things and they have a 50 percent chance of being right,” she laughed. “I’m Jewish and I think in Judaism, there’s a lot of superstition around not doing too much before the baby comes.”

[From Us Weekly]

Look, she has every right to eat whatever she wants while pregnant (and not pregnant, for that matter). It’s good she cares more about giving in to her cravings and getting the necessary nutrients rather than trying to adhere to veganism’s limitations. And hey, it’s not like she’s actually eating meat again – she’s just given in to dairy! Still, it’s kind of funny considering what a big friggin’ deal she made about becoming a vegan. And I just love the phrase “raping dairy” now.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

These are photos of Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson out and about in LA on Friday. The agency says they are leaving the club Trousdale. You can tell, because Jessica looks toasty – and we know how she loves to get drunk. However, The Daily Mail reports that before they even went clubbing, Jessica at least had a big meal. Jessica took her VEGAN fiancé to BOA Steakhouse. Um, I guess they have salads there?

Jessica Simpson’s fiancé Eric Johnson took a firm grip on his lady as they took a stroll out for dinner last night in West Hollywood. The newly engaged couple laughed and smiled and seemed delighted to be together after enjoying a meal at BOA Steakhouse.

The restaurant was quite clearly Jessica’s choice, given her partner of seven months is a staunch vegan.

The 30-year-old singer looked casually chic in a monochrome outfit for her date night with her man. She wore a black and white chequered mini-skirt and paired it with a black blazer. Her black Louis Vuitton bag accessorised her outfit perfectly.

Promoting her new album Happy Christmas she said: ‘We have not started planning. I’m trying to get through all this promotion. Who knows what will happen? I personally have no idea. I have not set a date and I can’t even think about putting together like table settings and all that. We’re just going to enjoy the engagement and we’ll get married the moment we feel like it.’

However, the star revealed she hoped the marriage to the 31-year-old American footballer would take place within the next year.

‘By next Christmas, hopefully,’ she said. ‘We don’t have any plans but I’m pretty sure by next Christmas we’ll be married.’

[From The Daily Mail]

Yeah, I think they’ll be married on or by New Year’s, so what do I know? I don’t think this “whirlwind” romance is going to have an extended engagement. As far as the whole vegan thing, jointly with the steakhouse thing… I honestly don’t think Jessica understands what “vegan” is. Eric probably told her that he couldn’t eat turkey because he’s vegan and Jessica is like “Oh, but he can eat steak, right?”

Photos courtesy of WENN.

This is the face Jessica Simpson made when she heard that her fiancé’s “healer” told him to eat Tofurky. Yes, Jessica and Eric Johnson spent the Thanksgiving holiday in NYC, as opposed to Texas I guess. Jessica was in town to lip sync at the Macy’s parade under a Pillsbury Doughboy cloud, which are still my favorite Jessica Simpson photos, EVER (see the Pillsbury Doughboy photo bombing Jessica below). As for Eric’s veganism and how a proud meat-eater like Jessica dealt with the situation… well, if People Magazine is be trusted, then Jessica actually cooked some vegan dishes for her man and his family:

Jessica Simpson was one busy woman on Thanksgiving.

In the morning, she participated in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Later, the multi-talented star whipped up a vegan-friendly holiday feast for fiancé Eric Johnson and their families – in her hotel suite, no less.

The newly engaged singer, 30, who just released her new holiday album Happy Christmas, cooked a turkey, but made sure to include some vegan delicacies for her health-minded hubby-to-be.

“She cooked mostly traditional food with some vegan dishes for Eric and his family,” says a source close to the couple.

Simpson had to get creative to make Thanksgiving dinner for so many people at her hotel. “They had an oven brought into her suite,” says the source. “She also used the hotel kitchen.”

Simpson did not make a Tofurkey for her future husband, which she had joked about with Jimmy Fallon last week. “After getting out of the NFL, [Eric] went to this healer and is very healthy,” she said. “For Thanksgiving we have to make a Tofurkey!”

And tucking into a vegan meal is a far cry from what Simpson is used to eating, she told Fallon. “I’m from Texas – I’d fry a steak,” she laughed. “We eat all casseroles and giblets!”

Also at the Thanksgiving dinner in New York were Simpson’s parents, Johnson’s parents and some close friends. (Sister Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, her husband Pete Wentz and their son, Bronx, spent Thanksgiving in Los Angeles.)

After dinner, the group headed to Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., to watch the New York Jets beat the Cincinnati Bengals.

“Jessica and Eric had a great day with their families and a bunch of their friends,” says the source.

[From People]

Um, do you believe that this happened? The part about getting an oven brought up into the hotel suite and Jessica cooking the whole thing…? Yeah, that one reeks. Papa Joe was smoking some crack when he called in this “tip” to People Magazine. My guess is that when Jessica “used the hotel kitchen” she was in fact using the hotel staff because she didn’t know how to make turkey of the vegan sea.

Even more Jessica Simpson stuff! I know, I know. But she’s so easy to talk about and write about. Anyway, Jess was on Jimmy Fallon last night, and she said something that kind of amused me. According to Jess, Eric Johnson is the kind of dude who goes to see “healers”. Hand. To. God. So, Eric went to see a “healer” and this dude told Eric that he needed to be healthier – that he needs to become a vegan. As you can imagine, Jessica in all of her Texan glory is struggling to understand what this mysterious “Tofurkey” is. Or, as Jess says, “It’s gonna be jiggly and weird.” Pot, kettle.

This Thanksgiving will be full of firsts for Jessica Simpson: her first with fiancé Eric Johnson, her first in New York, and her first with a tofu turkey.

“After getting out of the NFL, [Eric] went to this healer and is very healthy,” Simpson, 30, told Jimmy Fallon of her vegan husband-to-be. “For Thanksgiving we have to make a Tofurkey! It doesn’t sound right! It’s gonna be jiggly and weird.”

And while the singer, who just released her Christmas album, acknowledges that “when [Johnson] cooks vegan, it’s good,” she also admits that she comes from a very different background.

“I’m from Texas – I’d fry a steak,” she laughed. “We eat all casseroles and giblets!”

Dietary preferences aside, Simpson said she’s “very, very happy” in her relationship, and that Johnson proposed to her in the spot they met: her home.

[From People]

Poor Jess. I’ve known and loved vegans in my life, and I wouldn’t wish a vegan Thanksgiving on anyone. The Tofurky is fine (not really), but what I would really miss is the ham. Sweet, delicious ham. Mmm…

By the way, these photos are of Jessica and Eric last night – I guess they were going out to dinner? I hate Jessica’s puffy black jacket. It’s very unflattering. And I still don’t know why their body language is still so awkward. Why can’t they just hold hands? Why does Eric have to crook his arm so it’s like every day is Jessica’s debutante ball?

Photos courtesy of Fame.

This story has the stench of bullcrap, but let’s play along. British sites began pushing these alleged quotes from Angelina Jolie a few days ago, and they’re making my eye twitch. Angelina “recently told reporters” that she used to be a vegan…? When, exactly? Way back in the 1990s when she was still doing drugs? That’s not really being a vegan, Angelina, that’s having an drug-related eating disorder. Of course she wasn’t eating meat or dairy – she wasn’t eating ANYTHING. Anyway, the quotes are all about how she used to be vegan and now she loves some meat:

Angelina Jolie, who recently came under fire for looking scary-skinny at the Berlin premiere of Salt, says her diet and beauty secret is red meat.

“I joke that a big, juicy steak is my beauty secret,” Jolie, 35, recently told reporters. “But seriously, I love red meat. I was a vegan for a long time, and it nearly killed me. I found I was not getting enough nutrition.”

Meanwhile, partner Brad Pitt is allegedly unhappy with Angelina’s meat addiction, and prefers their children eat a vegetarian diet.

“Brad hates seeing the children eating meat and he’s annoyed with how much red meat Angelina has,” a source told a British tabloid in 2009.

Ironically, Angelina followed a high-carb, low-protein diet and ate 5-6 small meals every day while training for Salt, for which she did many of her own stunts.

A sequel is reportedly in the works, for which Jolie is again expected to train three hours a day learning the martial arts Muay Thai and Krav Maga.

“I love doing action,” Jolie gushes. “I love to punch things, jump off things and shoot, so I’m lucky I got the job.”

To date, Salt has grossed $217.6 million since its July 23 U.S. release. Meanwhile, the Oscar winner is set to direct, producer and write a love story set during the Bosnian War.

“The film focuses on a Serbian man and a Bosnian woman who meet on the eve of the war and the effect the war has on their relationship,” says a rep.

Jolie wrote the screenplay for the movie, which will star local actors of various ethnicities from the region of the former Yugoslavia.

[From The Improper]

The whole “Brad is a vegetarian” angle was already dismissed last year when that particular story came out – Brad has at times cut meat out of his diet, but he and Angelina are both very happily meat-eaters at this time. I love a good steak too (in moderation!), so I have nothing to say about this story other than I seriously doubt Angelina was ever a vegan.

Angelina Jolie on August 17, 2010 and August 27, 2010. Credit: Fame.

If you ever wanted to know what Natalie Portman would look like as a rockabilly, here’s the magazine cover of your dreams. Natalie posed for the cover of V Magazine decked out in her best pompadour and “screw you” look. Meh. I think Natalie (at 28 years old) is one of the prettiest girls around, but this cover and the accompanying photos aren’t amazing, in my opinion. The photo shoot was done by Mario Testino, and the interview excerpts are all over the place. Here’s a summary:

Natalie on the short shelf-life of actresses in Hollywood: “You see people who were stars five years ago and already they’re waning. As actresses approach 40, it starts becoming really, really difficult.”

On plastic surgery: She’s still years from that marker, she’s ambivalent about plastic surgery in the future. “I would hope not,” she says of whether she’d ever go under the knife. She does not, however, completely rule it out, explaining that she won’t know how she’ll feel as she ages. While wrinkles aren’t a problem yet, she admits, “if I have a pimple I want to get rid of it.”

Natalie on her “acting” in the Star Wars franchise: “My acting was not exactly respected in those [Star Wars] films but those are the moments when you want to prove yourself again. When people think I suck, it helps.”

On websites poaching her naked body from movie stills: “[O]nline bullsh-t interferes with what I want to do artistically. I’m not opposed to sexuality or nudity in a film, but I’m very opposed to [pr0n] sites and you’re pretty much giving them material if you do any of that.”

On her already-buzzed about sex-filled lesbian role in Black Swan: “It’s not raunchy- it’s extreme.”

[V Magazine interview excerpts from People Magazine, CoverAwards and Radar]

I don’t really have a problem with most of what she’s talking about, but I always hate it when an actor disrespects their own films. It always strikes me as rude and unprofessional. If you hate the job so much, why the f-ck did you take it? Maybe it’s that I used to adore Natalie, but lately every move she’s made has been grating on my nerves. First, she signed the Polanski petition, and then she wrote about a widely-circulated and disseminated piece being a vegetarian for the Huffington Post. In that piece, she defends the notion that eating meat is somehow akin to rape. Seriously. This is what she wrote: “[Jonathan Safran Foer] reminds us that being a man, and a human, takes more thought than just ‘This is tasty, and that’s why I do it.’ He posits that consideration, as promoted by Michael Pollan in The Omnivore’s Dilemma, which has more to do with being polite to your tablemates than sticking to your own ideals, would be absurd if applied to any other belief (e.g., I don’t believe in rape, but if it’s what it takes to please my dinner hosts, then so be it).” Uh, no. This is why Natalie is no longer one of my favorites. If you want to be a vegan or a vegetarian, fine. But by eating a steak, I’m not raping anyone.

Thanks to Cover Awards for these pics

Here’s my confession: I’m not any kind of animal rights activist, and yet I love animals. I love eating meat, but I know I wouldn’t want to if I saw how it was made. I know so many livestock animals are treated poorly, but you’ll only take this chicken wing from my cold, dead hand. I know so many animal rights people have their hearts in the right place, and when they start in about one of my most beloved meats, I get upset. So it is with Ginnifer Goodwin.

Ginnifer is trying to destroy Thanksgiving. Instead of eating a juicy turkey with fluffy mashed potatoes, all slathered in gravy, Ginnifer wants us to skip the whole bird-slaughter stuff. She’s become a vegan, and she thinks we should adopt a motherf-cking turkey. Now… here’s the thing. I don’t hate vegans, and I don’t hate Ginnifer for adopting all of the turkeys her little heart desires. But asking me to skip the turkey? On Thanksgiving? Seriously?

Thanksgiving may be weeks away, but Ginnifer Goodwin thinks it’s time to talk turkey. The star of HBO’s Big Love is urging the public to skip the savory poultry this holiday season and adopt a turkey instead.

Goodwin – who went vegan last year – has teamed up with Farm Sanctuary to launch the animal protection organization’s Adopt-A-Turkey Project, which is designed to rescue commercially-raised birds from ending up on the dinner table.

“After spending time with the rescued turkeys at Farm Sanctuary’s shelter and seeing how similar they are to my furry companion animals at home, I knew I needed to do everything in my power to protect these friendly and curious birds from the daily pain and suffering they endure on factory farms,” says Goodwin.

The organization has rescued more than 1,000 turkeys since 1986 by giving people the opportunity to adopt a bird, who will live at one of Farm Sanctuary’s two shelters in New York and California. For a one-time donation of $25, the turkey sponsors receive a special certificate with a color photo of their rescued bird and fun details about their new friend.

With than 45 million turkeys slaughtered each year for Thanksgiving, Goodwin wants people to consider what they’re eating for the holidays.

“With so many delicious, cruelty-free Thanksgiving dishes available, there is no reason why any living being should be treated like an unfeeling commodity,” says Goodwin. “I encourage everyone to start a new, compassionate Thanksgiving tradition this year and Adopt-A-Turkey, rather than eat one.”

[From Radar]

Fun fact about turkeys: Ben Franklin once wrote that the turkey should be America’s national bird. He wrote in a letter to his daughter: “For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral Character. For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America . . . He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.” See, now if the turkey were the national bird, we couldn’t kill it or eat it. I also love the idea that Ben Franklin makes distinctions between birds “of bad moral Character” and more respectable birds.

Another fun fact about turkeys – a turkey once attacked my mother’s car. She was driving down the highway and a wild kamikaze turkey threw itself into my mother’s car, shattered her windshield and she had to be hospitalized. My point? I don’t give a sh-t if they have good moral character, they’re dumb birds and I’m going to eat them.

Here’s Ginnifer at the screening of ‘The September Issue’ at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on September 9th. Images thanks to Johnny Louis /WENN.com .