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VEGAN IN VENICE
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Posted Mar 14 2010 @ 10:16 PM
Natalie Portman seen in Venice, CA on Mar 12 2010.
Natalie Portman catches up with some friends for a casual lunch in Venice, CA on March 12. Shielding her eyes from the sunshine that LA has been seriously lacking lately, Nat P shows off her quirky, down to earth style while strolling Abbot Kinney on the way to lunch at J's Kitchen, which for those of you in the area is a delicious little takeout spot serving up vegan and macrobiotic food that even meat-eaters can enjoy. Natalie has been a vegetarian for awhile, but converted to a full vegan lifestyle (including not wearing leather) last year after reading Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals. I'm pretty sure she's not the only celeb moved by this book – have any of you turned a few pages and felt compelled to change your diet? For her casual afternoon out, Natalie started with a checked button down (try Civil Smith's Naomi Oxford Light Button-Up in Oatmeal) tucked into indigo skinnies (can't go wrong with 7 For All Mankind's classic Skinny Rinse in Indigo), pulling her hair back in a pony with a colorful canvas bag slung over her shoulder (to nab the indie look, I like Whiting & Davis' Patchwork Messenger in Gold). Simple white sneaks complete the look, which head-to-toe is pretty much, well, simple! For an everyday look I'm definitely feeling the girl-next-door vibe. What do you readers think of her style, having you been wearing similar looks this spring? One of Nat's lunch dates was her new beau, ballet dancer and professional choreographer Benjamin Millepied. The happy new pairing met on the set of Nat's Black Swan dark dancer flick, which wrapped in NYC just before the holidays. An insider spilled the d's of their hook up to the press: "They have actually been a couple since the fall, but she wanted to see how serious it was before she started to show him off to her inner circle. She really likes him." She must like him a lot for him to ask for time off from his day job as a principal dancer for the NYC Ballet, where he is valued as "one of the biggest names in ballet choreography today." What a catch, Nat!
