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Jessica Chastain and Woody Harrelson Named PETA's 2012 Sexiest Vegetarians

Exclusive! Animal-rights organization celebrates both for their meat-free lifestyles

By Marc Malkin Jun 28, 2012 4:00 PMTags
Woody Harrelson, Jessica ChastainKevin Winter, Jason Merritt/Getty Images

Where's the beef?

Not with Jessica Chastain or Woody Harrelson.

I can exclusively reveal that PETA has named the two Hollywood superstars as this year's Sexiest Vegetarians...

Chastain went meat-free 15 years ago. Her vegan diet didn't stop her from packing on about 15 pounds for her Oscar-nominated role in The Help.

"I had to be soft and curvy, so I ate a lot of soy," the ginger beauty told us last August before the film was released. "Soy helps you become curvy because it has estrogen in it. So what I would do—and this is really gross—is buy cartons of soy ice scream, microwave it and drink it. It was disgusting, [but] wait till you see my boobs in the movie."

Harrelson, who plays the alcohol-guzzlin' Haymitch Abernathy in The Hunger Games, turned vegan about 25 years ago because of health reasons.

"I used to eat burgers and steak, and I would just be knocked out afterward; I had to give it up," Harrelson, 50, said in an interview with Maxim magazine. "The first thing was dairy. I was about 24 years old and I had tons of acne and mucus. I met some random girl on a bus who told me to quit dairy and all those symptoms would go away three days later. By God she was right."

Past Sexiest Vegetarian honorees include Kristen Wigg, Russell Brand, Olivia Wilde and Carrie Underwood.