Alicia Silverstone will forever be known as a '90s icon.
Audiences first fell in love with her when she starred as Cher in Clueless. This might come as a surprise to some fans, but Alicia couldn't be farther from Cher.
She's vegan in real life and she's — gasp! — not into fashion. Come learn these 10+ facts fans didn't know.
And although we love the movie, there are a ton of things about Silverstone that fans don't know!
Luckily, we are here to help you out with the following fun facts. Let us know your fave at the end!
She didn't have it served up in steak-form like other celeb moms.
Instead, as she revealed in her book, Kind Mama_, someone gifted it to her in pill-form. She wrote that she "really loved it."
“I got to the point that my husband said, ‘Did you have your happy pills today?' And I was really sad when they were gone. It really helped me.”
She really is one with nature.
She told Health magazine that when the temperatures go up, the clothes come off.
"And then I would jump in the pool and swim, and I always get in the pool naked.”
It was the role that made her a star, but this was too much for her.
“It was really just extreme how I was being talked to and talked about,” she told The Guardian. “I think I just got really turned off by it.”
Before she was Cher Horowitz, she tossed around pom-poms at San Mateo High School in California.
Just look at that smile and blonde hair! She definitely looked the part. Let's just hope she had the pep, too.
She starred in The Crush as a young girl who developed a fatal attraction on a much older man.
Surprisingly, she connected to the role. “I felt so connected to the material for some reason."
She adopted this way of eating when she was 21 and has since released a vegan cookbook. She's even raising her nine-year-old son, Bear, as a vegan.
The decision to do so may be controversial, but Alicia has credited veganism for his good behavior.
“I can just say ‘no, thank you’ and we respect each other and listen to each other. So much of that is because he’s not … a lot of it is the parenting, but a lot of it is the food. When your kid feels good, they act well.”
In addition to being vegan, the actress often shares tips with her followers on living a more sustainable lifestyle.
"Avoid single-use plastics by using a reusable water bottle, straw, cutlery, containers and shopping bags," she once urged them on Instagram.
Her performance in Aerosmith's "Crazy" music video is even what landed her the role of Cher in Clueless!
"Her performance in the video — I believed everything. I just went crazy for her," the director told Interview Magazine.
They originally thought that she meant Liv Tyler, Steven's daughter.
"Meanwhile my friend, the casting director, was saying 'You've got to see the girl in 'The Crush.' Well, it's the same girl."
She told The Guardian that she constantly had ulcers, which made eating certain foods difficult.
She would ask her driver to get her frozen yogurt, since it was all she could eat.
This was so she could work as an actress without age limitations.
When she was filming The Crush — her first role — she even lived in an apartment in Vancouver by herself at 15.
“I think I probably missed some emotional steps that needed to happen in a normal situation of development,” she said.
“But I also jumped light years ahead in other ways. It’s sort of a combo platter. You gain some and you lose some.”
This is a big one... She was given Cher's wardrobe and then GAVE IT ALL AWAY.
The reason for the insanity? She told Entertainment Weekly that she didn't "get fashion" at the time.
"And I just didn’t get it until I saw the movie and I was like, “Oh I get it! The costumes are the star of the movie!”
sigh
She played Batgirl in the film.
At the time, the tabloids called her "Fatgirl" and paparazzi would even chant it as they chased her for photos.
This level of body-shaming caused the actress to resent acting.
“I stopped loving acting for a very long time." Thankfully, a role in a David Mamet play turned that around.
She split with her husband of two decades, Christopher Jarecki, in 2018.
The transition hasn't always been easy.
"You don't ever think you'll be apart when you get married. All I can really say is that we'll co-parent Bear together, and this is completely a good thing for both of us," she told Redbook Magazine.
And while she admitted that it was scary because she was so young, she also knows that it meant that the director of the film trusted her.
So really, it all worked out for the best.
"There were some girls in my life who were extremely materialistic. I grew up with a mom who was so practical and absolutely loathed extravagance. She had a real distaste for materialism and all that came with that kind of behavior, so I would notice that quality in people I grew up with."
"Like when she takes Tai around the school pointing out the different social circles."
Because her character completely went off the rails. It was fun for her to play and explore, and it was certainly out of left field, considering the other characters she has played!
Before she had a child, she revealed that the only reason why she hadn't written one was because she felt people wouldn't respond well.
She thought it would be better received when she had a child of her own.
After all, health is about more than working out! You have to eat well to feel good in your body.
Silverstone has admitted that she has been able to hone in on her desires and needs thanks to the food she eats.
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