Kellie Pickler Goes Vegetarian

Country star Kellie Pickler joined fellow American Idol alum Carrie Underwood as a vegetarian, Pickler told People magazine. Roughly five months ago, Pickler decided she couldn’t eat red meat anymore and made the change to eating veggies all the time.  “Most country girls do like their meat!” Pickler told People. “I used to eat steak rare all the time. I’d just throw it on the grill for two seconds, flip it over and it was done and everyone was like, ‘That’s so gross – that thing is still moving!”  Pickler attributes the change to an ad Pamela Anderson did for the organization of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, along with several videos she found searching the Internet and looking at PETA’s Web site. Upon making her decision, she knew she would need moral support to keep up the choice. She looked to friend Carrie Underwood, who is also a vegetarian.  Pickler and Underwood are part of a small group of Country stars, along with Shania Twain, who call themselves vegetarians. Pickler said she just feels better about herself now that she’s made the change. “It’s not like I’m not going to go to dinner with someone if they’re going to order chicken,” she said. “It’s just a personal thing to me and I’m not preaching about it to anyone. But I feel more healthy.”