Portia de Rossi

thumb|Portia de Rossi, 2007 Portia Lee James DeGeneres (born Amanda Lee Rogers, 31 January 1973; known professionally as Portia de Rossi) is an Australian actress, model, philanthropist and writer. She is married to Ellen DeGeneres. Quotes I think it’s more difficult to be vegan than gay. I think people have a harder time accepting it; people feel more uncomfortable with a vegan at their dinner table than they do a lesbian. It’s confronting. It’s kind of suggesting that what someone else is doing is bad or wrong, and it hits them on a more personal level. … If somebody is setting there eating a steak watching you eat polenta, they’re thinking that you’re trying to preach to them or you’re trying to convert them in some way. Whereas with being gay, I don’t think anyone’s concerned that that’s the agenda. “Hey, Mom, you also have to be gay. I’m gay and so should you be!” Certainly when I told her that I was vegan, it forced her to look at her habits. Interview for VegNews magazine, July/August 2011 issue. Quoted in VegetarianStar.com. I’m vegan. It’s really changed, like, my eyes, my, you know, everything. Said in her shoot for People’s most beautiful list, as quoted in "Portia de Rossi Stays Youthful with Vegan Diet", in Ecorazzi (26 April 2013) External links IMDb profile NewsWeekBlog Category:Actresses from Australia Category:LGBT people Category:Models from Australia Category:Autobiographers Category:Memoirists from Australia Category:Women authors from Australia Category:Vegetarians Category:People from Victoria Category:1973 births Category:Living people Category:University of Melbourne alumni