Edelstein Poses Nude in New PETA Ad

There are few better ways to get people’s attention than nudity. At least, that is PETA’s hope with their new ad campaign featuring House actress Lisa Edelstein wearing nothing but a few kale leaves. The new PETA ad shows Edelstein, who is best known for her role as Dr. Lisa Cuddy on the television drama House, laying on a bed of leafy green kale with her arms, legs, and a few leaves carefully placed to keep her tastefully covered. The tagline of the ad reads, “Eat Green to Go Green.”

At 44, Edelstein is not likely the first person people would have thought of to do a nude ad, but with a body that even a 20 year old would envy, Edelstein will not fail to turn some heads. The actress attributes her awesome body to a vegetarian diet, which she has maintained since she was 15 years old. She explained that her family’s lifestyle made vegetarianism easy. “I was never a big meat eater – I was always picky. I was raised in a kosher home, and if you're raised with a food restriction, it's not that difficult to have another kind of food restriction,” Edelstein said. The actress decided to go vegetarian after a disturbing dream and realization. “At some point, I had a dream that I was eating chicken. But in the dream, I understood that it was actually miniature human legs and arms. My brain was connecting muscle and bone to another animal. Once I had made that connection, it just wasn't something I wanted to eat.”

In her commercial for PETA, Edelstein openly supports vegetarianism and encourages others to try it at least one day a week. “Vegetarianism is a really important part of what we need to do to help out the environment…the meat industry is really toxic to the environment.” “The best thing about being a vegetarian is that I feel like what I put into my body is what I want to have in my body,” she continues. “The relationship between what I eat and how I feel is a direct link.” The commercial simply shows Edelstein answering interview questions about why she’s chosen the lifestyle she has. It encourages – in a not too in-your-face way that PETA sometimes get stereotyped with – viewers to consider making some lifestyle changes. “We just need to pull back as a culture as much as we can. Finding a way to do that for yourself in the most comfortable way is all that I would ask. And that requires a little bit of education.”