“We should not be stealing someone else’s skin for the sake of human vanity”
Maria Slough talks to vegan icon, Kay Lovelle on the future of fashion
Kay Lovelle arrived on our television screens in the autumn of 2018, as the final series of Big Brother kicked off. After 19 days — which she dedicated to highlighting a crueltyfree lifestyle, as the show’s first vegan contestant — she walked out.
In person, the actress and modelturned- vegan-fashion-advocate, is petite and stylish. She arrives at my home dressed all in black, with a silver jacket made of pineapple leaves by Altiir (altiir.com) thrown across her shoulder.
“I am living proof that anyone can be vegan,” Kay tells me with uninhibited enthusiasm. “As a child I didn’t like milk, it really did feel like it had come from sweat glands, so I turned to plant milk in my early 20’s. I was signing petitions against animal testing and considered myself as someone who cared for animals. But ironically, I was eating them and had a real fur pom-pom on a hat that I bought, simply because it reminded me of my cat. See how poisoned I was? What horrific, selective compassion!”