Every parent wants the best for their kids and that also includes making sure they maintain healthy eating habits. Making sure children are eating more vegetables and less junk food can be a challenge, so several parents have taken it upon themselves to create a more stricter food regime, even looking at celebrity parents for inspiration.
There are numerous celeb moms and dads who have adopted a healthy lifestyle and strict diet for their children since they were born. Celebrity parents are known to buy only the freshest ingredients for their families, opting for organic foods and even sticking to vegan and vegetarian diets. These ten star parents are making sure their children are only eating the best things for their bodies.
10 Mayim Bialik Raises Her Kids Vegan
The Big Bang Theory star Mayim Bialik is huge on raising her kids on a vegan diet - she's even written a book about the diet! The actress even created a YouTube video titled, "How to Raise Vegan Kids," which has Bialik explaining that it is possible to raise children on this plant-based diet.
She has also been quoted stating, "Children can thrive without eating meat and without eating dairy. The only thing that vegans can't get from the foods that we eat is vitamin B12."
9 Jennifer Garner Isn't A Junk Food Fan
Actress Jennifer Garner is a mom to three beautiful children, Violet, Samuel, and Seraphina, and has always made sure her children, who she shared with ex-husband Ben Affleck, avoid junk foods at all costs.
Garner shared with People, "I'm not worried so much about junk food, because we don’t have it in the house — although I don’t want to be a freak about it, so that they just want to get their hands on it at all costs. It's more that you just want to make sure they’re getting a rainbow of flavors and of foods."
8 Kourtney Kardashian Prefers Foods Free Of Gluten And Dairy
Fans of Kourtney Kardashian know that this mom of three is very strict when it comes to what she puts in her body, keeping up a gluten and dairy free diet. She has even instilled this in her children, Mason, Penelope, and Reign, that she share with ex-partner Scott Disick.
Quite Simply Miranda quoted her sharing, "For lunch, we usually have carrots and celery with hummus and a gluten-free rice tortilla with sliced turkey meat or turkey dogs - no bun. Dinner consists of steamed vegetables, rice or gluten-free pasta and a protein of chicken, turkey or fish."
7 Mindy Kaling Meal Preps And Loves Homemade Meals
To make sure her two children are eating right, The Office star Mindy Kaling enjoys meal prepping and cooking at home so that her kids aren't putting anything foreign in their bodies. The actress told Today.com that she even makes her own baby food.
"One of the most rewarding parts of my weekend is doing meal prep for my daughter because she's now eating foods. I never did this for myself before I had a kid," Kaling shared.
6 Julia Roberts Makes Meals From Her Organic Garden
To keep her three kids, Hazel, Phinnaeus, and Henry, only eating the freshest foods, Julia Roberts has her very own organic garden, which she sources all her ingredients from.
Roberts is actually a big fan of gardening and she even teaches her children about the food she grows. There won't be any junk food in this star's house as she has a garden full of delicious veggies and fruits that her children can go and pick themselves.
5 Gisele Bundchen And Tom Brady Have Chef's Prepare Healthy Meals
Fans all know about NFL player Tom Brady's crazy diet and it looks like he and his wife, Gisele Bundchen are teaching their three children about maintaining a strict diet like their famous dad.
According To Business Insider, the celeb parent's personal chef, Allen Campbell shared, "80 percent of what they eat is vegetables. [I buy] the freshest vegetables. If it's not organic, I don't use it," he shared, adding, "But if you just eat sugar and carbs - which a lot of people do - your body is so acidic, and that causes disease."
4 Madonna Has Her Kids On A Strict Macrobiotic Diet
According to Moms.com, Madonna's children were so unhappy with their mother's strict diet rules, they wanted to move in with their father. Madonna is known for her macrobiotic diet and has made sure her children follow it too.
Her children are reportedly not allowed to eat any salt, preservatives, sweets, chocolate, or dairy products, and can only eat clean foods. They are also not allowed to bring in any outside food!
3 Alicia Silverstone Raised Her Son Strictly Vegan
Alicia Silverstone is another celeb that is all for a plant-based diet. The actress is raising her son, Bear Blu, on a vegan diet, sharing, "Bear was grown on vegan food and we'll continue nourishing him with a healthy diet. He'll be eating an organic plant-based diet."
She added, "I intend to take great care of his precious new baby body so I'm committed to giving him nothing but the purest and most healthy food possible."
2 Kristen Bell Raises Her Children Vegetarian
Kristen Bell and her husband Dax Shepard have been raising their two children, Lincoln and Delta, on a vegetarian diet.
The Good Place actress told Parents magazine, "I do like to involve them as much as I possibly can. I also like that they are interested in the fact that I care so much about food and we can talk about that and why we eat the foods we eat, and talk about a colorful plate when I'm cutting up vegetables for a platter or a dish."
1 Gwyneth Paltrow Makes Sure Her Kids Avoid All Processed Food
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow denies that she makes her children follow a strict diet plan, but she does make sure they do everything possible to replace junk food with healthier alternatives.
The star cooks for her kids almost every night, which ensures that they aren't eating anything foreign or from the outside. She also shared, "I try to have whole foods, organic when possible. And a lot of vegetables - my daughter is vegetarian, so a lot of our meals are plant-based."