20 Celebrities Who Don’t Drink Alcohol
Popping a bottle of Cristal in the club might sound good in a rap song, but not every celebrity that walks the planet earth sips $100 glasses of champagne while lying by the pool each morning. In fact, there are a number of celebs that don’t drink – ever. Perhaps they seem like the kind of people who spend their time sipping expensive wines and watching the sunset on their fabulous vacations, or maybe they play boozy addicts on their shows or in the movies, but some celebs understand that alcohol isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. They prefer the alcohol-free lifestyle that comes with not drinking; especially because it helps them stay thin, fit, healthy and focused. Some drank in the past and made the very conscious decision to stop and others never bothered with it. Both are admirable. Here is a list of 20 awesome celebs that just don’t consume alcohol.
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Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Hudson is the American Idol alum turned Oscar-winning actress with the gorgeous and amazing voice. She’s also completely sober and always has been. When she made the admission to Chelsea Handler during an interview, she almost shocked the late night host right out of her seat. She admitted that she’s never had alcohol and that she’s never had any desire to have alcohol.
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Blake Lively
The young star is currently pregnant with her first child with her husband Ryan Reynolds, but she wasn’t a drinker before she was pregnant. She admitted on numerous occasions that she’s not someone who enjoys to drink, nor has she ever had the desire to do so. She feels that being sober is better for her and her body, and she feels perfectly at ease not imbibing when the opportunity presents itself. Lively is nothing like the character she portrayed on Gossip Girl.
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Jada Pinkett Smith
Smith is one of the most gorgeous actresses in Hollywood, and she always looks beautiful. She doesn’t seem to age a day, and she credits that and her health to her lack of drinking. She said that she used to drink many years ago, but she made the decision to stop when she found herself sitting on her couch after having two bottles of wine all by herself. She said it hit her then that if she could do that without a second thought, she had an issue. She took control over that issue and stopped drinking. She’s been sober for many years.
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Jennifer Lopez
She might have a toast and sip champagne when she does it, but she puts the glass down after that sip and continues to drink water for the rest of the evening. She’s famous for saying that she doesn’t touch alcohol because she knows that it’s bad for her skin and she wants to have great skin. It’s a great concept; she’s choosing her beauty and her health over a few hours of enjoyment that one derives from consuming alcohol, and that’s pretty admirable.
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Eminem
The famous rapper might talk about alcohol in some of his music, and he might have been a big time drinker back in the day, but he has been sober for a while now. He said in an interview that it was really hard for him to go into the recording studio and sing a song the first time he had to do it sober, but that it’s a much better lifestyle for him. He’s a parent and he needs to be there for his daughter, and drinking did not allow him to do that.
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Rob Lowe
He’s one of the most famous actors in Hollywood, and he has a long career. He’s also been sober for more years than most people can count. He’s been sober almost 25 years after several years of bad behavior. He once said that rehab was something he really enjoyed. He said the problem with rehab is that too many people don’t go to rehab when they should, they go before they are ready and so the process doesn’t work for them. He wanted to become sober. He wanted to become a better person with a better image and a better relationship with his loved ones.
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Kim Cattrall
She admits to having had alcohol in the past, and she’s nothing like her Sex and the City character when it comes to consuming Cosmos. She’s been drunk in the past and she made the decision not to drink anymore. She said that consuming alcohol gives her a headache and she does not like the way she feels when she’s drunk or even drinking, so she simply does consume the stuff. Instead, she wears amazing clothes and goes shopping when she feels she needs a way to enhance her mood. They’re her drug.
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Tyra Banks
The only time the supermodel has ever had a cocktail was when she was 12-years-old, and even then she didn’t actually have a cocktail. She merely had a sip. The supermodel had too much to do in her career to become sidetracked by alcohol. She had to be on her game, gorgeous, thin and fit when she was a supermodel, and alcohol consumption makes it difficult to be all of those things. You don’t rise to the top when you are not on your “A” game, and she shows us that’s the truth.
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Bradley Cooper
Bradley Cooper might play one heck of a drunk in the Hangover movies, but he’s been completely sober since the age of 29. He once said that he made the very wise decision to stop drinking alcohol after he went to a party when he was 29 and hit his head hard on a concrete floor. The kicker was that he hit his head on purpose, the decision fueled by his alcohol consumption and lack of inhibitions. He wasn’t looking to make anymore stupid decisions when he wasn’t in the right frame of mind, so he quit drinking.
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Tobey Maguire
He’s been sober since he was 19-years-old. He went through a period before that in which he was mostly drunk all the time and in a lot of trouble. He’s been known to say that he still feels the effects of his drinking from so long ago because he still sees so many stories about himself from that time when he was drinking and they are so unflattering and embarrassing and difficult to deal with. He’s smart for realizing that’s not the person he wanted to be, and we applaud him for becoming sober.
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Kim Kardashian
She’s been known to have a sip of alcohol here and there when she’s toasting a new line or something of that nature, but she’s been very outspoken for years about the fact that she simply does not drink. She’s watched her sisters drink and get crazy, and she is not a fan. She’s often the one seen drinking water or something else non-alcoholic when the family is on vacation or when she’s out with her sisters and/or her friends. She says she doesn’t have a problem with them, but she has no desire to be the kind of person who gets crazy.
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Joe Manganiello
We might think we know a lot about the hunky actor and boyfriend of the gorgeous Sofia Vergara, but we didn’t know until recently that when he was in his 20s he actually suffered from alcohol abuse. He made the decision to stop drinking when he was in his young 20s because he felt his habit was getting in the way of his career and his success. He wanted to clean up his behavior and become a more mature person and a better role model, and he’s been sober ever since.
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Kristin Davis
She’s another of the most inspiring stars in Hollywood. The former Sex and the City actress said that when she was 22 she felt that her drinking was in the way of her career. She said she felt she was not able to perform as she was capable of doing and that she felt she was ruining her face and skin, not to mention her weight. So she stopped drinking at the age of 22 and has been sober for decades. She almost counts as someone who didn’t even drink in her life since she got sober at such an early age.
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Tim McGraw
Tim McGraw is one of the most famous men in country music, and he’s sober. He wasn’t always. He used to say he had a problem when it came to alcohol, but that he made the decision to stop drinking when he felt it began to affect his parenting skills and his life in general. He said that his decision to quit drinking ultimately came from the fact that he didn’t want his daughters to think poorly of him or look up to him when he was in that kind of place in his life.
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Eva Mendes
She hasn’t always been sober, and she did do a stint in rehab, but it helped the actress and new mom. She’s been sober many years now, and she’s in a much better place because of it. She recently welcomed her first child, a little girl, with her boyfriend Ryan Gosling, and she’s in a place that allows her to be healthy, clean and fit. She’s enjoying the sober life far more than she did the drunk lifestyle, and she appreciates that very much.
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Natalie Portman
She’s always had a bit of a good girl image, and that might be because she is a bit of a good girl. She doesn’t drink, she’s not in trouble with the law and she has never been in the midst of any celebrity scandals for making poor decisions. She’s gone to an Ivy League college and graduated with her degree and she’s been in some of the most famous movies of all time. She’s probably so successful because she doesn’t drink, which makes it easier for her to focus on the important things in life.
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Anthony Hopkins
He’s one of the creepiest men in Hollywood, but not because he’s creepy; just because of that one really famous role he had when he was a bit younger. Being so famous might mean he’s someone who drinks a lot, but it’s not the truth about him. He’s a sober actor and he’s happy for it. One of the things about his career is that he takes on very difficult roles, and it’s not possible to do the kind of job he does when he can’t focus completely; and that’s something being sober allows him to do.
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Chris Martin
He’s the lead singer of Coldplay and he’s married to Gwyneth Paltrow. He’s also dating Jennifer Lawrence, though he is separated from his wife. You may or may not have seen that bit of information in the news recently. He’s a sober singer, and it’s not easy when you’re a famous rock star that people love and you’re on the road so much. However, he’s just not a drinker and he says he has no desire to be one. He likes being the way he is right now.
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Akon
All of his music is about being drunk, but he is quick to point out in his songs that he’s not the drunk one. His friends might be, he might be out and about in a place that has drinking going on, but he’s the first singer to say he’s not the one out drinking. He’s totally sober, and you just won’t find him smoking, drinking or engaging in behavior that’s inappropriate in any manner. When was the last time you saw him in the news for something that had to do with trouble?
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Robert Downey Jr.
He is the Cinderella story as far as Hollywood sobriety goes. He was bad at one point. He was in and out of trouble with the law, of rehab and he was in a bad place. That was more than 10 years ago. He finally found himself in rehab during one of his many times there, and he decided to get clean and sober. It’s been 10 years and he’s now the highest paid actor in Hollywood, he has a lovely wife and some lovely kids, and his life is looking up since he stopped drinking. And he’s much happier for it.
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