Celebrity Diets: Angelina Jolie snacks on bugs like beetles and crickets
Actress Angelina Jolie spends a great deal of time traveling with her family and partner Brad Pitt — especially to third world countries. Apparently, that is why her celebrity diet consists of some pretty funny health food snacks — including bugs, beetles, and crickets.
Bragging to E! Online, the green celeb actress dished up some pretty graphic dirt about her own eating habits and those of her celebrity kids, claiming both she and they got addicted to eating crickets while the famous family toured Cambodia in Southeast Asia. There, eating bugs is an everyday way of life for people who both have and have not got a lot of money. Crickets and beetles are fried and people eat them as a delicacy; giant spiders are skewered, cooked up on a grill, and eaten like a treat.
But strange foods and weird eating habits of non-American cultures don’t bother Angie — until, that is, her own kids start compulsively bingeing on yummy but gross treats. Jolie confessed in her celebrity, “I had to actually ban the cricket eating at some point, because I was afraid they were gonna get sick from too many…”