Alicia Silverstone, 47, is a renowned American actress and writer with a tremendous fan following. She is well-known in the social media world with over 2.8 Million followers where she posts photoshoots and gives updates about her daily life. On August 20th, 2024, Alicia posted a Tik Tok getting her followers anxious about her health after she revealed how she ingested a poisonous berry.

Silverstone’s Personal Life

Born in October 1976 to parents, Monty and Deirdre Silverstone, Alicia grew up in California, US. While her father worked in the real estate business, her mother, also known as Didi, used to be a flight attendant. Alicia is the youngest in the family with two older siblings, Kezi Silverstone, a half-sister, and her brother, David Silverstone. At the age of 6, Silverstone began her career in modeling, landing herself a few TV commercials; the most notable being Domino’s Pizza.

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After dating for eight years and being engaged for a year, Alicia Silverstone married Christopher Jarecki in June 2011. Jarecki is an American musician and coach of youth basketball. Alicia and Christopher, both animal activists rescued 4 dogs: The Pig, Sweety, Lacey, and Sampson. The couple welcomed their first kid, a son, Bear, in May 2011 but divorced after a couple of years in 2018. They lived together for 13 years and even after they parted ways, Alicia and Chris remained friendly as co-parents.

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Alicia Silverstone Is A Strong Advocate For Animal Rights

Alicia Silverstone is a huge environmental and animal activist, evident by the fact that she became vegan in 1999 when she was only 21. In 2007, the actress landed in hot waters after doing a nude photoshoot, wearing nothing but cowboy boots. The endorsement was for PETA: a non-profit organization working towards the cause of animal rights. Her passion towards this cause is so strong that she once stated she would prefer to not wear anything instead of wearing something obtained cruelly from animals. She is so affectionate towards animals that after rescuing 11 dogs, she lived with them in her Hollywood Hills home for many years which has now been converted into an eco haven.

Silverstone’s Career Highlights

The talented actress got massive fame after the launch of her first movie, The Crush in 1993 in which she played the role of Adrian, a 14-year-old daughter who had her obsession fixed on a 28-year-old reporter and gets rejected. The following year she won the MTV Movie Award in the category ‘Best Breakthrough Performance’. She was also the face of some of Aerosmith’s songs including ‘Crying, Amazing and Crazy’.

This paved her way and provided her with various acting opportunities. Her role in ‘Clueless’ and ‘Batman and Robin’ was appreciated by the audience and she began to be known as a versatile actress. This was the peak time in the career of Alicia’s life and she continued doing different movies and series with other directors namely ‘Blast from the Past’, ‘Beauty Shop’, ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’ and ‘Miss Match’ for which she was even nominated for the Golden Globe award.

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Silverstone’s work isn’t limited to only acting, theaters, and performances. She is a very successful author who has written two books which were a smashing success: ‘The Kind Diet’ and ‘The Kind Mama’. As the name suggests ‘The Kind Diet’ is a cookbook helping people to introduce themselves to delicious and healthy meals.

Silverstone’s Illness

The renowned actress made her fans worry after posting a video on TiK Tok in which she explained how she was almost poisoned after eating a berry she found on her way. However, after a few bites into it, she found the taste suspicious and didn’t swallow the entire thing. After she posed the question on her social media asking what kind of fruit it was, her viewers soon found out that she was talking about Jerusalem cherries which are poisonous to all living creatures and can even be fatal.

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According to CNN, Alicia soon updated about her health being fine via her Instagram relieving her fans.

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