It’s only been four months since electro musician and producer Moby was called out for making creepy dating claims about Natalie Portman, but he’s already back in the headlines for another bold statement.
The 54-year-old took to Instagram last night to debut his new tattoo: “VEGAN FOR LIFE” inked in thick block letters on the left side of his neck.
Moby captioned the image, “I’ve been a been a vegan for almost 32 years, so getting this tattoo seemed like a pretty safe bet. Also, working for animal rights and animal liberation is my life’s work. And to state the obvious, it’s a double entendre…thank you.”
He also thanked celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D for his new ink.
Absolutely no shade to all the vegans out there, but this feels like a very permanent way to let the world know where you stand on the use of animal products. It’s a good thing Moby isn’t likely to attend any super corporate job interviews in the near future, or our grandmothers would be quaking.
It’s not the first time Moby has made his staunch vegan status known. He owns a vegan restaurant in LA called Little Pine and in 2016, he founded the vegan music festival Circle V.
Sadly, Moby’s tattoo might not be doing him any favours. ICYMI, in his recent memoir the musician claimed actress Natalie Portman asked him out after a show in 2001. “I was a bald binge drinker and Natalie Portman was a beautiful movie star. But here she was in my dressing room, flirting with me,” he wrote.
After Moby’s memoir was released, Portman denied the claims, telling Harper’s Bazaar, “I was surprised to hear that he characterised the very short time that I knew him as dating, because my recollection is a much older man being creepy with me when I had just graduated from high school.”
“He said I was 20; I definitely wasn’t. I was a teenager. I had just turned 18. That he used this story to sell his book was very disturbing to me,” she said.
Yikes. Perhaps it’s best Moby sticks to being an expert in veganism, and not in making romantic claims.