Olsen twins incur the wrath of PETA
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has been busy of late, worrying about fried chicken, lobsters and the like. But this week they’re worried about Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen., at right. No, it’s nothing about their tiny-ness. It’s about their fur-wearing ways.
Here’s how Us magazine reports it:
In a new ad campaign to be unveiled at the Olsens’ Walk of Fame star on Hollywood Boulevard, PETA blasts the 21-year-old star siblings — whom they dub the ‘Trollsen Twins’ — for wearing fur and including it in their collections Elizabeth and James and The Row. ‘Thin-twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are about to get some publicity that will have them running away faster than if they’d spotted a calorie,’ the group said in a snarky statement today. The new ad features the twins above the headline ‘Fur Is Worn by Beautiful Animals and Ugly People.’
Meanwhile, PETA has issued a statement on the affair, which reads in part:
‘As the Olsen twins prepare to celebrate their 22nd birthday this Friday, they’ll be getting some unusual ‘gifts’ in the mail -- locks of hair from countless young people who object to cruelty to animals.’ The hairy birthday greetings are being sent at the request of Peta2 -- the world’s largest youth animal rights organization -- which posted a ‘mission’ on its highly trafficked web site, Peta2.com, urging young people to send the fur-wearing twins snippets of their own hair along with a note that reads, ‘Please, use my hair instead of the animals’. Happy Birthday.’
Some days it doesn’t pay to be fur-wearing and famous.
-- Alice Short