Alicia Silverstone, 40, bares her peachy bum as she strips off naked for new PETA advert
The actress is very passionate about the welfare of animals
ALICIA Silverstone has stripped completely naked for a PETA advert.
The actress – best known for playing Cher in Clueless - showed off her pert derriere in order to raise awareness for the plight of animals.
In the photo, the 40-year-old stands naked in a field looking back at the camera while holding a sheep mask.
The slogan reads: "I'd rather go naked than wear wool. Wear your own skin. Let animals keep theirs.”
Her naked billboard, which was shot by photographer Brian Bowen Smith, appears just outside Times Square at the intersection of 40th Street and Eighth Avenue in New York City – so will be seen by millions of people every day.
Speaking about the shoot the star told In Style: “I was pretty shy about it, but I trusted the photographer.
“You know, you don’t see me naked in movies or TV, I don’t do that, but for the animals, it’s worth it, and hopefully that carries some weight.”
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She added: “And if I can help with informing people about what’s going on, if my butt has to be naked for them to get it, then it’s worth it.”
Discussing the issues with wool Alicia, who previously stripped naked for PETA in 2007, said: "Wool in general has not been thought about by many, many people. It's just not something that's really brought to their attention.
"The biggest thing that people always say to me is, 'Oh, but they just shear the sheep; they don't kill the sheep.' Shearing isn't like, 'Oh, let me just take your hair off because you need to give me your coat.' It's not like that."
The passionate mum of one continued: "It's like on the slaughterhouse floor where there's a conveyer belt and it's going that fast. It's just so fast, the shearing process. They're cut. They're harmed. They get very seriously wounded, and there's no care for them when they are wounded. It's just, 'Move onto the next.'
“These are not creatures to the people who are doing this; they're just objects," she says. "When the sheep are no longer useful, they're killed. So, there is no happy place that they get to go for being a wool sheep."
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