Baywatch Star in Lettuce Bikini Stops Traffic

Reuters ^ | July 20 2002

[2Trievers]

BERLIN (Reuters) - Former Baywatch star and Playboy model Traci Bingham stopped traffic in Berlin by wearing a lettuce bikini to promote vegetarianism.

Bingham, who played the life-guard Jordan in the hit U.S. television series, spent more than half an hour Thursday posing for the cameras wiggling between a famous steak restaurant and Berlin's Kurfuerstendamm shopping street.

The protest was organized by the animal rights group PETA. Bingham's bikini of fake lettuce leaves carried a sign reading "Go Vegetarian!"

"I love to wear lettuce because I don't like to wear fur," said 34-year-old Bingham.

The restaurant sponsored a meat industry congress in Berlin this year. The manager asked Bingham to leave when she entered the restaurant with a crowd of reporters to order a vegetarian meal.

[2Trievers]

"I love to wear lettuce because I don't like to wear fur,"

And now I know why she dropped out of Harvard. &;-)

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Wed Jul 17, 8:44 AM ET

American actress Tracy Bingham, wearing a salad-like swimsuit, poses in Paris Wednesday July 17, 2002. Bingham, known for her role in television show Baywatch, was promoting a new advertising campaign for the PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). Poster reads: All animals are equal.(AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

[Sacajaweau]

Boy, so many opportunities for wise cracks. Bet the guys are having a good time with this. You poor guys!!

Sac

[stylin_geek]

And NOW rails against the use of female skin, because it is sexist. I kind of wonder where they would come down on this? Also, for those liberals who oppose those who use their looks for gain, (it's exploitation, you know) I would think it is obvious that again, we have a good looking person, and this is about all they have going for themselves.

[don-o]

Fake boobs are grotesque.

[Movemout]

I'll have the Bingham salad with a little French Dressing.

[decimon]

[2Trievers]

ROFLOL ... looks like cabbages to me. But I am laughing too hard to be certain! &;-)

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Former Baywatch star and Playboy model Traci Bingham poses for cameras with a bikini made of fake lettuce leaves to promote vegetarianism outside a Berlin steakhouse July 18, 2002. The 34-year old U.S. actress stopped traffic on one of Berlin's busiests shopping streets on Thursday wearing nothing but a bikini made of lettuce. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

FAKE LETTUCE! She's a fraud. I'll bet that garment was assembled in a Honduran sweatshop too. Someone should put a PI on her and catch her eating a bratwurst, frankfurter or a hamburger. This reminds me of when John Denver was living in Aspen in the 70s and beating the environmental drum until it was discovered he had an underground gas tank built on his property.

[Greg Weston]

I'll provide the frankfurter...

[metesky]

FAKE LETTUCE!

Iceberg?

[rabidralph]

Not even her hair looks real.

[Smile-n-Win]

Perhaps we should start PETP, People for the Ethical Treatment of Plants, denouncing this sort of exploitation of those poor innocent lettuces. :-O)

[2Trievers]

Where did you guys get the great photos! I looked quickly and couldn't find ANYthing. Thanks! LOL &;-)

[ovrtaxt]

And NOW rails against the use of female skin, because it is sexist. I kind of wonder where they would come down on this? Also, for those liberals who oppose those who use their looks for gain, (it's exploitation, you know) I would think it is obvious that again, we have a good looking person, and this is about all they have going for themselves.

NOW doesn't care. they didn't care about Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones, et al.Its not about women's rights, it not about eating animals, it's about government control.

[Prodigal Son]

Fake boobs are grotesque.

Agree totally.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

News Photos

[Movemout]

Hey, when you guys get old like me you won't be so damned picky!

[Smile-n-Win]

Not even her hair looks real.

Nor her eyebrows, nor her nose, nor her mouth ... the whole person looks somehow bizarre. And she looks so old and worn out. And she's so skinny her ribs show.

I'm glad I don't have to marry her!

[2Trievers]

Thanks! &;-)