yes, and she has been for over a decade — which makes her one of the very few famous people whose answer to this has not quietly changed.
the short answer
yes. she has been vegan since 2013 and has said so consistently since, describing it as a whole-food, plant-based diet she believes makes her healthier and happier. it predates almost all of her fame, it has not lapsed publicly in the decade since, and it is one of the reasons her tour catering and her restaurant recommendations get written about at all.
since 2013, which is the unusual part
she went vegan around the release of yours truly, stating it publicly at the time in terms she has not really revised since: a full plant-based, whole-food diet, framed as a choice about health and longevity as much as about animals. the notable thing is not the diet. it is that thirteen years later the answer is still the same one, which is not true of most celebrity dietary announcements.
what she has said about why
- the animals. she has been consistent and unsubtle about this for years, and it lines up with the household of rescue dogs and the animal causes she gives to.
- how she feels. her stated framing has always been health-first rather than ascetic — that the diet is what she believes keeps her functioning at the pace the job demands.
- not as a rule for anybody else. she has never made prescriptive claims about what other people should eat, which is the part that gets her fewer headlines than the diet itself.
the touring problem
a vegan diet and an arena tour are genuinely in tension: the catering has to travel, the schedule punishes anything complicated, and a singer needs a very specific kind of fuel. the eternal sunshine tour is the first long run she has done in seven years and it is the first one where the constraint has been reported on as a logistics story rather than as a fun fact.
the bits people get wrong
two recurring errors. the first is dating it to the dangerous woman years, which is three years late — it was 2013. the second is treating it as raw or macrobiotic or one of the other regimes it gets confused with. her own description has always been ordinary whole-food plant-based eating, and she has been pictured eating perfectly normal vegan food in perfectly normal restaurants for a decade.
there is also a persistent claim that she is vegan except when touring. no statement of hers supports it, and the only thing that has ever changed publicly is where the food comes from, not what it is.
questions people ask
is ariana grande vegan?
yes, and has been since 2013. she has described it as a whole-food, plant-based diet.
when did ariana grande go vegan?
in 2013, around the release of her debut album yours truly. she has not publicly changed the answer since.
why is ariana grande vegan?
she has cited both animals and how the diet makes her feel, and has never made prescriptive claims about what other people should eat.
is ariana grande vegan while touring?
there is no statement suggesting otherwise. touring changes where the food comes from rather than what it is.