Kristen Bell Personal life

At age 11, Kristen Bell became a vegetarian. In an interview with PETA, Kristen Bell stated, "I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with — dogs and cats, for example — from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts!" During her time in Michigan, Kristen Bell fostered animals from Michigan Humane Society and she now supports the San Diego-based Helen Woodward Animal Center. Kristen Bell often attends fund raisers for the ASPCA and other non-profit organizations dedicated to protecting animals. She owns a Welsh Corgi-Chow Chow mix named Lola, a Welsh Corgi-Chihuahua mix named Shakey, and a black Labrador Retriever named Sadie, who was 11 years old when she was rescued from Hurricane Katrina and adopted by Bell in 2005.

Kristen Bell

Kristen Bell and many of those who worked on Veronica Mars, including personal friend Ryan Hansen, are involved with the charity organization Invisible Children Inc. The goal of the organization is to create awareness regarding the plight of Northern Ugandans who are caught in the midst of a civil war between the government and Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army. Kristen Bell has also done a public service announcement for Do Something's Healthy Living Campaign.

Kristen Bell supported and campaigned for Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential election. Along with Rashida Jones, she visited college campuses in Missouri to discuss the candidates and encourage voter registration. Kristen Bell has shown her support for the Writers Guild of America in the writer's strike, appearing in the picket lines in December 2007 stating, "the writers are just looking for some fairness."

In 2007, Kristen Bell ended a five-year relationship with former fiancé Kevin Mann, and went on to date actor Dax Shepard. As of January 2010, she is engaged to Shepard. She told Complex magazine that dating "makes me want to vomit. And not out of grossness — OK, a little bit out of grossness, but just nerves." Kristen Bell explains, "I've always been a serial monogamist."

As Kristen Bell is a Detroit native, she is also an avid fan of the Detroit Red Wings hockey team.

Kristen Bell is also an avid lover of sloths. When her now fiance Shepard got her a sloth for her birthday, she broke down in tears.