News | Entertainment
3 Jul 2025 7:50
NZCity News
NZCity CalculatorReturn to NZCity

  • Start Page
  • Personalise
  • Sport
  • Weather
  • Finance
  • Shopping
  • Jobs
  • Horoscopes
  • Lotto Results
  • Photo Gallery
  • Site Gallery
  • TVNow
  • Dating
  • SearchNZ
  • NZSearch
  • Crime.co.nz
  • RugbyLeague
  • Make Home
  • About NZCity
  • Contact NZCity
  • Your Privacy
  • Advertising
  • Login
  • Join for Free

  •   Home > News > Entertainment

    Stella McCartney is grateful to have been raised by parents who were "change agents" who taught her to be environmentally conscious

    The British fashion designer is the daughter of Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney and his late wife Linda McCartney, both of whom adopted vegetarianism in the 1970s and made sure they instilled a love of nature and animals in their child and her siblings, Heather, Mary and James


    Linda - who passed away from breast cancer in 1998 at the age of 56 - was also an animal rights activist and launched her own vegetarian food range which is still available now.

    Stella had a very happy childhood on her family's farm and she has tried to replicate that lifestyle for her and her husband Alasdhair Willis' own kids, Miller, 14, Bailey, 12, Beckett, 11, and Reiley, nine, at their Georgian manor house in Gloucestershire, South West England, where they can enjoy the outdoors and indulge in activities such as horse riding.

    Speaking in the January 2020 issue of Vogue US magazine - of which she is a cover star - she said: "I was privileged. I grew up on an organic farm; I saw the seasons. My parents were vegetarians - they were change agents."

    Explaining why her country home is so important to her and her family, she added: "It was a desperate mission to find land so that I could ride my horse.

    "Being out in a beautiful garden is nicer than sitting in a beautiful room ... You know what I was doing the other weekend? I was riding my horse barefoot and bareback, with my daughter [Reiley]. It was about as good as it gets."

    Stella and Alasdhair have spent the past 15 years changing their home and its grounds into a "redbrick box within a garden within a garden within a garden" and it even has its own off-the-grid sewage system disguised as a series of reed-filled ponds.

    Boasting about having her own private sewage system, the 48-year-old fashionista joked: "See? Being an environmentalist can be sexy!"

    © 2025 Bang Showbiz, NZCity

     Other Entertainment News
     03 Jul: Juliet Stevenson paints to switch off her brain
     03 Jul: Queen Latifah's first paycheque was "87 bucks" from Burger King
     03 Jul: Jessie J is still awaiting the results of her recent surgery
     03 Jul: Sean 'Diddy' Combs' attorney claims that allegations against the rapper have been "badly exaggerated"
     02 Jul: Sir Rod Stewart came close to cancelling his Glastonbury performance
     02 Jul: Teddy Swims has become a dad
     02 Jul: Charlize Theron is on the celebrity dating app Raya - but it hasn't helped her to find love
     Top Stories

    RUGBY RUGBY
    The Junior Tall Blacks have advanced to the last eight of the under-19 basketball World Cup for the first time More...


    BUSINESS BUSINESS
    Prices for top-end butter are through the roof, with little recourse for shoppers More...



     Today's News

    Law and Order:
    Police are still piecing together what happened to a newborn baby, found dead in a wheelie bin in Auckland on Tuesday night 7:47

    Environment:
    People are already leaving their homes at the top of the South Island, as the flood-hit region faces another round of heavy rain 7:47

    Law and Order:
    Sean "Diddy" Combs has been found not guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking, but convicted of a less serious prostitution charge 7:37

    Entertainment:
    Juliet Stevenson paints to switch off her brain 7:36

    Cycling:
    Laurence Pithie's about to enter the pinnacle of professional cycling 7:27

    Law and Order:
    Sean 'Diddy' Combs found not guilty of sex trafficking and racketeering but guilty of transport for prostitution 7:27

    International:
    Paramount settles legal battle with Donald Trump over Kamala Harris interview 7:27

    Basketball:
    The Junior Tall Blacks have advanced to the last eight of the under-19 basketball World Cup for the first time 7:17

    Entertainment:
    Queen Latifah's first paycheque was "87 bucks" from Burger King 7:06

    Environment:
    Some parts of the country are bracing for more heavy weather, less than a week on from severe flooding 6:57


     News Search






    Power Search


    © 2025 New Zealand City Ltd