15 Facts About Victoria Moran

Victoria Moran has written a number of books specializing in both spirituality and veganism.

Victoria Moran started her career as a freelance magazine writer and has gone on to publish a number of best-selling vegan books, starting in 1985 with Compassion the Ultimate Ethic, which was based on her undergraduate college thesis.

Victoria Moran began writing for music and fan magazines as a teenager in the 1960s.

Victoria Moran earned a Richter Fellowship for Foreign Study and traveled to the United Kingdom in the early 1980s to research the paper that would become her first book, Compassion the Ultimate Ethic.

Victoria Moran speaks about the physiological and spiritual aspects of eating issues that are often missed and combines the spiritual turnaround of the Twelve Steps with a vegan lifestyle.

The book at the time was seen as a unique take on food issues and Victoria Moran received accolades for her approach.

Victoria Moran featured on Oprah Winfrey's show in 1999, in a segment called "Remembering your Spirit", where she discussed the book.

Victoria Moran continued to publish in the fields of self-help and spirituality with her next book, Lit From Within, which was released in 2001.

Adair, co-author of Main Street Vegan, resigned from the show after the first few months, and Victoria Moran has stayed on as the solo host.

Victoria Moran married Patrick Moran in 1977 and their daughter, Rachael Adair, was born in 1983.

Victoria Moran's daughter Adair is a lifelong vegan, an aerialist, stunt performer, actor, and playwright, as well as an NY licensed wildlife rehabilitator and co-founder of Urban Utopia Wildlife in New York City.

Victoria Moran married William Melton in 1997, and together they wrote the script for Miss Liberty, a family feature film in pre-production about a cow who escapes from a slaughterhouse.

Victoria Moran started her vegetarian journey in 1969, sparked by an interest in yoga that began in 1967.

Victoria Moran was able to move seriously toward veganism in 1983 after experiencing sufficient recovery from her own compulsive eating to be able to make that choice.

Victoria Moran writes in cafes where she indulges her passion for tea; practices her hobby of aerial yoga, and is active in animal rights and vegan events in the NYC area.