With all the fuss being kicked up about this business with Elle MacPherson using powdered rhino’s horn as a beauty supplement, it’s nice to see that some other celebrities are a little more animal-friendly. Jenna Dewan-Tatum, wife of Channing Tatum and female lead in dance-flick “Step Up”, has joined forces with animal rights group PETA to speak out about the immoral use of exotic skins in fashion. She stripped off, covered herself in scaly body paint and lazed around sultrily on a branch in a PETA photoshoot that aimed to highlight the cruelty to animals such as snakes and crocodiles for the sake of fashion.

Jenna was reputed to have burst into tears after watching video footage of alligators being used for their skins. She said on the matter: “In the video, there’s this part where they have baby alligators and they club them over the head, and they’re not even dead, and they start to skin them. You can see them writhing in pain and that was awful for me (to see). I couldn’t believe that is what happens for a wallet or a purse.”

She continued, “You see this video and you see the horrendous things that are happening and you can’t be ignorant about it anymore. There’s faux alligator, python, snakeskin – there’s a lot of different things to find, you just have to ask.” Maybe all of us should be a little more conscientious when shopping for a new handbag.