Usmagazine.com | PETA Targets Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in New Campaign, Calls Them the "Trollsen Twins"

PETA Targets Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in New Campaign, Calls Them the "Trollsen Twins"
Tuesday December 11, 2007

Courtesy of PETA

Move over, Jennifer Lopez.

PETA has a new target.

Well, two targets: Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.

In a new ad campaign to be unveiled today at the Olsens' Walk of Fame star on Hollywood Boulevard, PETA blasts the 21-year-old star sibs — whom they dub the "Trollsen Twins — for wearing fur and including it in their collections Elizabeth and James and The Row.

"Thin-twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are about to get some publicity that will have them running away faster than if they'd spotted a calorie," the group said in a snarky statement today.

The new ad features the twins above the headline "Fur Is Worn by Beautiful Animals and Ugly People."

To coincide with the ad, PETA has also launched a new web site devoted to "Hairy-Kate" and "Trashley."

It features, among other things, a mash-up video called "Full House of Horrors," in which footage from the twins' former hit TV show is interspersed with – you guessed it – scenes of animals being killed for fur.

"No one would argue that Mary-Kate and Ashley could use some meat on their bones, but the last thing they need is hair on their backs," PETA's Assistant Director of Youth Campaigns Dan Shannon said in a statement.

See how the group ambushed Beyonce here.

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Posted by Alissa R at 11:37 am ET Permanent Link | 319 Comments
Categories: Ashley Olsen | Mary-Kate Olsen | PETA

319 Comments

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8:00 PM alli Says:

ok first of all, well said matty.I used to look up to these girls and now I'm so proud I'm not like them.They are very blind and only care about what they look like rather then what those poor animals go through so they can have that fur to wear.I blaim asians for this though.They're the ones that skin these animals ='(

5:13 AM Anonymous Says:

I don't buy FUR but i love my STEAK!!!!

12:11 AM matty ligz (fcuk you all, go PETA!) Says:

your all stupid a$$holes !

PETA does not support criminals, the only reason their criminals is because they were protesting and the goverment calls this terrorism so its not their fault they fight for the rights of defensless animals.