Controversial vegan blogger Freelee the Banana Girl, 40, shares her ‘insane’ daily diet with fans

Outspoken vegan blogger Freelee the Banana Girl has shared her unique daily diet, which includes half a watermelon for breakfast and vegan ice cream for lunch. 

The controversial Australian raw vegan – whose real name is Leanne Ratcliffe – shared a video of her meal times on TikTok to encourage her more than one million fans to eat less meat.

Freelee, 40, subscribes to the ‘raw until four’ diet – meaning she eats no cooked or heated food whatsoever until 4pm – and blends up to 15 bananas daily into smoothies. 

The video from September 19 has since been watched 3.8million times.

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 The controversial Australian raw vegan – whose real name is Leanne Ratcliffe – shared a video of her meal times on TikTok

Freelee starts her day by eating half a watermelon with a spoon, before cutting four ‘ice cream’ bananas off a tree on her property in Far North Queensland to snack on.

Lunch is typically ‘banana nice cream’ – a homemade dairy-free ice cream – before she polishes off some more fruit as a snack.

‘For a snack in the afternoon I had these organic Turkish figs which were really juicy, yummy. Great source of iron,’ she said. ‘I then picked a papaya from one of our trees and it was like apricot jam.’ 

Dinner will often be a coconut curry with vegetable ‘dippers’ as a side followed by a dessert of durian ice cream.

In total her meals equate to 2,700 calories – or 11,200 kilojoules – a day. 

Lunch is typically ‘banana nice cream’ – a homemade dairy-free ice cream (left) – before she polishes off some more fruit as a snack

In total her meals equate to 2,700 calories – or 11,200 kilojoules – a day

Not everyone was inspired by Freelee’s food choices, with some calling it ‘malnutrition’ and ‘way too much sugar’. 

She labels herself a ‘frugivore’ on social media, which is a word that describes animals who live off raw fruits, succulent fruit-like vegetables, roots, shoots, nuts and seeds.  

‘I’ve been eating half a melon for breakfast on and off for over 13 years and when I can, I make a point of doing it in public. Without fail, it always brings smiles and giggles and fascinated questions,’ she said in a separate post.

‘When i was eating dead animals and their secretions – not once did it spark joy in others and endless questions. If you want to feel alive then don’t make your fridge or body a graveyard for dead animals.’

 In early September Freelee celebrated her 40th birthday with her boyfriend, saying that she prefers her body today than when she was eating a meat-heavy diet

‘I just turned 40 and have been a vegan for nearly 14 years now! The best years of my life,’ the Queensland-born blonde captioned a photo of herself on Instagram 

In early September Freelee celebrated her 40th birthday with her boyfriend, saying that she prefers her body today than when she was eating a meat-heavy diet.  

‘I just turned 40 and have been a vegan for nearly 14 years now! The best years of my life,’ the Queensland-born blonde captioned a photo of herself on Instagram. 

‘I just got back excellent blood tests and the doctor said “you are in ideal shape, keep doing what you are doing”. People said I would start to breakdown after four years, 10 years… well 14 years later and I’m only improving with age.’ 

Showing off startling images comparing her 24-year-old body to her 40-year-old physique Freelee claimed she is fitter than ever before and didn’t require any ‘caffeine, excessive exercise, pills, medication or calorie restriction’ to change her body.

She claims her hair is softer, she has lost 18 kilos, has overcome hypothyroidism, doesn’t have eczema anymore and has healed the chilblains she would get on her fingers over the past decade. 

BEFORE: Showing off startling images comparing her 24-year-old body to her 40-year-old physique Freelee claimed she is fitter than ever before

AFTER: She claims her hair is softer, she has lost 18 kilos, has overcome hypothyroidism, doesn’t have eczema anymore and has healed the chilblains she would get on her fingers over the past decade

In 2018 Freelee announced she was moving off the grid to live in the South American jungle, but in the TikTok video she could be seen eating Woolworths Macro organic produce, signalling that the pair have returned Down Under. 

The vegan blogger first rose to internet notoriety after claiming to eat 51 bananas a day – although she doesn’t eat quite so many today.

She claims an extreme, low processed, low-fat, high-carb raw vegan diet – including a daily consumption of bananas – is the key to gut health and her enviable abs. 

Freelee discovered raw veganism in 2001 and often tells her legion of fans that it saved her life.