These Sober Celebs Are the Motivation You Need to Power Through the Rest of Dry January

The entertainment industry is soaked in booze. It’s also full of performers who have had to reckon with their own dangerous substance habits, alcohol or otherwise, over the years. But increasingly, it’s not just potential addiction and abuse scaring entertainers away from the bottle. Many celebrities are dropping their drinking rituals, temporarily or permanently, in order to maintain peak health.

It’s not hard to see why. Alcohol comes loaded with health risks that can shorten your lifespan, ranging from the more obvious (liver damage and high blood pressure) to the more subtly sinister (interfering with the brain’s activity, weakening the immune system, tanking testosterone levels). 

Vice called 2022 the year alcohol “lost its cool,” while the pandemic nudged some to rethink their drinking, and Generation Z is embracing the sober-curious movement. Gallup found that the portion of college-aged Americans who don’t drink has increased from 20 percent to 28 percent over the last decade.

Whether you’re aiming for full-time sobriety, sober-curious, or simply craving a health-revitalizing break, Dry January has become a popular means to recover from holiday indulgences and spend a month doing, well, everything you might normally do except drinking alcohol. And celebrities have been eager to join the global phenomenon this time of year. 

If you’re struggling to skip cocktail hour through the rest of the month, let these tee-total celebrities amp your motivation.