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Confined au naturel to a small tub, Real Housewives of Miami star Adriana de Moura stars in a provocative new ad for PETA that asks, “Could You Live in a Bathtub for 40 Years?” and explains that the orca Lolita has been imprisoned in a small tank at the Miami Seaquarium since she was captured from the wild in 1970.

PETAAdriana3_small_blue waterIn addition to starring in the print ad, which can be found here, de Moura—whose native Brazil has completely banned the captivity of marine mammals for entertainment—sat down for a video Q&A with PETA in which she urges her fellow parents not to take their children to marine-mammal parks such as the Seaquarium. “When you take your children to a park where an animal is being kept for years in confined quarters .… in this age, where we’re supposed to be so enlightenedequality for everybodyit’s a hypocrisy,” she says. “You’re sending a message to your children that it’s OK to dominate, it’s OK to confine.

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