Alicia Silverstone catches up with Kind Life followers while in Sydney as campaigners slam her anti-vax stance

CLUELESS star and anti-vaxxer Alicia Silverstone organised a secret meeting of followers of her extreme views in Sydney yesterday.

Alicia Silverstone on holiday in Double Bay, Sydney. Picture: Richard Dobson

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CLUELESS star and anti-vaxxer Alicia Silverstone organised a secret meeting of followers of her extreme views in Sydney yesterday.

On holidays in Australia with musician husband Chris Jarecki and five-year-old son Bear Blu, the star of the hit 1995 teen movie made time to rendezvous with followers of her blog, The Kind Life, in Double Bay.

Premised on eco-friendly living, Silverstone’s blog posits “vaccines given to pregnant women could be correlated with autism”, that meat, sugar and dairy are “toxic” to expectant mothers and warns of chemicals in sunscreen and toothpaste.

“We are trying to organise a kind life meet-up so Alicia can connect in person with you all.

The Clueless star wanted to meet up with followers of her Kind Life blog. Picture: Richard Dobson

We’d like to keep it low key so please refrain from spreading the word, but if you have a vegan friend who you think would be interested in meeting other veg heads or want to bring your kids, that’s totally fine!” read an email.

But the covert pow-wow in Steyne Park only managed to attract eight of the 39-year-old’s followers.

She’s here with her husband and five-year-old. Picture: Richard Dobson

The Batgirl star has copped criticism for her 2014 book The Kind Mama, in which she referred to “anecdotal evidence from doctors who have gotten distressed phone calls from parents claiming their child was ‘never the same’ after receiving a vaccine”.

However, Catherine Hughes, who launched the pro-vax #babybumpjab campaign after losing her one-month-old son Riley to whooping cough last year, said the risk of not vaccinating was too high.

90’s heyday ... Alicia Silverstone in a scene from Clueless. Picture: Paramount

“I really urge women, in particular pregnant women, to chat to their health care provider, and really not pay too much attention to what a celebrity says because they have no credentials in that area,” she said.

“We launched the campaign to raise the awareness of the importance of vaccination in pregnancy, for a long time we thought vaccination began in childhood as a baby, but it actually begins in pregnancy.”

Vaccinations aren’t the only development of modern science that Silverstone challenges.

She posted a video of herself, birdlike, chewing Bear Blu’s food passing it from her mouth to her son’s in 2012, an issue that she defended in the face of criticism from medical professionals about the practice’s unhygienic nature.