Michelle Trachtenberg: Im not fat!

Michelle Trachtenberg, 24, is maybe best known for her roles in Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Gossip Girl. She’s seen out at events occasionally, and I remember reading some rude commentary on her weight earlier this year. She’s a gorgeous average-sized young woman in a very tiny insular community that considers anything over a size 2 fat. (Yes I got that from Jennifer Love Hewitt.)

Trachtenberg has finally spoken out about the criticism, and she tells Hollywood Life that she’s not fat. It’s not that she’s personally insulted, she explains, she just doesn’t want young girls to get the wrong message about their bodies.

We got to catch up with actress Michelle Trachtenberg at week two of the Mercedes-Benz Polo Challenge on Jul. 31 at Blue Star Jets field in Bridgehampton, where she took a break from filming Gossip Girl and openly expressed her frustration over being called fat — and considering how great the actress looked, wearing a flowing floral Rebecca Taylor maxi dress standing in the shade while attendees mingled at the SWAGG Moblie Application lounge, I don’t blame her! “Look at me,” she said while grabbing both sides of her teeny waist, “Tell me, where am I fat?”

Honestly, I couldn’t agree with her more! I’ve seen her in person at multiple events and Michelle is a thin girl with a nice figure — I think it’s ridiculous that her body is constantly under scrutiny! The down to Earth star said at the end of the day, it’s all about how it effects her fans. “It isn’t even about me, it’s about the message it sends to normal girls,” she said. “Some girl in Middle America is gonna pick up [a tabloid] and say, ‘Oh Michelle is my favorite actress and they think she’s fat, what does that say about me?’”

[From Hollywood Life]

I agree with her message, but did she have to add the part where “some girl in Middle America” says she’s her “favorite actress“? It just sounds a little haughty, but I’m looking for something else to talk about other than body issues and am prone to nitpick. Michelle looks to have lost some weight in the past few months, but she was perfectly gorgeous before. It looks like she made some bad fashion choices that didn’t flatter her as well. The average woman is a size 14 and Trachtenberg was maybe an 8 at the most earlier this year. She’s not fat, but when you line her up against her emaciated peers she does stand out as particularly lovely, healthy and normal-looking. There will probably be many more girls in middle America calling her their favorite actress now that she’s spoken out about this.

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