Mischa Barton was one of the original IT girls of the Noughties. Along with pals Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie, the British-born star was the girl everyone wanted to be.
It was the role of Marissa Cooper in the OC that propelled Mischa - who turned 35 yesterday - to global fame. But as her star power grew, so did cruel criticism of her slender figure, with bloggers accusing her of being 'too thin' and setting a bad example for the teenage fans for the show. "I definitely have my lows about how I look," she told The Mirror in 2012. "It's annoying when there's a whole committee on, 'is she too thin, is she too fat, is she too this, is she too that?' "When my weight was making headlines i was like, 'what the f**k?' it's
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