Thursday, 10 May 2007

'Normal' Mischa: Don't Compare Me To Nicole

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Is it shaping up to be body fat calculators at dawn for Mischa Barton and Nicole Richie? In an interview with The Mail on Sunday's You magazine, the fashion-challenged former "OC" starlet, 21, kvetches over how her fat-free figure is unfairly associated with the twiggy frame of her onetime pal, 25. "I have a very fast metabolism and it is sometimes annoying when you are compared to people who are clearly not naturally that way", says Barton, who also takes pains to point out that she's "a normal weight" and is "naturally this shape". The gam-exposing actress, who has lately been the victim of cellulite-seeking, zoom lens-equipped paparazzi, then sympathetically adds, "I am sensitive to people like Nicole who have body issues but I am always pretty much the same weight". Barton's mother helpfully chimes in that Richie is more of an "acquaintance" than a friend, although the two seemed to be joined hip-to-jutting hip when Nicole briefly fell out with BFF Paris Hilton, with the two frequently posing together on the red carpet. Either way, Mischa reiterates her innate svelteness by mentioning how she neither counts calories nor feels the burn, unlike some of her peers with more pokey metabolisms. "I am active but I don't exercise, apart from walking the dogs", she explains. "And I eat pretty healthily and pretty much what I want".

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