Gee, it seems like it’s been barely nine months since the Daily Mail (and about five million websites) was slamming ex-starlet Mischa Barton for her cottage cheese thighs. Mischa took the criticism to heart, and now the offending cellulite is long gone. In fact, judging by her appearance at Paris Fashion Week, not only the cellulite but forty or fifty additional pounds of Mischa Barton has melted away. The Daily Mail was there to bitch, bitch, bitch (damn, people, give the girl a break!), but seriously, this doesn’t look good. Mischa herself claims to be comfortable with her new Karen Carpenter look:

I think it’s cooler when girls look themselves, so I don’t fuss too much about the way I look…. I think it’s important as a girl that the way you dress and the way you look are for yourself and you’re not just trying to please other people all the time.”

If Mischa’s going for a look that won’t please people, she’s definitely on the right track. Of course, for the last few years Mischa’s career has fallen into the no-man’s land between Tara Reid and Lindsay Lohan, sort of like owning prime Nevada real estate between Tonopah and Pahrump. Looking like a Peruvian mummy might be good for some shocked, concerned press coverage, but it’s possible to take “dying for publicity” a little too literally.