Hey Upper East Siders, Michelle Trachtenberg is doing just fine. Not long after fans expressed concern over the Gossip Girl alum’s appearance — specifically the seemingly yellowed whites of her eyes — she fired back at the “haters.”
Last week, Trachtenberg shared a photo with Spy Kids star Alexa PenaVega. When one fan commented that she looked “sick” and asked if she was “OK,” the actress replied, “Explain to me how I look sick. Did you lose a calendar and not realize I’m not 14. I’m 38. How sad for you to leave such a comment.”
The fan wrote back that they meant “no disrespect” by the comment, noting that it had “nothing to do” with her age.
“I just find that [you] look pale and sick,” they explained. “Sorry if I offended [you]. It was not my [intention].”
The Ice Princess star later addressed her looks in a separate Instagram post.
“I’ve received several comments recently about my appearance,” she wrote. “I have never had plastic surgery. I am happy and healthy. Check yourself haters.”
However, many of her followers still replied in the comments section, telling her that “anyone with yellow eyeballs is not well and needs to see a doctor.”
Another wrote, “Calling people haters is weird for being genuinely concerned about you. These are your fans. The only reason you have money and a platform. To call them haters is so TELLING,” while someone else said, “They were pointing out the yellow in the whites of your eyes. Has nothing to do with plastic surgery.”
Trachtenberg continued to insist that she is perfectly healthy.
“Fun fact. This is my face. Not malnutrition no problems,” she captioned another post. “Why do you have you hate? Get a calendar.”
The actress is best known for playing Buffy’s (Sarah Michelle Gellar) younger sister Dawn Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and for her recurring role as Gossip Girl‘s manipulative socialite Georgina Sparks, whom she played from 2008 to 2012.
While acting seems to have taken a back burner in Trachtenberg’s life over the last few years, she did reprise her role as Georgina in two episodes of Max‘s Gossip Girl reboot, which was canceled last year after two seasons.
