Mischa Barton on 3/28/08, credit: Splash. The photos in question can be found on the Daily Mail’s website

Mischa Barton may have gained a scant few pounds since her character met a fateful end on The O.C., but she doesn’t have a bunch of cellulite rippling down her legs like some recent pictures show. (And the girl is gorgeous on the rare occasion when she’s dressed properly.) Mischa says through her rep that recent bikini photos of her that show dimpling cellulite are photoshopped and altered to make it out to be much worse than it is. What’s more is that the guy who took the photos has a vendetta against her, and is the paparazzo who was given a restraining order for harassing Nicole Kidman. He sounds like a real creep in these quotes from the NY Daily News:

“Those photos are doctored,” Barton’s rep, Lisa Perkins, tells us. “I’m not saying she’s perfect, nobody is. But they’ve given a 22-year-old woman the legs and bottom of an 80-year-old.”

“Look at the shots that were taken shortly before on a beach in L.A. Did she develop all that cellulite in a couple of weeks? There’s a lot you can do with Photoshopping…”

Barton’s publicist contends that Aussie photographer Jamie Fawcett - whom she calls a “parasite” - is out to make the former “O.C.” star look bad because “she called him out for taking the topless shots.”

Fawcett argues, “I wouldn’t seek to publicly embarrass her with nudity or health issues or body image issues.

“It is a shame that publications tend to highlight an issue that is not fair to a young girl. … However, sometimes these are the things that sell pictures.”

The snapper says he gave Barton fair warning that he was gunning for her when they met while she was on vacation in Australia.

“We spoke to each other on [Henning Island], and that’s when I showed her my camera,” he said. “I did warn her it was a public place, and if she wanted privacy she shouldn’t be there.”

Fawcett denied Barton’s claim that he’s some kind of pervert. “I’m not a perv, and I didn’t intentionally mean to embarrass her. I don’t just set out and start my day thinking I want to get any celebrity topless.

“I once saw Keanu Reeves dancing in the nude on a balcony with a girl and decided not to shoot them.”

[From The NY Daily News]

The paparazzi take those type of pictures because they’re worth more money. When you add a bunch of cellulite they’re even more worthwhile to a crappy rag like the Daily Mail, who makes it their business to make asinine remarks about some celebrity’s body just about every day. Barton should be able to step out onto her balcony though without being photographed. The photographer himself told her he would get her on the beach - not at her hotel.

If only Mischa would stop dressing herself and let someone else do it for her, she could highlight her natural beauty properly. It’s a shame that the one time she’s half-dressed and isn’t wearing an outfit that makes you scratch your head, someone makes her butt and thighs bigger and adds a bunch of cellulite. It’s like she’s doomed to be fug no matter what.

Former ‘OC’ actress Mischa Barton, who hasn’t had much of a career since being killed off that show, is supposed to be entering a plea agreement for her DUI bust last year. Barton was stopped last December for suspicion of DUI and the cops also found marijuana on her. Because, why just drink and drive like all those other Hollywood starlets, when you can drink, get stoned and drive?

“O.C.” wanna been Mischa Barton has decided to take a plea bargain in her DUI case — clever girl that one.

A source tells TMZ that at her court date on Thursday she’ll plead no contest to the DUI charge. In exchange, the marijuana charge will be dropped and the driving without a license rap will be reduced to an infraction.

Greasy’s ex-GF will then have to serve three years of unsupervised probation, attend an alcohol education class and pay a fine.

A source tells us this is “fairly standard” for a first-time offender like Miss Mischa, who was arrested last December, adding that she’s “learned her lesson.

[From TMZ]

“Fairly standard,” my ass! Maybe it’s “fairly standard” for Hollywood starlets, but if Mischa had been driving anywhere else in the country, she would be wearing an orange jumpsuit right now. Which might be an improvement over her regular attire. This girl is absolutely useless in my opinion- a shitty actress, not all that pretty and a horrible dresser — and that was before I remembered she actually used to date Brandon Davis. And don’t even get me started on her last ex, Cisco “Bocce Balls” Adler. As for learning her lesson, my guess is that Mischa learned the following lesson: she is not famous or talented enough to turn a DUI bust into a career boost. If it didn’t work for Lohan, it definitely will not work for her.

Mischa Barton is shown after lunch at La Scala on 3/28/08 wearing shorts and a “Bite Butts” t-shirt, thanks to Splash News.

Mischa Barton was busted driving drunk and without a license on the morning of the day after Christmas. Cops found pot in her car when she was pulled over for driving in the middle between two lanes and making a turn without signaling. She got hauled into jail and was let out later that morning on $10,000 bail. Police announced yesterday that she will face misdemeanor charges for driving without a license, DUI and marijuana possession.

Mischa Barton has been charged with driving under the influence and possession of marijuana, stemming from her arrest in December, police announced Tuesday.

The former star of The O.C. was also charged with driving without a valid license. Her arraignment on the misdemeanor charges is set for Thursday in Beverly Hills Superior Court.

[From People.com]

Mischa has since hired a driver and owned up to her actions. She told Ryan Seacrest on his morning show that “I’m 100% responsible for my actions in this case and I’m really disappointed in myself… I don’t know what to say about it, except that I’m not perfect and I just don’t ever intend to do something this stupid again.”

At least no one got hurt. She’ll probably plead guilty on Thursday and get off with probation and community service. She did it once, and it was very dumb and she could have killed someone, but she seems like she learned from it and won’t drive drunk again. If she does, that’s when they should throw the book at her. Lohan should have spent time in jail, for instance, because she did it twice and endangered a lot of people’s lives in a high speed chase and a separate accident.

Barton is shown on the set of her film Homecoming on 2/21/08.

Mischa Barton has been doing the Sundance press circuit over the last few days, promoting her movie “Assassination of a High School President” – which is actually getting some good reviews. But what she really wants you to know is that her empty-headed, party girl image is undeserved. I never knew Mischa Barton was so freakishly intelligent. According to an interview she just gave, she’s down to earth and smart. Mischa described herself as, “really academic.” And by that, it appears that she meant she has at some points in her life gone to school. She doesn’t give a single example of how she was academic, nor does she say anything that would lead a reasonable person to believe she possesses an ounce of intelligence beyond the very basics that get you through life. You know, the breathe in, breathe out, repeat thing. Not dodging in front of fast moving cars. She seems to grasp the basics that have kept our species alive, but not much else.

Mischa Barton didn’t seem so smart when she was arrested recently for suspicion of DUI. However, the star of the upcoming (and very buzzed about) “Assassination of a High School President” insists that despite her character’s mischievous ways, she was actually “academic” in her school days.

“I went to public school in New York until I was about 15, so I had a definite school experience, the whole nine yards,” the now super-blond starlet told Pop Tarts, curled up on the couch in her Uggs at Sundance.

“But I loved school, though. I was actually really academic, so I liked it … it was a lot of fun.”

[From Fox News]

School does tend to be a lot of fun when you skip most of it to film an occasional scene with a cute boy and hang out with your on-set tutor. Mischa goes on to talk about her upbringing in the film industry. Be warned, she uses the word “kinetic.” I think she most likely learned it from her Word-a-Day toilet paper.

And even though Mischa spent several seasons on the small screen as Marissa on “The O.C.,” the actress definitely seems to prefer doing films.

“I started doing film when I was 1, and I love it — it is the best experience for me,” she said. “Each film that you do — it is like a little group that you make friends with and you have that for life. When you go on a television series, it is a different thing. Of course you have it for life, but it’s a long-running show and it’s not the same kind of temporary kinetic energy that you get from a movie.”

[From Fox News]

Mischa you probably didn’t get that same “temporary kinetic energy” from your television show because you were supposedly a nightmare to deal with. You showed up late, hung-over, (sometimes still drunk…), were a total diva, refused to work with people, and generally made everyone’s lives such a living hell that they killed of your character by having her tumble off a hill in a car. Working on a film is probably a better fit for Mischa, since people only have to tolerate her for much shorter periods of time.

Picture note by Jaybird: Here’s Mischa with all of her free swag from Sundance. Splash notes: “Actress Mischa Barton has her hands full with some Sundance freebies including a Nintendo Wii Guitar Hero game and a couple of umbrellas as she makes her way through Los Angeles International Airport. Barton was attending the festival in Utah to promote her new movie ‘Assassination of a High School President.’” Images thanks to Splash Photos.

Mischa Barton and her younger sister Hania seem to be in some weird competition for who can have the most messed up life. And it’s really hard to tell who’s winning most of the time. But it seems like, more often than not, 19-year-old Hania is generally ahead. She’s reportedly been in rehab several times since her mid-teens. Mischa’s always been reported to be somewhat of a self-centered, drinking-too-much b****, but didn’t seem to truly be in the running for the “Most Messed Up Barton” until she got a DUI right after Christmas. What was left of her struggling career seemed like it would definitely end up in the toilet. But at least she had more of mom and dad’s attention right? Well it appears that a mere hours after Mischa was let out of jail, Hania overdosed on muscle relaxants. That’ll teach you to pay more attention to the older sister.

Mischa Barton’s younger sister Hania has suffered a drug overdose in an alleged suicide attempt on the same day The O.C. star was caught drink driving. Reports posted online by Perez Hilton and the National Enquirer state that Hania Barton, 19, was rushed to Los Angeles’ Ceder’s Sinai Medical Center on December 27th suffering convulsions. Gallery Gallery: Mischa Barton in pictures

A source told the National Enquirer tabloid, “The family bodyguard found her obviously overdosed on drugs, c alled her mother, and then rushed Hania to the emergency room. It was a suicide attempt, and by the time she got to hospital, Hania was absolutely hysterical.”

The Enquirer also claims mini Barton confessed to overdosing on the muscle relaxer Soma; was treated for six hours before insisting on being discharged. She was accompanied by her elder sister Mischa, who just twelve hours earlier was arrested for driving under the influence and possession of drugs.

[From News.com.au]

Mischa has recently hired two new publicists Howard along with lawyer Anthony V. Salerno, who worked with Isaiah Washington during his whole Grey’s Anatomy scandal. As part of her new PR routine, she went on Ryan Seacrest’s show this morning to talk about how bad she is.

“I got a DUI when I was back in LA,” she said the Dec. 27 incident. “I was pulled over. Obviously, I am 100 percent responsible for my actions, and I am really disappointed in myself. I am not perfect, and I don’t ever intend to do something that stupid again.”

The 21-year-old former star of The O.C. acknowledged she doesn’t have a valid license: “I usually try not to get behind the wheel.”

“It is tough when people are talking about you all the time,” she told E! News anchor Seacrest. “You just have to roll with it. I feel like I’ve got my head on my shoulders pretty good.”

[From US Weekly]

I don’t buy it for a minute, but at least she’s smart enough to hire publicists. Remember about two years ago when Britney Spears fired hers? Brit thought she could do a much better job of spinning her shenanigans than the pros. Didn’t exactly work out like she’d hoped. At least Mischa is smart enough to know she’s not that smart.

Picture note by Jaybird: Here’s Hania Barton on her way to Mr. Chows on August 5th. Header of Mischa Barton Dec. 27 the day she was arrested. Images thanks to Splash Photos.

What’s the best thing to do the day after Christmas? Get up at 4 a.m. to wrestle bargain shoppers at Target of course. Sure you had to hit that old lady with the umbrella when she grabbed that disco dancing robotic Santa that was 60% off before you did, but he ended up in your cart, so it’s all worth it. Or you could just get drunk, which is what I’m guessing 90% of our favorite starlets did. Granted most of them probably didn’t wake up at 4 a.m. to get drunk, they probably just stayed up (and drunk) the night before. Mischa Barton being the notable example of night-after-Christmas drunkenness. The “actress” was pulled over and arrested at 3 a.m. on December 26th for driving under the influence.

Sources tell Hollyscoop EXCLUSIVELY that actress Mischa Barton was arrested in the wee hours this morning! She was handcuffed and arrested at 2:46AM last night and booked at 3:10AM.

Mischa was arrested on the corner of La Cienega and Santa Monica Blvd in Los Angeles late last night in her white Range Rover for Driving Under the Influence and driving without a license.

Her bail amount is set at $10,000.

[From Hollyscoop.com]

PRInsider clarifies that Barton was arrested on December 26th. I know Christmas can be hard, but do you really need to get smashed and then drive? Every time some dumb actress (let’s be honest, more often than not it’s an under-30 actress) drinks her body weight in cosmos, I always ask the heavens why she can’t pay $20 for a cab, or call a friend, or hire a driver. After enough idiots doing this, you start to realize that they absolutely can and they absolutely know that – they’re doing it for attention. And they get it.

A big part of me feels we shouldn’t be reporting on these stories anymore, simply because it seems to encourage these morons. There is no longer this sense of shame – you don’t see most of them issuing statements about how embarrassed and ashamed they are, while quickly being photographed doing volunteer work or rescuing puppies from sewers or anything. They just bask in the attention – especially actresses that were starting to drift towards obscurity, like Mischa Barton. I’m not even going to go through the motions of the whole “I hope you learn your lesson and get help” thing, because we all know this is probably for show. “All the other cool girls are swerving in traffic, why can’t I?” Mischa Barton, I hope you get Paris Hilton’s judge. And I hope he’s cranky.

Picture note by Jaybird: Here’s Mischa at the Save the Children’s 75th Anniversary Celebration at Lincoln Center on September 6th. Images thanks to PR Photos.

Mischa Barton has had several nip and full-blown boob slips in the fug outfits that she’s so famous for wearing. So this latest story that she flashed a nip at a children’s charity event isn’t that surprising. Her rep denies it, saying that that no one can prove with a picture, but there are pictures of her nips hanging out that night, and there are multiple other pictures of Mischa flashing her assets. In May, 2006 she wore a dress with a see-through panel over her boobs so they were clearly visible. About a year later she wore a loose lacy top that was cut down to her navel and fell open to reveal her full left boob, with Mischa smiling and looking all too aware of what was happening.

Mischa Barton shocked guests at a children’s charity event by accidentally flashing one of her nipples.

The actress experienced her wardrobe malfunction at the Save the Children event at New York’s Lincoln Centre - where guests included former US President George Bush Sr - last Thursday night.

One onlooker said: “Mischa was wearing a sparkly yellow dress and one of her nipples was blatantly showing! It was so not appropriate for Save the Children.”

A representative for the 21-year-old actress denies she bared her boob, saying: “It didn’t happen, because if it did, there would be a photo.”

[From Stuff.co.nz]

Mischa Barton is moving along at a decent pace with her career. IMDB has her appearing in 4 movies yet to come out this year, and another 3 next year. She was just announced as joining the cast of a thriller, Walled In, which will begin shooting in Canada in late October.

Here are pictures of Mischa on the night in question in a typically ugly sparkly dress. You can see the tops of her nips through the top, so it’s not that much of a stretch to think that her dress sagged at some point that night and revealed the whole thing.

Thanks to Splash News for the first two pictures. The others from that night are from PRPhotos, and the last images are of Mischa’s earlier boob slips, thanks to WWTDD and The Bastardly.

Mischa Barton and Paris Hilton had a very public spat last year, with Mischa saying that Paris “seems to hate everyone around her age who is more successful. Silly bitch - she does steal people’s boyfriends.” Paris retorted saying she “didn’t even know” Mischa and that “she is the one who is trying to stir up a rivalry. I have never said a word about her… but she seems to be spending a lot of time thinking about me.”

In return, Paris’ mouthpiece, Elliot Mintz said that “a lot of celebrities are using Paris’ name so they can get some ink and Mischa seems to be one of them.”

Mischa then dismissed the stealing boyfriends remark, said it was a joke and said “Paris isn’t my rival. I met her one or two times and she’s making out there’s this big rivalry between us and there so isn’t.” [Details from People.com]

Mischa’s then-boyfriend brought it home by saying “Has Paris nothing better to do? At least Misch has a job - she’s a respected actress.”

So these two haven’t had much love for each other since February, 2006 when it all started. Paris wants to mend fences with Mischa now and recently reached out to her, bitching about how all her other girlfriends suck, but Mischa wasn’t having it:

Paris Hilton - playing her “New Paris” role to the hilt - phoned ex-BFF Mischa Barton, cooing about mending their prickly relationship - and gushing that of all her frenemies, she missed the ex-”O.C.” star the most! Said a source: “Paris then went into a rant about the mess Nichole Richie’s made of her life, how Britney Spears snubbed her - and that Lindsay Lohan’s white trash and destined to be dead soon.” Soured by Paris’s poison tongue, Mischa blew off an invite for a just-us-girlies-get-together… and hung up abruptly. Just days later… you guess it!… Mischa heard Paris was slamming her as “a jealous witch!” Mee-Ow!

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, Mike Walker's column, September 10, 2007]

Of all the young Hollywood crowd, Mischa seems to have her life most together, and that’s smart of her not to fall for Paris’ bullshit. Maybe she should have put up with Paris for a little while though if only to get some much-needed fashion advice. The poor girl is gorgeous but she looks like total shit most of the time due to her poor outfit choices. For everything you can say about Paris, she looks well put together and works it. Being a good person and looking good require completely different skillsets.

Paris Hilton is shown on 9/1 at the Play For Good Foundation Gala in Mallorca, Spain. Mischa Barton is shown on 8/6 at the Paper Magazine party for Rihanna in NY. Thanks to PRPhotos.

A new article in Vanity Fair features profiles and interviews with some of the guys made famous for dating the tabloid darlings - Paris, Nicole, Britney, Lohan and Mischa. Their small Hollywood circle of debauchery and wasted opportunity is frequently referred to as a high school clique, in which Paris serves as the unofficial head Heather.

Titled “I’m With Her,” the article isn’t about the celebrities’ boyfriends so much as a recap of the shenanigans that we’ve publicly witnessed in the last few event-filled months. Not much was news to me, but it was fun to read a somewhat scholarly take on the fast pace of gossip.

The author, Nancy Jo Sales, details the way that dating a star can skyrocket a guy to fame - with a cost. The guys become known for banging the stars and not for their own maybe-talent. We all know what people said about kept man crap-rapper K-Fed, but he did seem to deserve the jokes at his expense, and he’s recovered nicely now that Britney’s gone down the shitter.

Cisco Adler, Mischa Barton’s goofy looking big-balled ex, is interviewed and comes off as a rather level-headed guy who isn’t too affected by all the talk about him. He says that he didn’t date Mischa because she was famous, and that he was just awed by her beauty. Cisco tells a sweet story about how he used to look at Mischa when she woke up in the morning. He says that his relationship with Mischa was the first time he didn’t cheat on a girlfriend, and that it was all the external factors that go along with fame that broke them up. Cisco also uses the old “they’re young and it’s hard to deal with fame” excuse to explain LohitneyParis’ bad behavior. His ex, Mischa Barton, doesn’t seem to have followed suit, though:

“I’m not some serial star-dater,” he protests. “Mischa’s the most beautiful girl on the planet. Sometimes I would wake up and see her on the pillow next to me and be like, Oooh, there she is …

“It wasn’t us that broke us up, it was all the other shit…”

Cisco says, “Look, they’re young, these girls, and they’re thrown this bucket of shit, and it makes them act kind of weird. If they were all locked in a room together they’d come out the best of friends.”

“Really?” I ask.

“Well maybe,” he says, “if they lived.”

It isn’t easy being a boyfriend of one of these much-sought-after starlets, Cisco says. “There’s no privacy. We were literally running away from paparazzi. They would camp outside my house.” When he’d finally had enough, he ended it, he says. “My dog died of pet-food poisoning, I broke up with my girlfriend, and this picture of my balls turns up on the Internet—that was the cherry on top.” Or maybe cherries.

He wistfully admits he misses Mischa. “I used to be a horrible cheater; in this last relationship I didn’t cheat once, I changed. Sometimes I used to cheat and go back and make love with my girlfriend on the same day! I used to get off on that. I used to think I was so dope.”

[From VanityFair.com]

Other famous boyfriends interviewed include rockers Joel Madden and Pete Wentz, who didn’t acknowledge at the time (the interview was conducted a few months ago) that he was with Ashlee Simpson. He just repeated the claim that he doesn’t think anyone is fully heterosexual or homosexual, and said he was dating a woman and that she was famous.

The interview saves the most famous star-fucker for last, K-Fed. At that point he wasn’t the standout parent in his estranged relationship with Britney, and was just emerging as less of a douchebag. They repeat the story where K-Fed was at a party and asked his next baby-momma to step up. There’s not much original printed from his phone interview, just the fact that he asserts he’s a playa:

“My moms used to call me ‘the Womanizer’ when I was younger. That says it all,” an amiable Federline tells me on the phone from his home in L.A. “I love women. I mean, I love women, you know?”

Maybe K-Fed should talk to Pete Wentz, who has a legitimate music career and is not so quick to assert his heterosexuality. Not that there’s any connection between the two, it’s just kind of jr. high when guys talk about how much they like getting laid.

Interestingly enough none of Lohan’s exes are interviewed, although many of her hookups including Pink Taco CEO Harry Morton and British reality star Calum Best are mentioned. Morton enjoyed a lot of free publicity for his food chain from his very public dalliance with Lindsay. He seems to have got the hell out of there in time to keep his sanity too. That seems to be key to dating one of the three disgraces effectively.

Thanks for Vanity Fair for the header photo, taken by Lohan’s ex, director Brett Ratner, in his disco basement.

Mischa Barton has been all snotty about the fact that her character was killed off The O.C., and basically said her departure was the reason the series was cancelled.

According to IMDB, she has two movies in the can and another two planned so it seems like she should be keeping busy, even though there are plenty of photographs of her just hanging out looking fug lately.

She might have another shot at television too, as rumor has it that she’s in talks to play an intern on ER. They still air that show?

According to an insider, Mischa is in talks to join the show as a new intern.

“Misch misses being on a TV show,” her pal says. “She liked having a job to report to every day.” If the details can be worked out, Mischa, 21, could be joining the show for the season finale in February. When asked about Mischa joining ER, a rep for NBC would only say, “No comment.”

[From In Touch print edition, January 12, 2007]

I can’t believe that show is still on. Is it decent anymore, and has anyone seen it lately? Haven’t like all the main characters left? From what I can tell the ratings are doing well so people must be watching it.

They might get a new flaky doctor in training to pretty up the place in time for February sweeps. After Clooney left it was pretty much downhill for me with that show, but it seems like they keep reinventing it and unlike many of the characters it never dies.

Here’s Barton out in Beverly Hills on 2/6. Thankfully she’ll be wearing scrubs most of the time in her potential role.

Pictures from Gossip Rocks.