Mischa Barton Looks Slightly Different
February 5, 2010 in Body Type and Clothes, Mischa Barton by Versus
This is not a Before & After!
Left: Mischa Barton 4 days ago.
Right: Mischa yesterday. The pictures are 3 days apart.
Yes, Mischa’s figure can look significantly different, depending on what she’s wearing (heels make a lot of difference), angle of the pictures and her position. Today’s lesson 
: not to jump at conclusions when anaylzing someone’s weight – clothes and extra factors (colors, backgrounds, sunlight, posture and much more) are super relevant.
See some more from these 2 occasions after the jump!
all the celebrities tend to lose weight,she’s the only one who gains!!!how is it possible to be only 4 days after the right photo?!looks like 10 kilos heavier than the adorable “left” mischa barton!
In 3 days, you can not possibly gain more than 4 pounds (and that is if you eat like CRAZY) … so it is the clothes.
Oh, that’s definitely not true! I’m guessing that she fasted right before the red carpet photo…and then ate a ton afterwards, and so probably gained a lot of water weight.
But the weight would go to her waist, not her thighs.
That’s not a fact. People’s bodies carry weight in different places. Some may puff up immediately in the face, some in the thighs, some in the tummy, some even on the arms.
People carry “weight” in different places made up from fat.. Yes.
People carry “weight” in different places made up from water.. No.
Water weight is what causes the bloat in your stomach, there is no possible way to carry water weight anywhere except for your stomach because food doesn’t go to a different place it goes to your stomach, therefore if there is a water build up, it is in your stomach.
Its not even physically possible to put on THAT much weight in 4 days, she would have to be eating like a horse
even still, its more likely to be bloatedness
and the angles/clothing
she looks great in the first picture
but bloatness doesn’t show on your thighs
I think it’s just the clothes… she’s not fat at all, she has the potential to look amazing.
When I bloat, I bloat in my thighs. It sucks. I can go up 8 pounds some months right before my period.
Isn’t she a drug addict or something? Maybe because of that (or medicine) she could look bloated, contain water or just gains more weight. Isn’t that the case with cortisone? I have no idea, but she has some “problems” for sure.
I was thinkin the same thing.
or maybe bulimia, would also explain the puffy face and explain the frequent up’s and down’s with her weight.
Misha is a pear. When she is super skinny she is still a pear with hyper skinny upper half and skinny lower half. So, when she gains weight her lower half looks bigger than her upper. Keira Knightly is the same~ although she maintains her weight as a skinny pear.
A line dresses or a shirt dress/ tunic with a belt are a pear`s best friend. A mid thigh (but covering the inner thigh/ saddlebag area) or just above the knee dress/ tunic will look great on a pear. Oh and of course heels lengthen the leg and throw the hips forward creating a leaner silhouette.
A slightly longer dress with a low wedge would have done wonders.
She may be on meds that cause bloating/ weight gain- steroids, anxiety/ depression meds or it could be the old high salt/ sugar/ alcohol diet- like the freshman 5, we`ll all been there one time or another.
Fingers crossed she starts pilates and eating healthy again and maintains a healthy weight for her height.
its definitely the clothes. Even if somebody did gain 5 pounds over 3 or 4 days, it wouldnt start showing on their body until a little bit later. The being said, she has gained a little bit of weight over the last couple of months, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. It seems to me like everytime we see her get skinny there is something bad going on in her life, like drugs, alcohol, depression etc. Maybe for her gaining some weight is a sign that things are looking up a little.
Well that’s because people associate skinny with starvation/dieting.
Isn’t it possible that she’s thin, and gains weight when things are bad? A lot of people gain weight when depressed, and there are drugs that make you gain weight (marijuana most notable).
So I could make the argument that her losing some weight is a sign that things are looking up.
you’re talking about the general and I am talking about the specific. Go back and re-read my post and you will notice I was speaking about Mischa specifically, not you. I personally have noticed that when SHE gets skinny, there seems to be a lot of baggage in her life. Go back and look at pictures of her right before she was in the psychiatriac ward – she was skinny. Go back and look at pictures of her when she was arrested for drunk driving, again skinny.
All I’m saying is unless you know her personally, you don’t know her well enough to determine things like that, when the opposite could be true. And I’m also saying your assumptions seem to be based on a common bias.
I disagree with you Mia, I think Casey is actually correct.
Mischa lost a ton of weight just before early 2009 (went from a size 12 to 4 the papers said), and around then she was posting blogs about her visit to India, and she seemed happy.
A few months later she gained back nearly all the weight she had lost, and then in July she “spun out” and had to be taken to the ward.
On top of that, look at photographs from her early teens and later during her time on the OC, she was thin that entire time, and was only later (after her DUI charges) that she started to really gain weight.
I think I’ve seen the pictures of Micha on the right a while ago. Is it really 4 days? She might be wearing something similar as before, but I’ve definetly seen similar pictures at least 1-2 months ago.
I don’t think someone can look that different from one day to the next unless there’s photoshopping. And it’s not like her clothing is that much different…short dress, tights, in both. The only thing that’s different is lighting, and lighting doesn’t add or remove that much weight.
Yes, they’re new – here’s what the photo agency says:
“Actress Misha Barton attends the photocall of the New Collection of Cristian Lay in Madrid, Spain on February 1, 2010″
really? But no one can gain soo much weight in this short time.
or maybe it´s just the way she´s wearing her clothes.
Yeah it could be any of the things mentioned above …. OR it is just the fact that these are two totally different pictures. A picture can make you look 10 lbs lighter if taken from the exact right angle ( slightly from above ) which the photographers at any event do or it makes you gain 10 lbs just by taking the wrong angle ( a little from worm’s-eye view ) on purpose like most paparzzi do.
Or she just had one hell off an eating attack …. she would have needed to eat like only … 10000 cal a day or something
yea, I think it might just be the picture angles as well. Celebs learn how to pose for their body types so they do look slimmer in photos at red carpet events. I mean everything from how their feet are positioned to how they should pout their lips, and hand placement. In the right picture, she is mid-step walking around town, and a paparazzi captured this picture. She wasn’t posing with her “good angles” in mind.
wow…heels and clothing really do make a difference
hmmm interesting
anyway I love how she looks on the left 
cute outfit
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i’m very surprised by all the comments! even before reading the description i was going to say that she looks exactly the same, just unfortunatre clothes on second pic….how can someone really believe she gained 5 pounds in so little time, it’s clear!!
just think: first pic-heels + mid thigh dress not too thight on the hips/butt area but body con on the upper half = good proportions on a pear shaped body
second pic-flats, too short and thight dress, jacket that hides the slimmer area(bust) : of course she is going to look heavier, since she is exposing her bigger bottom area!!
EXACTLY!! I’m glad you posted before me…now I don’t need to write so much:)
It the clothes! Allover flower print isn’t helping either. She should do more print and embellishments on her upper half and solid dark colors on her lower half to draw the attention to her face and not her thighs.
I think she may be slightly bloated in the second pictures, but her skirt is a lot higher and I think that’s just how her legs look. They are not her best attribute, so I don’t know why she shows them off.
I think Mischa got a license to look like this.She was perfect in the OC,she dates rock stars,looks like a cool and fun girl.I prefer this fat Mischa over all the skinny hills hoes.
Just goes to show the power of a heel!
I’m sorry but she’ll never be hot again like how she was on THE OC and to be honest I don’t feel sorry for her. Maybe she would’ve looked better back then if she had gained 5-10 pounds. But she started to feel herself when the show started to get hot and thought that just because she was one of the more popular girls on the show that she could leave her and have a successful career and be the next Nicole Kidman or something! ever since The OC she’s been a hot mess just look at her. I also have my suspicions that she has a drug addiction and/or is depressed.
If she had a drug problem she would be thin.
She is suffering with mental health problems. She was in a clinic 6 months ago. It could be the drugs she is on. My sister was the same. She was skinny wee thing and when she came out she was a lot heavier. Britney is the same.
I think it’s two things:
1. The length of the dress. In the picture on the left, it ends at the heaviest/widest part of her thigh, accentuating it. The dress on the right is longer, you’ll notice (even though not by much).
2. The shoes. A little bit of heel goes a long way on a pear. Flats are terrible, and when paired with that dress length make everything look stumpy, and therefore she looks heavier.
Sorry I meant the picture on the right, it ends at the heaviest/widest part!
I always get my left/right messed up!
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This is why I NEVER wear flats. It makes me look a lot heavier, as I’m a pear shape.
I’m thinkin’ those are some super-duper-SPANX she’s got on! Either that or she water fasted for 3 days…
is she on something?
she needs to learn how to dress her shape.
Just WHOA. AMAZING. But I’m someone who gains and loses weight very easily too, so who knows.. Of course, it’s still near impossible to fluctuate THAT much. My fastest was maybe 5 kg in a few days. (a lot for me, because that’s more than a 10th of my weight!)
no, I think she’s just as heavy in both pics:
does no one notice that the first pic (and all pics of her in that dress) are taken from the side? In the god-awful second outfit, the pics are taken from the front, and Mischa has…. just not the kind of legs suited for showing off. They are thick thick thick through the thighs, no shape through the calf, and her ankles are tiny. Legs like that look okay in heels and a short(ish) skirt, but NEVER in flats and whatever you want to call that jumper thing.
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