Mischa Barton says cellulite pics were doctored

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 t...

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