Athletic & healthy-looking Hayden Panettiere (who barely has ny cellulite) recently did an interview with the online magazine A Girl�s World, where she talked about being a role model with cellulite:
AGW: There is so much pressure on young female stars like yourself to look or be �perfect�. How do you handle that?
Hayden: I can�t tell you how many times I�ve thanked God and my parents for raising me in a place that was so humbling and so outside any of that stuff. I mean I live criticism every day. I�d go walk my dogs and I used to walk them in my PJ�s and now I have to make sure I look half decent or else I�ll get trashed. Or like having cellulite on the back of your legs. �I�m sorry, I�m a woman. I don�t know what you want me to tell you� [we laugh]. �I�m sorry. It�s not going to go away. I can�t do anything about it. I apologize if I offended you�.
AGW: Cellulite, the equal opportunity curse! But, you seem to be surviving the pressure�
Hayden: I think I came into it when Paris and Lindsay and all these girls were at their height of what they were doing and I would say it�s guilty by association. If you are a young female in Hollywood, you are guilty of everything that people say. People feel that they have a right to judge you and they haven�t even had a conversation with you and it�s scary. I have a body that girls can look at and go, �oh she�s not anorexically skinny. She looks healthy and she�s got cellulite, yeah!�
AGW: (by now we�re thinking about our own cellulite. Thank God we�re wearing long pants). Does this �role model� label drive you nuts then?
Hayden: I think the only problem with attempting to be a role model is the fact that you just want to go, �okay, I�ll be a role model for you. I�d love to, but don�t expect me to be perfect because I�m not and I do screw up and I do make mistakes and I can�t always think of everyone else and what they�re going to say�. Because at the end of the day the only person you can make happy is yourself. No matter whether it�s wrong or right or looks good or looks bad, somebody will hate it. Somebody will.
