NEW YORK, September, 2000 -- Sarah Michelle Gellar, PREMIERE'S October 2000 "Cyber" issue covergirl, speaks intimately about how the internet has impacted her as a celebrity...
ON SEEING HER FACE ON ANOTHER WOMAN'S NAKED BODY: "My first reacion was, 'My hips are not that big!' " recalls Gellar, who's decided to launch her own, official website imminently. "And then I cried. I felt really violated."
ON FEARING THE UNKNOWN: "If anyone says they have my email address, or they talked to me in a chat room, it's not me. And that's one of the reasons I want to launch a Web site: I want people to know that there's an official place and that's the only place I will be," says Gellar, who claims she's never chatted online and doesn't allow her friends to email her.
ON WE-HATE-BUFFY PROPOGANDA: "It's one thing to hear people you don't know saying lies about you on the Internet, but when it comes from a disgruntled former employee...It really, really, really hurt," she says about a now-infamous site assembled by her cranky ex-stunt coordinator, who dubbed her "the spoiled Princess." Alerted to the site by Buffy-producer Joss Whedon, Gellar refuses to visit the page.
ON BEING RESILIENT: "I'm not as scared of everything as I was. I'm not as easily shaken, I'm not as stressed out. I've managed to balance things now," she says, sighing. "But it's hard. I think people sometimes forget how young I am."
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NEW YORK, September, 2000 -- Sarah Michelle Gellar, PREMIERE'S October 2000 "Cyber" issue covergirl, speaks intimately about how the internet has impacted her as a celebrity...
