Allison Williams may have ditched her long locks temporarily to portray Peter Pan in upcoming Peter Pan Live!, but going short backfired on her when it came to her high school days.
"I cut off my hair twice. It was in high school, and a boy that I had a crush on said, 'You've lost your aura.' It was, to this day, the most offensive thing anyone’s ever said to me," the Girls star told Allure magazine. "And it was before extensions were everywhere, [so] I just had to muscle through it."
Now in the limelight, Brian Williams' daughter, 26, is used to people talking about her, but she said it's still weird to think people talk about her weight.
"When I did the Mad Men thing, I was graduating from college — you’re college-weight. And so when we filmed the pilot for Girls and even into that first season, I looked like someone I hadn’t looked like for four years," Williams said of her former fuller figure. "But that’s still the way it was set in people’s minds, so they’re like, ‘Oh, my God, you’ve lost weight.’ And I’m like, ‘This is just the way my body is very naturally.’ It’s a little bit stressful to know that there are a lot of people walking around who think I’m constantly just shaking and depriving myself.”
In an interview with Shape magazine in October 2013, the actress confirmed she's genetically gifted, and admitted she's "not a dieter."
"I have the palate of a 7-year-old boy, although I’m working on it," she said. "I order off the kids' menu! I’m working hard to eat more fruit and veggies and round it all out, but I’m a big pretzels and Diet Coke kind of girl."
