Yeah Michelle smokes. Why?
The constant, enormous pressure on young actresses to stay thin and alarmingly thin at all times. Michelle isn’t 16 any more, and is not a gym rat and freak dieter so like Sarah Michelle Gellar, and a lot of other actresses uses tobacco to keep the weight off. Nick Brendan, James Marsters, and Amber Benson also smoke and have tried at various times to quit (I think James beat it). It’s endemic to Hollywood and worse of course for actresses.
Michelle looks BETTER IMHO with a few more pounds on, but when Scarlett Johanssen calls herself "fat" on Leno Hollywood has a problem.
I hope Michelle’s fans will allow her to no longer be Dawn and eternally 16, and hopefully just quit smoking. If Michelle has ever entertained you, made you laugh or amused you, you’ll hope she can ditch that habit and move into more mature roles where people don’t expect her to be some skinny teenager.
I hope she can beat this smoking deal which stems from Hollywood wanting her to be always 16, and I think she will. I’ve been entertained by Michelle a lot (her characters are always funny and intelligent) so I wish her the best.