FHM (uk) - September 2000 Article

We've heard there's a Buffy drinking game where, every time you catch a cheeky glimpse of Buffy's bra strap, you have to down a drink.

Yeah, in the first season they always made me wear tank tops. I was about 15 pounds heavier and a full cup size bigger and I wasn't going to wear tops without a bra, so you always saw the straps. I was thinking "Great, I'm adding to the drunk rate in America." But for the second season I discovered strapless bras and it ruined the whole game.

There must be hundreds of disappointed teenage boys across America craving for a peek of your bra strap. They'll have to think up something else...

Or i'll get a boob job, one of the two.

You studied streetfighting. Does that mean you're tasty with your fists?

No, it just means hand to hand fighting. I studied Tae Kwon Do and now I'm learning kick boxing and gymnastics. I can probably look after myself if somebody attacked me, I hope I would never be in the situation where I'd need to -- I carry mace for that.

In Cruel Intentions, you played a real bitch. Were you treated like that in school?

Oh yeah I grew up in New York City so I knew them all. I was an outcast in Junior High School. I was an academic and working all the time and that made me different from everyone else. They basically didn't talk to me, I had two friends and that was it. I hated it.

Were you a rebellious teenager?

I was a partier at High School, I explored when it was OK to do so. Can you imagine if I had my wild phase now - everyone would know about it.

You went to your first club at 15. Did you have to get permission from your mum?

Actually, I was probably a bit younger and no, I didn't have to sneak out of the house - my mum didn't mind as long as I did things safely. I wanted to do things safely. I wanted to see what the inside of The Limelight was like, and taste my first drink. It's not in my nature to do stupid things, I mean I have done stupid things.

What sort of stupid things?

Like you think I'm gonna let you guys put that in print?

You drive a big red Land Rover. Have you ever gone off-roading?

They have this thing in LA where you go up to the mountains and they show you how to do it, but I haven't had a Saturday off to go yet. But I read the funniest thing about my car - I was in a supermarket with my friends and they picked up a magazine and it said "Sarah Gellar has just bought her first car, but she doesn't like to drive in the rain because she's afraid it will get dirty." Can you imagine? How ridiculous is that? My car gets a lot of birthday gifts, I got a hands free kit adapter for my phone and a police radar.

So have you been stopped by the cops?

Yes, but not for speeding. I was stopped for having tinted windows, which is illegal in LA.

We get a lot of readers writing in, depressed because they are losing their hair. Do you find bald men sexy?

Oh yeah, I was talking to a friend of mine who's convinced he's going bald, and I was joking about his receding hairline. I was like, "There are lots of sexy bald men" and he was like "Name one" and I said "Telly Savalas". He didn't speak to me for two weeks. But I love guys with shaved heads, I think Bruce Willis is real sexy. I'd date a bald man, I like it when their hair comes back a little bit and you can feel the stubble on the back of their heads.

We've noticed you've got tatoos ...

Yeah, I have a Chinese symbol for integrity on my back, and one on my ankle which is a heart and a knife. I find tatoos addictive - I want to put a chain around one of my ankles. I'm not worried about scarring my body, if I dont like them when I'm older I'll get rid of them. My stunt double had to have hers removed from her arm because I don't have one there.

Last year you were voted FHM's sexiest woman in the world. Did it change your life?

It's an honour, but they obviously don't know me. They obviously don't see me first thing in the morning, before people come to fix my hair and face. It's so weird, People Magazine published their 50 Most Beautiful Women In The WOrld when we were filming Cruel Intentions and my co - star Ryan Phillipe teased me unmercifully: it was like " Oh, lets do what one of the most beautiful women in the world wants to do."