--- title: Emmys 2017: Rachel Bloom Calls Out Gucci on Red Carpet description: When Rachel Bloom hit the Emmys 2017 red carpet she called out the fashion industry for ignoring women who don't wear sample sizes. canonical: https://time.com/4945389/rachel-bloom-emmys-dress/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-18T00:05:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:28.392Z og:title: The Unfortunate Reason Rachel Bloom Actually Had to Buy Her Emmys Gown og:description: "I am not a size zero" og:url: https://time.com/4945389/rachel-bloom-emmys-dress/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Unfortunate Reason Rachel Bloom Actually Had to Buy Her Emmys Gown twitter:description: "I am not a size zero" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Rachel Bloom Actually Paid for Her Emmys Gown: 'I Am Not a Size Zero' > Sponsored content. 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Our style experts discuss the biggest trends of the night and the stars that wore them best_ by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Sep 18, 2017 12:05 AM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Sep 18, 2017 12:05 AM UTC It looks like if you love [Rachel Bloom’s](http://time.com/4477509/rachel-bloom-saturday-night-live-audition-tape/) Emmys gown, you can have it. _The Crazy Ex-Girlfriend_ star, who is presenting at the 2017 Emmys, just revealed in an interview that she paid for her own getup. The star hit the red carpet in a strappy floor-sweeping black Gucci gown with a ruffly lace top and a sparkly bow. “I bought this dress because Gucci is not lending me a dress,” she told [E! Live Red Carpet](http://www.eonline.com/news/880681/rachel-bloom-totally-bought-her-2017-emmys-dress-because-gucci-is-not-lending-me-one). “I can resell it. I said in an interview before it is hard to get places to lend to me because I am not a size zero, but also I can afford it, so it’s okay.” This is not the first time Bloom — who has taken to Instagram to share her [pre-red carpet look in Spanx](http://time.com/4185470/crazy-ex-girlfriend-rachel-bloom-spanx-diversity-cw/) — has called out the fashion industry for being exclusionary when it comes to body type. In August, she told [Wealthsimple](http://people.com/tv/rachel-bloom-salary-exclusive/) that fashion houses hesitate to lend their wares to anyone who isn’t a size 0 or 2. “It’s getting harder and harder for me to find clothes without buying them.” she said. “That’s the whole problem with the fashion industry: My body size is literally normal and healthy but when you put me next to a model I look obese.” The dress was not cheap. In fact, it currently goes for $3,500 at Saks Fifth Avenue so she plans to sell it on the secondhand luxury site TheRealReal. “I do have an account on The RealReal. My writing partner sells all of her clothes there,” she said. “Take a look on The Real Real for this dress tomorrow.” Famous people at the Emmys aren’t always relatable for the folks at home, but Bloom is her own category. Watch the full interview below. 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