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# Rachel Bloom Actually Paid for Her Emmys Gown: 'I Am Not a Size Zero'

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## Video: Fabulous Feathers and Radiant Rainbow Gowns Dominate the 2017 Emmy Awards Red Carpet

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_Published 2017-09-18. Our style experts discuss the biggest trends of the night and the stars that wore them best_


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## 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.

The third season of Bloom’s CW show premieres on Oct. 13.

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