39 is young. They are saying natural causes right now.

Oddly enough, yesterday my friends and I were talking about her in Eurotrip.

https://nypost.com/2025/02/26/entertainment/michelle-trachtenberg-dead-at-39-former-gossip-girl-harriet-the-spy-star-shared-troubling-posts/

Wow. Way too young!

Sad.

I just saw her pop up on a video the other day. That's way too young. The article headline is referencing photos she shared with her looking less than healthy.

Might have to do a Buffy rewatch now.

It says she recently underwent a liver transplant

was just streaming six feet under and was wondering if that was her playing "Celeste" the spoiled singer.

Sure enough it was.

Wow 39, terrible.

Dang that is incredibly young.

liver transplant likely from alchoholism.

wonder if she was related to the George Washington University Trachtenbergs

https://tspppa.gwu.edu/

were those pics of a her looking bloated from a few years ago confirmed real?

Quincey P. Morris said:

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I just saw her pop up on a video the other day. That's way too young. The article headline is referencing photos she shared with her looking less than healthy.

Might have to do a Buffy rewatch now.

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She went viral on Twitter not that long ago when people were fawning for the simpler times of the 2000s. Crazy timing.

This scares me

RIP Harriet the Spy

I had the orange neon VHS.

J182 said:

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39 is young. They are saying natural causes right now.

Oddly enough, yesterday my friends and I were talking about her in Eurotrip.

https://nypost.com/2025/02/26/entertainment/michelle-trachtenberg-dead-at-39-former-gossip-girl-harriet-the-spy-star-shared-troubling-posts/

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How does a 39 yo die of natural causes?

So sad. I had a crush on her.

It always cracked me up how they got Matt Damon to be in that movie.
Like; who did that guy owe a favor to?

Meantime, some talk online that there may have been alcohol issues necessitating the new liver, but not confirmed.
I only raise that because when she posted a pic online a year or so ago, several people pointed out to her that she looked unwell, and one even specifically said "with your eyes being yellow you should get your liver checked". She basically told them she was perfectly healthy and to mind their own business. Which seemed like an odd response, because by then she would have been feeling symptoms presumably, or at a minimum said "yeah my eyes are yellow I should get that checked". Given that she did get a new liver, she might have come back and thanked whoever pointed it out.
But someone with an alcohol issue might have been more defensive. They knew what they were doing to their body and just didn't want to face it.
Maybe she really did just have a bad liver by chance though, I am sure most of the truth will come out regardless.

There's a fairly rare genetic condition called Alpha 1 Anti-Trypsin Deficiency that someone in my family recently found out they had unfortunately that can cause significant damage to your liver and lungs and require a liver transplant. No clue if she had it, but it causes cirrhosis of the liver regardless if you drink or not and usually people start showing signs of it between ages 20-40.

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J182 said:

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39 is young. They are saying natural causes right now.

Oddly enough, yesterday my friends and I were talking about her in Eurotrip.

https://nypost.com/2025/02/26/entertainment/michelle-trachtenberg-dead-at-39-former-gossip-girl-harriet-the-spy-star-shared-troubling-posts/

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How does a 39 yo die of natural causes?

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cancer, liver failure, basically anything that naturally happens to you (aka not being murdered or overdosing)
you graduated from college, tighten it up

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To be fair I'm pretty sure cancer or liver failure are not the same as natural causes.

If someone dies from cancer you don't typically say they died of natural causes. Same for alcoholics.

Huh, nevermind. Google tells me I'm wrong.

TIL

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J182 said:

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39 is young. They are saying natural causes right now.

Oddly enough, yesterday my friends and I were talking about her in Eurotrip.

https://nypost.com/2025/02/26/entertainment/michelle-trachtenberg-dead-at-39-former-gossip-girl-harriet-the-spy-star-shared-troubling-posts/

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How does a 39 yo die of natural causes?

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cancer, liver failure, basically anything that naturally happens to you (aka not being murdered or overdosing)
you graduated from college, tighten it up

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To be fair I'm pretty sure cancer or liver failure are not the same as natural causes.

If someone dies from cancer you don't typically say they died of natural causes. Same for alcoholics.

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They are natural causes. You can get more specific if you want, but cirrhosis and cancer are natural causes of death. It just means there was no violence or infection.