These are photos of Lea Michele from last night’s party for TV Guide. A bunch of Glee people showed up, but Lea is the one I noticed, just because of this dress. Now, it’s no secret that Lea has lost quite a lot of weight over the past few months (because she’s “vegan” now), and it’s also no secret that she’s really, really proud of her new figure, because she’s been showing it off in skimpy clothes and posing spread-eagle in men’s magazines (more on that in a second). Now – what do you think of the way Lea looks here? I actually think she’s put on a few pounds (her face doesn’t look so emaciated and drag queeny) and I like she’s covered up and almost demure. That being said, I still think it’s hilarious that she plays a teenage character. She looks about 40 years old.

Anyway, Lea was also one of the quests on Conan O’Brien’s debut show, and she discussed the GQ controversy again:

Lea Michele has said that the Glee cast were just having fun when they shot their GQ cover. The actress and her castmates Dianna Agron and Cory Monteith faced criticism earlier this year from some groups who felt the photospread in the magazine was too racy for their fanbase.

“I don’t think we ever thought it would be as big of a deal as it became,” Michele told Conan O’Brien on last night’s premiere episode of his new TBS show Conan. “We were just having fun and obviously never intended to upset or offend anybody. Our photographer Terry Richardson is such an icon [so] we were just having a good time.”

O’Brien then suggested that he could make the photographs less sexy by inserting a photograph of himself from high-school next to an image of Michele, to which she joked: “You look oddly air-brushed and pale!”

Michele also shared another story involving herself and magazines, telling the audience about her recent cover shoot for the October issue of Glamour.

“They sent me some photographs and said, ‘This is very top secret, don’t show anybody. These are just for you to see’. Then I get a call one morning that there was some sort of accident on the highway,” she explained.

O’Brien then introduced a clip that showed the truck carrying stacks of the magazine had overturned and hundreds of copies of the publication had been strewn across the road.

“What was funny was how much they drilled us not to show anybody and there it was all over the highway!” said Michele.

[From Digital Spy]

Eh. So now that the GQ controversy has been beaten like a dead horse, why doesn’t Lea address some of her other controversies? Granted, these were just controversies in my mind, but how about the time she said that her teachers never taught her anything because they were too threatened by her? How about you take that one, Lea?

Sidenote: Sela Ward was also at this TV Guide event, and I was so disturbed by her face, I felt the need to put this up:

Open note to Sela: You were a gorgeous woman, one of the most classically beautiful women in Hollywood, and you used to be the gold standard of aging gracefully and gorgeously. Why the f-ck did you f-ck with your face?!?

Photos courtesy of WENN.