Sarah Michelle Gellar Posts Lovable Selfie of Her 6-Yr-Outdated Self to Have fun forty eighth Birthday

Sarah Michelle Gellar is giving her youthful self a hug at the moment.

Gellar, 48, shared a candy childhood photograph of herself at 6 years outdated, sporting a floral costume and gold paper crown, in honor of her birthday. The Buffy The Vampire Slayer star captioned the photograph on Instagram, “At this time I’m channeling this birthday queen … fortunately it’s me!!!”

A number of celebrities commented with birthday needs. Gellar’s former Buffy costar, David Boreanaz, who starred as Angel within the hit teen supernatural present, wrote “Blissful Birthday ❤️.”

“Ah!! Blissful Birthday Sarah, you’re certainly a 👸!!!👏❤️🙌,” Rachel Leigh Prepare dinner, who costarred within the 1999 romantic comedy She’s All That reverse Gellar’s husband, Freddie Prinze Jr., wrote. Gellar and Prinze Jr. share two youngsters, daughter Charlotte, 15, and son Rocky, 12.

Brenda Track, who just lately starred within the Netflix sequence Operating Level, wrote “Blissful birthday, Sarah!!!”

Gellar’s buddies and former costars additionally shared Instagram Story posts in her honor. Jason Behr, who visitor starred on Buffy and later costarred with Gellar within the 2004 movie The Grudge, shared throwback photographs from their time in Japan.

“Blissful birthday @sarahmgellar. Hey…wanna return to Tokyo quickly?” Behr wrote. Gellar reposted his birthday want, responding with “sure please.”

Fellow Buffy costar Emma Caulfield, who performed demon Anya Jenkins on the hit WB present, shared a photograph with Gellar to her Instagram Story, writing, “All people loves Sarah. It is her birthday! love you mama. @sarahmgellar.”

In an unique interview with PEOPLE in March, Gellar spoke on her ever-evolving private model within the years past Buffy.

“I feel that there was a time after I anxious a lot about what was stylish and what folks would consider how I appeared in it, and I feel now, I am extra invested in myself and eager to attempt issues which might be totally different,” Gellar informed PEOPLE. “And I feel it has been profitable for me currently.”

Exterior of performing, Gellar hopes to increase upon her style sense. She attended Paris Style Week for the primary time in 2025.

“I have been going outdoors of my consolation zones, which is uncommon, I feel, at my age,” she continued. “However I do not know, possibly there’s a confidence that comes with age?”

Gellar starred in Buffy from 1997 to 2003. The present made waves for its empowering undertones, giving approach to the younger grownup vampire style of media that later made a resurgence within the mid-2000s. Gellar is predicted to play Buffy once more in an upcoming revival for Hulu.

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It stays unclear which different Buffy stars will reunite within the revival. The unique lineup of producers, together with Dolly Parton, who was uncredited within the Nineties however participated by her firm Sandollar Leisure, is ready to return. The reboot shall be directed by Oscar winner Chloé Zhao.

“We have arrange our places of work, which implies issues are progressing most likely quicker than I might anticipated,” Gellar informed PEOPLE in March. “To do it the best way it must be accomplished, everybody needs to be affected person with all of us, as a result of this is not one thing that [will just happen].”