Melissa McCarthy has been nominated for an academy award, and is one of the most sought-after comedic actresses in Hollywood these days.

That's why she's been able to stay positive despite a slew of hurtful rhetoric in a review from earlier this year.

In a sit-down with the New York Times yesterday, McCarthy took an unusually taciturn approach to one reviewers hateful body-shaming in a review.

Rex Reed of the New York Observer, went after McCarthy for her role in Identity Thief, co-starring Arrested Development's, Jason Bateman.

Wrote Reed of the 42-year-old Bridesmaids star, "[she's] a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success."

Reed also dismissed her "tractor-sized" and "female hippo" body, shaming the plus sized McCarthy for her figure.

But McCarthy was incredibly cool and cordial about the offending review of her movie--and perhaps more spiteful and off limits, her body--from earlier this year.

Though the comedy with Bateman didn't do well, she's starring in the buddy-cop movie, The Heat, with Sandra Bullock coming out later this month (6/28), and she sat down with the New York Times yesterday to promote the film and expound on her newly found Hollywood success.

McCarthy also addressed the insulting Reed review of her earlier film and took the high road.

Initially, McCarthy was like "Really?" and "Why would someone O.K. that?"

But then McCarthy said to the Times:

"I felt really bad for someone who is swimming in so much hate. I just thought, that's someone who's in a really bad spot, and I am in such a happy spot. I laugh my head off every day with my husband and my kids who are mooning me and singing me songs."

But she might not have been so blasé about Reed's hateful words if she were younger, telling the Times that had the review occurred in her 20's, "it may have crushed me."

Now that she's raising daughters Vivian, 6, and Georgette, 3, in "a strange epidemic of body image and body dysmorphia," she said reviews like Reed's "just add to all those younger girls, that are not in a place in their life where they can say, 'That doesn't reflect on me.'"

"That makes it more true," said McCarthy, married to actor Ben Falcone since 2005. "It means you don't actually look good enough."

McCarthy might have gone on about the Reed review, but a fire alarm sounded right at that moment during the interview, and McCarthy even joked:

"I imagine that's my publicist," she said after a quick laugh at the timing of the alarm. "The gods didn't want us discussing this."