Hayden Panettiere isn't satisfied playing a Hero on television. She's evidently aspiring to be the real deal, a bona fide do-gooder, something she manifests by occasionally protesting to save the dolphins, and more frequently reiterating that she's not a tramp. Reports People:

"For God knows what reason, [the paparazzi] compare me with Lindsay Lohan!" Panettiere, 18, tells Teen magazine for its winter issue. "It's kind of become, 'All right, you guys can stay there and try knocking me off my horse.' I want to prove them wrong now…I think that, now more than ever, young girls need a good role model," she says.

And we agree! Unfortunately, we're not sure Panettiere fits the bill. Those constant Lindsay Lohan comparisons? We're just guessing, but maybe that has something to do with all that time she spent cozying up to Paris Hilton, clamoring for photographers' attention and promoting herself as a barely-legal sex object in GQ. That is, when she wasn't trying to save the world.