Rachel Bilson isn't interested in finding love online. The 'O.C.' star has never used a dating app and has no plans to start now. 'No, I'm not on an app and I won't be,' she told The Post. 'I like looking at everyone else's, if my friends are on it or family members, and seeing what they're doing.'

The actress revealed that the aspect of others' online dating profiles that intrigues her the most is the choice of song. 'My main thing is, I want to see what they picked for their song. I think you create a profile and you put a song with it is what I heard,' she said. 'So that sounds to me like the most fun, is picking a song.'

Bilson once dated her 'O.C' co-star Adam Brody, who gained renewed popularity this fall as the leading man in the Netflix series 'Nobody Wants This.' On the show, Brody's character is dating a sex podcaster, played by Kristen Bell. Bilson, 43, who hosts her own podcast 'Broad Ideas,' which also explores the topic of sex, said the similarity is purely coincidental. 'No, it's definitely not based on me,' she said, laughing.

The Los Angeles native also dated 'Star Wars' actor Hayden Christensen for a decade until 2017, and shares a 10-year-old daughter with him, Briar Rose. The young girl is still undecided about whether she wants to follow in her famous parents' footsteps. 'So it's really cute. She had back-to-school night and there's a paper you fill out with what you want to be, and she said, 'I don't know yet,'' she said. 'And I'm like, 'That's great. That's healthy. That's exactly where you should be. And you'll figure it out later.'

Her daughter is also a Taylor Swift fan, and Bilson took her to the musician's Eras Tour. She admitted that she went overboard when it came to crafting the friendship bracelets that are traded at the shows. 'I went on a friendship bracelet frenzy. My whole dining room table was full of beads for months, and I couldn't stop. I just kept making bracelets,' she said. 'I didn't even get to bring them all to Taylor's concert. There are many bracelets still around our house.'

Bilson, who was one of the victims of the Bling Ring, a group of teenagers who burglarized celebrities' homes in Hollywood, said she teaches her daughter not to hold on to material possessions — a lesson she learned early on in life. The TV star lost close to $130,000 in personal items after her LA house was robbed five times in two weeks in 2009. Now, she's the face of SimpliSafe, a home security company. 'It was actually such a natural fit because unfortunately, in my life, I have dealt with burglaries and break-ins, and safety and security is so important to me, especially as a mother,' she explained to the Post. 'I don't really let her be too aware of security because I don't want it in her head that these things do happen. But as a mom, I know they do. So I do all the steps for myself and for us.'

She did not have a security system at the time her house — along with those of other notable names like Lindsay Lohan, Megan Fox and Paris Hilton — was robbed. 'I was very young and it wasn't really a thought I had in my early 20s, but I have them a lot now,' she said. Bilson, who is still based in LA, was out of town when the break-ins happened — and her mom was the first to discover something was amiss. 'She said it didn't seem like a regular break-in, because just purses and shoes and clothing were missing,' she recalled. 'I don't understand the shoe thing, because I have very small feet, so I'm not really sure who was benefiting from that.'

Years later, the 'Hart of Dixie' star got robbed a sixth time at a house she was renting. 'By that time I was like, 'Are you kidding me? Okay. Here we go again.' It was another one where it was again purses and things like that,' she said. 'So I guess my lesson is — stop collecting nice purses.'

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