Leighton Meester shot to fame playing sensational socialite Blair Waldorf on the hit show “Gossip Girl.”
The role made Meester a household name, but the actor had little in common with her on-screen persona.
She did not attend an elite private school or live in luxurious digs.
She did not grow up with closets full of designer duds or minions who catered to her every whim.
She’s a lot of things I want to be."
To add to the scandal, Meester’s parents weren’t the only ones with a criminal past.
Her grandfather and aunt also did time for their roles in the drug trafficking debacle.
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“My family has a crazy history,” Meester toldMarie Claire.
“Probably the craziest I’ve heard of.”
She didn’t even attend her prom because the tickets were too costly.
In the same interview, she shared: “I couldn’t relate to kid stuff.
‘Jimmy doesn’t like me!’
I was worried we didn’t have gas money or food.
Those were my concerns.”
To prove it, she dyed her hair brown, and the rest is television history.
The mother-of-two attributes this fact largely to the stereotypes surrounding women in Hollywood.
There’s no in between," she toldRefinery 29.
Both actors have denied rumors of tension between them, but they weren’t exactly tight by all accounts.
They were friendly, but they were not friends like Serena and Blair.
Yet the second they’d be on set together, it’s as if they were."
It’s always the girls."
Whether or not those rumors were true is anyone’s guess, but Meester neither confirmed nor denied.
In real life, Leighton Meester’s musical career didn’t strike the same chord with mainstream audiences.
“Now, it really does have more meaning.
While it may have been her first album, Meester had been making music for many years.
stars, Meester wasn’t always lucky in love.
Clearly, that was before she met her now husband, Brody.
We can’t help but wonder what he did to make her change her tune.
The critic consensus determined that the movie “isn’t even bad enough to be good.”
Although the film was panned, Meester was praised by oneL.A.
But it wasn’t just the fans who were obsessed.
Meester’s mom eventually dropped her abuse claims, but the actor stood her ground.
Constance toldIn Touchthat she gave up everything to help make her daughter’s dreams of stardom come true.
I only have $26 left.”
It is also unclear as to what became of Constance Meester following the court’s decisions.
