Blake, who shot to fame playing Serena van der Woodsen in Gossip Girl for six seasons, has said, in hindsight, she felt the show was too “personally compromising”. Ouch.
“People loved it, but it always felt a little personally compromising, Blake told Allure. “You want to be putting a better message out there.”
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She also explained how “the lines become blurred” and that she found it hard because viewers often confused her with her character Serena.
“It's a weird thing when people feel like they know you really well, and they don't. I would not be proud to be the person who gave someone the cocaine that made them overdose and then shot someone and slept with someone else's boyfriend.” Who would?
Blake – who dated her co-star Penn Badgley between 2008 and 2010 – also referred to the difficulty of having a on-screen/off-screen relationship, adding: “It doesn't help when everybody is dating who they're dating on the show, and you're also saying to the costume designer, 'Hey, can I take that home?'”
Well, those days are long gone now, Blake. So you can rest easy.
The actress, who’s married to Ryan Reynolds, gave birth to the couple’s first baby, James (it’s a girl, BTW) last December and now says her life is all about motherhood, telling the magazine: “I'm, like, driving down the road, pumping. [Breastfeeding is] a full time job.”
Before The Stylist Blake Lively
1 of 10Yikes white in 2008
That was definitely a bargain bin purchase at the local wedding outlet store
2 of 10Promoting Gossip Girl in 2007
That bright scraf isn't going to distract us from your macrame frock, bbz
3 of 10Another 'statement' scarf in 2007
Office worker does jazzy for evening drinks. Nope, we no likey
4 of 10Teen Choice Awards 2005
Th hair and mini dress both scream beach babe but those shoes are totally middle class mum
5 of 10Sateen dram in 2005
An orange, bias-cut, satin dress with beads down to our crotch has never been on our list of wants for some reason...
6 of 10Bashful in 2005
The 00s have a lot to answer for, stylewise. This outfit in particular...
7 of 10Going green
Even gorgeous Blake Lively can't make a baggy halterneck green onesie work. Shocker
8 of 10Beaded in 2008
Blake must have been raiding the Desperate Housewives' wardrobe back in 08. Why so many beads?!
9 of 10With hubby Ryan Reynolds in Cannes 2014
That's better! The actress now cuts the sleekest figure on any red carpet. Espesh when she's posing with handsome husband, Ryan.
10 of 10Glowing in 2014
And now she's pregnant! Blake and Ryan Reynolds are expecting their first baby. The actress looked beyond beautiful in this glittering Michael Kors rose gold number yesterday.