Leighton Meester Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Leighton Marissa Meester is an American actress and singer. Meester starred as Blair Waldorf on The CW's teen drama series Gossip Girl. She has also appeared in the 2010 country drama film Country Strong, the 2011 thriller The Roommate, the 2011 romantic-comedy Monte Carlo, ...
[on her parents' criminal past] It made me realize that you can't judge anyone-especially your parents-for what they've done in their past, because people change.
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If you're just yourself, you'll never lose. I want to be myself. That's when you feel the most comfortable, that's when you have the most success, and that's when you're the most happy.
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I think the most wonderful thing about her [Audrey Hepburn] is that she set a lot of trends and they were all about being modern yet having your own kind of look because you can be stylish and trendy all you want but, at the end of the day, it's about what you feel amazing in.
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I don't want to have a friend unless I can call them one of my best friends.
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I love New York. You're never alone, but you're always on your own.
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I really came to realize -- and it's the best advice that will come out of the end of this show -- that high school is not the end, it is not the best, it is not the only. You will have a whole life afterward, if you're lucky. If you're unlucky, then the only thing you'll ever feel is how fun it is at your prom.
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I was picked on because I was a four-eyes and a dork. We didn't have a ton of money so I couldn't say, "Mom, I need to have these crazy expensive jeans." I had long tangled hair and wore hemp necklaces, baggy T-shirts and not-so-cute jeans. I mean, for crying out loud, we were just going to throw on gym clothes and run around the track! I've grown up as far as the fashion world goes, but I still identify with the high school me.
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My mom lived through a lot before I was born, and I can't judge her on that. She and my dad are good people. Look, I could've turned out a lot worse.
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I want to do so many things -- and maybe someday a lot of it will be impossible, but right now I don't see the impossible.
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I don't want to do drugs. I don't want to have to start over a million times. I want to have an abundance of good things in my life, and I want it to spread out evenly - I don't want it to come and go.
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Gave birth to her 1st child at age 29, a daughter named Arlo Day Brody on August 4, 2015. Child's father is her husband, Adam Brody.
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On October 28, 2014, she released her first album, "Heartstrings".
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(February 15, 2014) Married her boyfriend of 2 years Adam Brody following a 3-month-long engagement.
Ranked as having one of the most beautiful famous faces by "The Annual Independent Critics List of the 100 Most Beautiful Famous Faces From Around the World." She was ranked #4 in 2010, #14 in 2009, and #21 in 2008.
Moved to Los Angeles, California, at 14. She attended Hollywood High School and Beverly Hills High School. She then transferred to a small private school and graduated a year early.
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Her mother served a federal prison sentence for her involvement in a drug ring that smuggled marijuana from Jamaica to the United States. She was able to give birth to Leighton in a hospital and nursed her for three months in a halfway house, before returning to prison to complete her sentence. At this time Leighton's grandmother cared for her.
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Grew up in Marco Island, Florida.
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Was ranked #17 on Maxim Magazine's Hot 100 of 2010 list.
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Ranked #1 on FHM Online's Fall 2008 TV's Hottest Stars.
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Ranked #12 on Maxim Magazine's Hot 100 of 2009 list.
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Enjoys creative writing.
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She also speaks fluent French.
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Attended Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California.
Ranked #48 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list.
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Named one of People Magazines' 100 Most Beautiful in 2008.
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She is naturally blonde but dyed her hair brown for the role of "Blair Waldorf" for her TV series Gossip Girl (2007).
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She enjoys singing and even sang in the movie Drive Thru (2007).
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She has worked with famous photographer Sofia Coppola.
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Her surname, "Meester", is Dutch for "master" or "teacher". Her father is of approximately one quarter German, one quarter Dutch, one quarter Irish, and one quarter English, ancestry. Her maternal grandfather was the son of German immigrants, and her maternal grandmother had English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh ancestry.
$5 Million
