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The Gossip Girls Are Really Skinny
Category: Misc Celebs & Diet NewsI don’t know if any of you are planning to watch the season premiere of Gossip Girls (which is on tonight), but it’s already been mentioned in the media a few times that the girls playing in the show seem rather thin. Skinny, in fact.
We have Blake Lively, who plays Serena van der Woodsen:
Then Leighton Meester, who plays Blair Waldorf:
And Taylor Momsen, who plays Jenny Humphrey:
Now, the show takes place in the posh, glamorous and rich part of Manhattan (Upper East Side), where a lot of the girls are super-thin in real life… but are these girls too thin?
What do YOU all think?
hate the pink dress
I can safely say yes, they’re too thin. Can you imagine what they’d look like in a bikini? In these photos you can tell that they’re very skinny, and they’re wearing semi-bulky clothing. Without all of that padding, they’d be downright bony.
That pink dress is criminal and makes me distracted from thinking… of anything. else, at all…. but the horrid pink thing!
Um, they are very very thin. This is the first I have really seen of them, not seen the show, so I don’t think I can say much more. Ellie is right, imagine them in less bulk!
Back to that pink monstrosity LOL
I think that yes, they are thin, but not too skinny, they are gorgeous!
blake lively and taylor momson are relatively thin, but not excessively so, and leighton meester just looks normal to me.
i think that taylor’s skinny and the other two are very thin.. but i’ll bet that as the show becomes more popular, they’re going to get thinner!
omg i hate the cast non of them look how the book described them. maybe blair but thats it. plus non of them are skinny thin yes but not skinny.
Blake is the girl Bridget in the sisterhood of the traveling pants. She didn’t seem too thin in that movie, just fit and thin. However it looks she lost weight. As for the other girls, image obbessed girls who are quite skinny!
It seems like everyone wants celebrities to look overweight. Just because a large part of America is, well, large, doesn’t mean celebs (especially young high school age girls) have to be. None of these girls look too skinny or abnormal or unhealthy (however you want to phrase it). They all look great and healthy.
the last one looks like an idiot in that pink dress
blake looks great, leighton looks skinny, but not even close to “too skinny” and Taylor is supposed to be playing the role of a grade NINE. - it’s obvious why they chose someone so small to be playing her role.
I hate that show without even seeing it. Ugggh.
All I need to do to see girls of this annoying caliber is walk across the park. This is why I mainly stick to the West Side. Bleh.
I’ll take the first broad!
Taylor Momsen is 14, just because she has the make-up and clothes of some sort of clown prostitute doesn’t mean she’ll have the body of a grown woman yet.
Blake is gorgeous and has always been slim, never seen the other girl before
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i thought the first one was cate blanchett, lol
No their not too thin. They look great!
wow that girl called Blake is sooo pretty I love that type
never mind their weight… who in their right mind would be seen in public in that pink dress and that make-up???
That last one…what a train wreck. I think they look good…nothing different from the norm. Lol what do you expect, it’s Hollywood. Had they been heavier, there would be just as much fuss.
Wait, how old are these people? They all look like they are adults like late 20’s. Are they suppose to be playing teenagers?
They’re 14? God almighty. They look older than me, and I’m 23.
I don’t think they’re too skinny though, at least from these photos. Just slim. And un-14-like.
the last girl is on like 14 or 15 so she probably just hasn’t matured yet…….did u guys realize that the last one is also the little girl for the grinch
“…i’ll bet that as the show becomes more popular, they’re going to get thinner!” I have to agree with you Kamilia. They don’t seem scary thin to me, but I’m sure they’ll get thinner if the show gains popularity.
shady, you don’t think Blake makes a good Serena? I totally think she does (and yes, I’ve read all the books). But Jenny’s character has brown hair and is supposedly quite plain (except for a certain part of her anatomy) in the book, so I don’t understand why they chose a really cute blond for her part?
i don’t know who these girls are… but wow, if they’re meant to be in their teens….. I thought they would be mid to late 20’s…..
weight wise…they look like the weight they are meant to be….. if that makes sense at all…
I read the books and it was mentioned jenny humprey has huge boobs…But that girl has quite normal boobs and even small.also she should be really short
Pink dress = bad.
They all look great body-wise though, in my opinion.
I’ve personally never seen the show, and probably won’t! But, that pink dress is horrific! It looks like somebody spilled pepto-bismal all over her!!
ive read alot of the books b4 i knew it was going to be a show and the books are really great i think. and Blair, in the book, almost never eats and when she does she pukes so basically shes bulimic and i wouldnt recommend the book to any little girl caz it will put ideas in their heads. but they are all gorgeous i cant wait to c the show!!! and i agree they prolly will just get skinnier with the more fame they get.
taylor is young so she is at a normal weight and the other two look thin but healthy thin. They look thinner because of the high heels.
this show is going to be great….my number 1 guilty pleasure maybe after the hills…how tall are these girls? blake always crossed me as being pretty tall and lean…
Eh. Can’t tell and don’t care.
Never heard of them. Or the show.
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Most 14 year olds I know look about that thin. I see lots with skinny jeans hanging out at the mall where their moms dropped them off.
Girls don’t usually start filling out until their late teens, and then their freshman 15 hits….before long they are chubby collegeates.
Oh my God,Taylor Momsen looks like an idiot.She looks like a cross between a Carmen Electra wannabe and clown college.I think Blake Lively looks great.She looks about the same way she did in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,maybe a bit thinner,and she looked really fit then.Leighton Meesler is really pretty thin,but she doesnt look like she’s about to collapse or anything.
PS-In case the casting directors dont know how to read the Gossip Girl books,Jenny’s a ninth grader with an enormous chest and dark curly hair.
I saw Blake Lively in The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants and she looked thin there, so I guess she’s naturally thin, maybe this time they just forced her to get a trainer so she looks more lean. I think sometimes we have to give skinny people a break too - I know people who eat normally and sometimes more than normally and don’t workout and yet are STILL skinny. It’s just like how sometimes overweight people barely eat, but don’t lose much weight. What I can’t stand are people who PRETEND that they’re naturally thin, but are actually starving themselves.
14? they looks like someones mom!
not too thin…they look like 30 year olds that are addicted to yoga and vegan dishes they discover and talk about to feel important.
They look normal to me.
I just visited San Diego this past weekend. And if you think that the girls in LA or New York are skinny- they are all rails down in SD ! And there is not really any entertainment industry down there. I think the girls are getting this thin everywhere now and the show reflects that. Or maybe the other way around. . .
well, what do you expect? they’re starring in GOSSIP GIRLS, for chrissakes…. a show about spoilt, wealthy teens from socialite families in nyc.. so obviously they’re gonna have to look the part
They don’t look that skinny. I think the girl who plays Serena looks so old (her face). The girl who plays Blair looks a bit like Minka Kelly (Lyla Garrity on Friday Night Lights) and Alexis Bledel.
lol @ bee
too true!
They’re thin, yes, but not about to collapse. They look like the ideal teenage girl we’ve been seeing in movies, television, and magazines for awhile now. OMG Taylor Momsen looks EXACTLY like Alyson Michalka minus the fugly dress!
I think the girl who plays Blair is pretty, but I really don’t think Blake Lively is all that pretty.
hell yeah they have to be thin -its a competitive world and acting wise they are as good as nails on chalkboard
I think they all look pretty normal except for that pink dress! That is hideous!! I can’t believe that last girl is 14…she looks older than me and I’m 27! Of course, I do have people asking me if I’m 17 w/ make-up on but still. They don’t look too thin though.
Will anyone even remember this trio next year?
When was the last time there was a tv show which featured any non-skinny women? Aside from Renee on Ally McBeal I’m at a loss.
the first one looks too thin for sure - the second looks like a regular slim woman (girl?), the third can’t tell cause of the hideous prom mumu - but according to tv popular people and rich people are never fat or ugly or old
blake lively looks like a mix between cate blanchette and gwenyth paltrow!!!
I’ve lived on Manhattan’s upper east side my whole life…and the majority of women are just as slim if not slimmer than those girls.
Nah they’re definitely not too thin.
They’re slim and fit and look good.
Blake looks really pretty here.
Someone else mentioned it but in the book Blair has an eating disorder and S is supposed to be thinner than her. I don’t know about these girls in real life but I do agree they appear very thin, but were most likely cast this way.
No they are difinately not too skinny, like they look really healthy and smart!
I saw the show and think it’s a cute east-coast version of the OC, which is the market they’re trying to harness. Taylor is skinny but she’s only 14 years old. I like Blake, but her face looks much older than 20 in the closeups. Leighton is beautiful.
I live in Boston and they look normal to me, not overly thin.
What freaks me out is that Taylor Momsen (the girl in the pink dress) is only FOURTEEN YEARS OLD… wow! She’s the girl who played in the Grinch with Jim Carey… that is NOT how a 14 year olds figure should look!
So I gather Taylor Momsen, who plays Jenny Humphrey is already playing her role: a dumb one? Whatever posessed her to slip into that dress? And have her hair like that? Awful. Just awful.
And yes, they are all very skinny but does that really surprise you?
Hardly. The only thin one is Taylor…the other two are chubbish
no only the last one is 14. blake lively (the blonde one) is from sisterhood of the traveling pants, she’s sooo pretty, and she is not too skinny…or at least she wasnt in that movie.
Don’t you guys think it’s funny how Blake looks like she could be Cate Blanchett’s little sister, Leighton could be mistaken for Rose McGowan and Taylor is the standing image of Portia De Rossi:D
They looked normal to me. Not waifish but slender, and they’re gorgeous. And isn’t Taylor Momsen like below the age of 16? Then it’s natural for girls at that age to be slightly on the slimmer side, they haven’t reached puberty…or maybe some have. But again, the issue of what’s underweight/what’s not is subjective. It depends on where you live. For example, I’ve lived in Manhattan, Tokyo, Melbourne and Moscow for a short time, those 3 girls has the average body weight/shape. But maybe, it different in some parts of the whole. It depends on your daily food intake actually.
the girl who plays serena is too thin, the others look more healthy thin.
This is ridiculous: these girls are not “too” thin. Apparently this is a little known fact, but some people in the world are naturally thin. Each of these actresses have the kind of body type that seems to tend towards thinness. And none of them look sickly or emaciated. If anything Leighton Meester could afford to lose a little in her arms, but that’s a personal preference. Whatever she feels most comfortable with.
This is what always annoys me about the “curves” debate. Some people aren’t genetically disposed to be curvy…why insist on people gaining weight when it clearly isn’t the way they’re meant to be? Just like naturally heavier people shouldn’t feel obligated to be thinner. If only people could be accepting of all body types.
If you watch the show, Blake Lively and Leighton Meester are healthy-looking but you can see Taylor Momsen’s bones in her shoulders alot. It makes me cringe when I see them and I think she’s too thin. I relaly hope she doesn’t get any thinner..
i went to school with taylor before she moved to ny to film the show and she has always been soooo skinny
I go to the school that this book and show are based on (the author went to my school). 75% of the school is super skinny, it’s just new york, you look out of place if your slightly overweight
Jenny (Taylor,14)
In the Books shes over wieght. and is an brunette But of corse they went in another dicriction.
no they are not too skinny AT ALL. Americans are generally overweight so when they see people who are the correct weight, they freak out. Girl’s my height,5′10, should weigh about 120. Leighton and Taylor are also the correct weight for their heights.
-B