Leighton Meester Does ‘Harper’s Bazaar’ Magazine
Back in June we learned that a new celebrity sex tape had hit the Internets that featured Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester and since then she has kept pretty quiet about the tape. But this month, Meester is featured on the cover and in the pages of Harper’s Bazaar magazine and she finally opens up about the embarrassing tape that has been making the rounds online for the past couple of months which, according to her, is “not real”. Here is Leighton’s Harper’s cover and a portion of her coverstory interview:
Leighton Meester understands that being on a buzzed-about show automatically puts her in the spotlight – but she doesn’t have to like it. “I don’t want most of what comes along with all of this,” says the Gossip Girl star in the September issue of Harper’s Bazaar, on newsstands Aug. 18. One particular downside of fame is a rumored sex tape of the star with an ex-boyfriend that has allegedly been shopped around. “[The tape] is not real, so it makes me sort of sad,” says the actress. “It’s unfortunate that it got carried as far as it did.” Meester says the rumor has taught her some lessons about life. “I definitely understand the nature of people better now and that the mere allegation of something like that could be headline news. People think it’s real because somebody says it is.” But the star has friends who watch out for her. “I feel like my friends are in a cult because we’re like, ‘No outsiders!’ ” she says. “I’ve never been crazy. I’m a very good girl, to be honest. I don’t do anything to hurt anybody. Honestly, all I ever do is work.” At work, costar Ed Westwick is one person who can vouch for Meester’s sweetness – and her natural good looks. “The first thing I thought when I met Leighton was … hell, this girl’s gorgeous. And she was incredibly sweet.”
I’m confused … how exactly is the explicit tape “not real”? If she means that it was prolly not filmed for public viewing then she’s most likely correct but to say that the sex tape she made with her then boyfriend is “not real” isn’t really accurate. Whatever the case may be, Leighton strikes me as the kind of woman who learns from her mistakes and I highly doubt she’ll ever get messed up in a sex tape scandal like this again (unlike, say, Vanessa Hudgens, who clearly didn’t learn her lesson the first time nekkid pics of her made their way to the Internets). Moving on, after the jump, check out photos of Leighton from this new issue of Harper’s Bazaar magazine where the mag (inexplicably) decided to age her in some of the photos …
The magazine explains, “In an ode to the magazine’s most popular editorial franchise “Fabulous at Every Age,” the Gossip Girl star ages gracefully through the decades with the help of some digital enhancements.” Um, this doesn’t make any sense to me at all. Why not just photograph beautiful women at different stages of age rather than digitally enhance photos taken of a young girl. I don’t get it. Do you?
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August 5th, 2009 at 11:36 am
…Am I the only one who thinks she’s not all that pretty?
August 5th, 2009 at 11:49 am
The “aged” photos are creepy as hell.
August 5th, 2009 at 11:54 am
ummm yeah, I wonder if she knew they would be doing that. I would be pissed if I was her.
August 5th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Trent, I love your blog but I don’t understand. It seems like you give women a harder time for posing nude than men. When Dustin Lance Black had his sex tape you didn’t even post the pictures, you gave us, as the readers, a link. But with Leighton you posted her sex tape pictures and now Vanessa’s whom you don’t even know for a fact if they’re old or new. I know it’s clearly debatable but it strikes me kind of odd. Hmm. Anyways, I don’t really care for this chick.
August 5th, 2009 at 11:59 am
@CHASE — I did post the photos of DLB and they were up until his lawyers asked they be removed, which I did. If more men released nudie pics, believe me, I’d post them.
August 5th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
i think she’s beautiful. im actually a little dissapointed that its “fake” or so she says here, for some reason i’d have been really amazed if she’d held her head up high and said “yes that is what i did, have you ever done that? just because i’m famous it comes back and haunts me though, im not ashamed!”
i would have really admired her for that. but im still really glad she’s facing the issue in an interview. she’s the best of the GG cast!
love your blog trent!
August 5th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
[...] Score! Leighton Meester lands the cover of Harper’s Bazaar. [PITNB] [...]
August 5th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
the cover pic is kind of weird…. it looks like they took a stock picture of her and pasted it onto a gold background or something… that being said, she has the perfect color of brown hair
August 5th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
She looks like a young Julianne Moore.
August 5th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
So is she saying that it wasn’t her in that video? hahaha. Or just that it isn’t real? Like they digitally added her to some other porno? Lying about it seems pretty lame. Why even bother to address it if your not going to admit to it.
August 5th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
just me or does she look remarkably like Drew Barrymore in the aged pic?
August 5th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
@kk she has the perfect brown hair because she’s a natural blonde, haha. when it comes from a bottle it’s not hard to be perfect.
August 5th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
@kk, I was thinking the same thing. It looks like they took a paparazzi red carpet shot and just slapped it on the cover. Strange.
August 6th, 2009 at 2:24 am
IMHO she’s by far the most beautiful actress out there right now. What a stunner. That said, I have no idea what “look” Harpers was going for with the aged pic. A total miss.
August 19th, 2009 at 9:08 am
in the full interview, she admits the pictures are her but there is no accompanying tape.
and she does hold her head up high… she’s been proving it with her actions. no canceled appearances and i havent seen her hiding in her house.
the alleged tape is almost over 5 years old and made before she was famous. get your facts straight.
August 21st, 2009 at 11:33 pm
ok so i love leighton … just wanted to say but … 1. I don’t get the aged photo thing at all and 2. that cover is sooooo BORING … come on Harpers Bazzar … do better