In a private ceremony, she married actor Adam Brody in 2014, after quietly dating following their 2011 collaboration on The Oranges. Love brought stability and the actress built a family, and focused on motherhood, describing it as “intimate and private”.
“I consider myself lucky. I was never lied to. And I was loved,” she said, reflecting on the life lessons that shaped her resilience and perspective.
“It’s made me very nonjudgmental and open-minded. I think it also helps me appreciate the things I have now,” she shared in a candid 2008 interview with Us Weekly.
Looking back on her mother, she said, ”She’s always there for me no matter what. I swear, that woman knows everything.”
Later, she was even more open about her childhood, admitting, ”My family has a crazy history. Probably the craziest I’ve heard of.”
“I feel so close to that person”
And now, it’s time t reveal the name behind this incredible journey: Leighton Meester!
Her role as the privileged, backstabbing Blair Waldorf in Gossip Girl cemented her place in Hollywood. The series aired from 2007 to 2012, during Meester’s twenties, and she still looks back on that period with deep emotion.
“I feel so close to that person, almost now more than any other time in my life. I feel very in touch with her, and I feel for her,” she told the LA Times in 2025.
But did you know that Meester’s ambitions didn’t stop at acting? Alongside her TV success, she explored the music scene, briefly flirting with mainstream pop before realizing she needed a sound that truly reflected her.
Still, she admits the experience didn’t fully satisfy her.
“I just didn’t feel like I sang that well in those songs,” she confessed. “That’s why I stopped doing that style of songwriting, because I didn’t feel really good when I would sing it. That was something that I figured out in my 20s.”
