The young woman who approached the table by the window at the Pinkberry on Eighth Avenue and 18th street was nervous, breathless. She was sorry to interrupt, sorry to be a bother, she said. It was just that she loved Taylor Momsen so much.

The just-barely-15-year-old Ms. Momsen, who plays aspiring queen bee Jenny Humphrey on the CW show Gossip Girl, gave the woman—who looked to be at least in her mid-20s, and was clutching a napkin and shaking like a whippet in winter—a warm, practiced smile and helped her locate a pen and piece of paper so she could sign the autograph on something suitable. Ms. Momsen scribbled her name with a girlish curlicue flourish, and offered a friendly wave goodbye as her fan skipped elatedly out the door.

It’s a regular occurrence now for Ms. Momsen (“The older girls get nervous. The younger girls, cry,” she said), who, over the summer, has become the obsession of a strange and ragged slice of New York. Even as her co-stars have ascended the ladder of gossip-worthiness—the golden-locked goddess Blake Lively and the impressively sideburned Penn Badgley have had a very public romance while dandy-dressing, secretly English Ed Westwick has hardly been shy about his carousing—Ms. Momsen has emerged as the show’s true It Girl: admired, lusted after and, of course, scorned. Girls and young women covet her style (which ranges from bright, simple and sophisticated to mix-and-match punk). Boys and men—in their teens and 20s and beyond—can’t help but be drawn to her coltish beauty (even as that fact could make them uncomfortable). And there are the requisite haters, too, so unnerved by Ms. Momsen’s uncanny poise and sudden ubiquity that they can’t help but snipe at her. As photographs of her—on location for Gossip Girl, making the rounds at parties and movie premieres, riding the subway around her newly adopted city—have cropped up on celeb-tracking blogs and Web sites, they’ve also collected captions and comments snarky and vicious enough to be straight from the cell phone of Gossip Girl’s eponymous blogger.

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Filed Under:Taylor Momsen

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2008: 2008 All Points West Music And Arts Festival (August 9th) x5
Taylor Shoot 007: IMG Modelling Shoot 2 x8

Filed Under:Gallery, Jessica Szohr, Taylor Momsen

I´m sorry that I don´t have time to post thumbnails but here are newish pics:

• 2008: Ed at LAX airport (August 2nd)
• 2008: Ed at Lollapolza festival (August 2nd)
• 2008: Blake on her way to GG set (August 5th)
• 2008: Teen Choice Awards - Press Room (August 3rd) (updated)
• 2008: Chace out in West Hollywood (August 4th)
• 2008: Kelly attends Tods & Baby Buggy Summer Luncheon (August 1st)
• 2008: Kelly at 19th Annual Wild Wild West Family Day Carnival (August 3rd)
• 2008: Ed at JFK (August 4th)
• 2008: Kelly out in Beverly Hills (August 7th)
• BTS August 5h
• BTS August 6th
• BTS August 7th
• 2008: Leighton at Piaget Hosts The Limelight Paris-New York Collection (August 7th)
• 2008: Leighton at JFK (August 4th)
• 2008: Blake on TRL (August 4th)

Filed Under:Blake Lively, Cast, Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick, Gallery, Kelly Rutherford, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, Taylor Momsen

Links:

• Robert Deutsch
• Chace Photoshoot 10: Tony Duran
• Shoot 14: NYMag
• 2008: Blake outsite TRL (August 4th)
• 2008: Blake out in NYC (August 4th)

And many other albums from August updated

Filed Under:Blake Lively, Cast, Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick, Gallery, Jessica Szohr, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, Taylor Momsen

Taylor Shoot 006: IMG Modelling Shoot x9 MQ

Filed Under:Gallery, Taylor Momsen

For Yesterday

Filed Under:Taylor Momsen

Professional Performing Arts School (PPAS) senior prom (July 13th) x11HQ

Filed Under:Connor Paolo, Gallery, Taylor Momsen

Links:
2008: Blake out and about in NYC (July 11th) x6
Leighton during a break on set (July 11th 2008) x7
2008: Simon Wiesenthal Center Dinner Honoring Whoopi Goldberg (June 18th) x3
2008: Stand Up For A Cure Jerry Seinfeld Live In Concert (June 2nd) x11
TM: July 11th, 2008 x3
Televizier [dutch magazine] (July 2008) x3 (thank you to Kim)

Filed Under:Blake Lively, Gallery, Leighton Meester, Taylor Momsen

Let there be water! Gossip Girl costars Taylor Momsen and Penn Badgley get in the summer swing of things during a photo shoot Thursday at a New York City playground.

I hope that mean’s we’ll get a new photoshoot soon!

Filed Under:Penn Badgley, Taylor Momsen

Taylor Momsen of Gossip Girl fame just got signed to IMG models.

This make her one of the youngest girls on the roster, since Taylor is fourteen - a year younger than Gemma Ward when she scored her first Prada campaign and leaped from IMG’s development board onto their women’s one.

There’s no denying that Taylor has model looks and model height, but it’s interesting to note IMG’s scooping her up so quickly, since she has yet to score any big campaigns or magazine covers.

Expect a big Teen Vogue spread soon, and also probably some sort of Neutrogena / Clinique / Lip Smackers partnership, unless she sails straight past the Dooney and Bourke market and scores some Gap ads.

Also: IMG signed Mischa when she was about sixteen and turned her from a child actress into a sex bomb. It would be silly to think that isn’t also their strategy here.

Stay tuned!

Filed Under:Taylor Momsen