Magazine: US Vogue
Issue: Febuary 2009
Covergirl: Blake Lively
Photography by Mario Testino
Website: www.vogue.com
The scene called for Serena van der Woodsen to saunter down East Sixty-first Street with sunny insouciance, but Blake Lively, who plays the heroine of Gossip Girl, was instead stooped and pale-green with stomach flu. Shivering in the dank November rain, Lively stood as a makeup woman spritzed her cascade of blonde hair. Her teeth chattered as she wanly assured a concerned member of the film crew, "It's OK; I just need to go to the doctor." Then a production assistant plucked the oversize down coat from her shoulders, and in a black Marc Jacobs overcoat and Té Casan teal suede boots, Lively sauntered while delivering a stream of sisterly advice to Serena's younger brother, Eric, without a stumble or hitch…Read the rest of the abridged article HERE.