‘Gossip Girl’ actress Leighton Meester has opened up on feeling awkward sometimes. She says if she is away from family and friends, she can often feel out of her element and becomes quiet and awkward. She believes that this can often give off the wrong impression to other people, and they believe she might be ignoring them when really she just feels shy:
“If I’m not around close friends or family, I can get quiet and awkward, and it probably comes off as not very nice or just plain weird! It’s not meant to. I try to pull myself out of it but sometimes it’s hard for me to open up. In the past it was easier for me to trust people. Nowadays I judge pretty quickly: ‘You just want to be my friend because I’m on a TV show.’”
Commenting on her body image, Leighton says there are often things she wishes she could change about her appearance but sometimes you need to just think positively about how you look instead of putting the focus on the things you don’t like:
‘I wish I was stronger and more flexible. But I can always say, “I’d love my body if my legs were thinner, I’d love my hair if it were thicker.” You can do things to change the way you look, but it’s good to just say, “I love myself in this moment.”… As soon as you stop getting pimples, you start getting wrinkles, so what’s there to be upset about?’