Tuesday April 14, 2009

Blake Lively admits her towering height makes her a bit self-conscious.

“I feel like a tranny a lot of the time,” the 5-foot-10 star — who plays Serena van der Woodsen in the hit CW show Gossip Girl — tells the May issue of Allure magazine. “I don’t know, I’m … large? They put me in six-inch heels, and I tower over every man. I’ve got this long hair and lots of clothes and makeup on.”

“I just feel really big a lot of the time, and I’m surrounded by a lot of tiny people,” she adds. “I feel like a man sometimes.”

Blake, 21, says that with her blond hair and small dog, she rarely wears pink “to avoid looking like a piece of bubble gum.”

Of her relationship with Gossip Girl costar Penn Badgley, Lively adds, “You see people who will open up their relationships, who are very affectionate on the red carpet or are doing a reality show with each other, and their relationship just seems to crumble, so I decided to keep a vow of silence.”

“He plays any instrument he picks up,” she says of her beau’s talents. “He bought a piano, and then two months later you would think he was a concert pianist.”

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