Who would have thought that the star of the show “Gossip Girl” Leighton Meester has born in prison. Mom Layton was sentenced to 10 years in prison for drug smuggling.

Meester was born in Fort Worth, Texas, to Constance and Douglas Meester. Leighton's father is of Dutch descent. Meester's last name means "master" or "teacher" in Dutch.

At the time, her mother was serving a federal prison sentence for her involvement in a drug ring that smuggled marijuana from Jamaica to the United States. She was able to give birth to Leighton in a hospital and nurse her for three months in a halfway
house, before returning to prison to complete her sentence, after which Leighton's grandmother cared for her.

Meester has maintained that her parents gave her a normal upbringing and, despite their criminal past, are good people with experience that has only made Meester more open-minded and non-judgmental, "It made me realize that you can't judge anyone — especially your parents — for what they've done in their past, because people change." Meester has joked, "Look, I could've turned out a lot worse." She has cited her mother as her style icon.

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