I’ve added a new scan cover of Leighton Meester appears on the cover of the September 2011 Issue of Australia’s Cleo magazine. Click here to view the hi res version in the gallery.

The 25-year-old ‘Gossip Girl’ star tells the mag: “Fame to me is just silliness and I don’t want any of that. I guess that’s part of my job but I think my job is acting and that’s where I find my joy.” “I don’t really have any issues or problems with [the stardom]. The best part of that aspect is that we have great fans.”

A big event on Gossip Girl
Could this sneak peek at the CW drama’s season 4 finale (May 16) mean that chuck (Ed Westwick, left) and Blair (Leighton Meester, right) will have the reconciliation fans have been waiting for? Or… maybe even a wedding? Exec producers Stephanie Savage and Joshua Safran are coy about the details but Safran confirms that Blair will have an engagement ring on her finger by season’s end, and that “this [photo] may or may not have something to do with that.” Adds Savage: “Blair has always been in search of her fairy tale, so the end of this season is very much about ‘What is that fairy tale?’”

Leighton Meester landed the cover of next month’s Cosmopolitan – Australian edition, for those of you lucky Aussies — and talked about how great her Gossip Girl alter-ego is. We couldn’t agree more, obvs. She told the mag, “I love Blair and I love playing her, so to call her just a flat-out bitch is generalizing a bit.”

Click to see what Leighton has to say about being on Gossip Girl and the “B” word (uh, not Blair).

On her Blair Waldorf: “We’re a lot alike. She’s very realistic. The way she talks, the things she does and says are a reflection of pretty much what every girl has been through.”

On her signature Blair-isms: “The way I play her, I think it is fun to bring out that little bit of campness to the bitchy lines and little remarks she has.”

On her Queen B behavior: “But I think it is her insecurity that makes her act the way she does… and the way she was brought up. So there is always a motive behind it.”

Source: Teen.com

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She’s also our February cover girl – after all, it is The Love Month, and we’re totally head-over-heels for this New York-based actress.

Leighton Meester on Blair Waldorf:
Blair is…. I don’t know what she is… I have to enter a completely foreign body to sympathize with Blair and her decisions.  You know, Blair grew up very savvy, well-educated, and lonely.  I think her mother is not the most supportive person and… Blair is very competitive and conniving, and it obviously comes, usually, from a very human place, but she makes decisions that I would never make.

Leighton Meester on her Country Strong character, Chiles Stanton:
She is so scared of people thinking of her as this ignorant, vapid, pretty face, and you know, I can totally understand where she’s coming from because, especially if you come from Dallas Texas, you’re a beauty queen – you don’t play the guitar, you’re writing seemingly meaningless pop songs.  All that I can relate to, totally.  It’s sad and sweet at the same time.”

Minka Kelly on Leighton Meester during the filming of The Roommate:
She worked with psychologists; she really studied the illness of the character, so much that at times on set i was a little concerned whether or not she was there because she scared me so much!  The look in her eye was so surreal I was in awe at how much she committed to it.

Leighton Meester on Her Family and Friends:
I like to be judged by my family and friends because they know me.  If they think I’m being an asshole I’d like them to tell me, but if I’m fat or something I’m like, “Well, so?  OK?  Great!”  It doesn’t even matter; it’s like, “What if I am fat? Does it matter?”… I’m a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know!  Am I alone there?  Not really!