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Blake Lively first garnered attention through her role in the hit TV series Gossip Girl, but it wasn’t long before her natural charm began to be overshadowed by a sequence of careless comments. One of her earliest missteps was during a 2008 interview related to Gossip Girl, where she made an insensitive joke about her co-star Leighton Meester's upbringing. Lively casually referenced "being born in a cage," a cruel remark given Meester's difficult childhood, as her mother was imprisoned during the time of her birth. Such flippant remarks hint at a troubling pattern of making light of serious issues, alienating fans in the process.