Despite starting her career as an actress, Taylor Momsen found her true passion in music. While her time as Jenny Humphrey on Gossip Girl helped make her a star, she ultimately pivoted to fronting her band Pretty Reckless full time. She left the fashion world behind and followed her love of film and TV back to school for a Media Arts degree.
She is an avid Halloween fan with a passion for all things horror. Another Gossip Girl that never came to be was Valley Girls , which was supposed to begin off the back of the flashback episode of the same name, following a young Lily Van Der Woodsen.
At the time, Taylor Momsen was just seven years old. She made her acting debut as Cindy Lou Who in the film, almost unrecognizable in comparison to the version of herself in Gossip Girl and the powerful rock singer of Her role in the kid's classic even saw her nominated for a fair few awards. Everyone knows that Taylor Momsen left Gossip Girl. Banished by Blair and using her fresh start to get going on a fashion line, it was plain sailing for the fictional teen.
However, sailing was even plainer for Taylor Momsen herself, who stepped back from the show and straight into the limelight of the music industry. She now fronts The Pretty Reckless, a band she formed a full year before leaving the show. At the same time, Jenny is taking on more responsibilities at Waldorf Designs and befriends a model, Agnes Andrews , who convinces her to quit letting Eleanor rip off her designs and start her own clothing line.
Later that day she hangs out with Agnes and ends up dancing with her shirt off while Agnes' boyfriend, Max, takes photos. Nate escorts her home but kisses her on the way out. They successfully do so, and Dan kicks Nate out of the loft after he witnesses him kiss Jenny.
However, Rufus is angry with Jenny for sabotaging an event and almost has her arrested. Afterwards Jenny moves out to stay with Agnes. In Bonfire of the Vanity Jenny becomes increasingly annoyed with Agnes' cavalier behavior towards the future of their line. After she blows an important meeting, Jenny steals her list of contacts and begins to meet with them secretly.
When Agnes finds out she burns all of Jenny's dresses and kicks her out of her apartment. Jenny then goes home to ask Rufus to sign papers giving permission for her to start her own line. He refuses and Jenny goes to stay at the art gallery. The next day, she meets with a potential investor who suggests she emancipate herself to get the ball rolling on next steps.
Lily finds Jenny's emancipation papers and immediately calls Rufus to tell him. She arranges a meeting between the two and Rufus tells Jenny that if she really truly wants him to sign the papers, he will. She mulls it over before ripping the papers up and tells Rufus that she doesn't want to not be his daughter. At Thanksgiving dinner, Vanessa finds a letter Nate wrote to Jenny where he admits he has feelings for her and she steals it before Jenny can see it. Jenny makes her a dress with zero lining, rendering the dress see through, and they arrange for Vanessa to have a spotlight shown on her.
When Nate finds out what Jenny did he tells her he has no interest in her anymore It's a Wonderful Lie. In Gone with the Will it's revealed that Jenny, Dan, Serena, and Eric share a half sibling due to Rufus and Lily having had a son before any of them were born. In Dan de Fleurette Jenny officially begins her reign as new queen of Constance. However, Blair is unsatisfied with the way she is running things and steps in. After this, Jenny begins to take her new role more seriously and becomes much like the way Blair was.
Soon after, Jenny is tested when she chooses being queen over her friendship with Eric and the two begin to fight How to Succeed in Bassness. He brings Jenny onto his operation and the two become close, eventually beginning to date in The Lady Vanished. However, since Damien is older than Jenny, he becomes interested in wanting to have sex with her. Jenny is onboard until she realizes her virginity is a bigger deal than Damien made it out to be, so the two break up The Sixteen Year Old Virgin.
Meanwhile, Jenny begins crushing on Nate and works to break up his relationship with Serena. In Inglourious Bassterds she learns Serena has left the state to find her father, William van der Woodsen , with Carter and chooses not to tell Nate the information. She uses his anger toward Serena to advance her intentions toward him but he rejects her Dr. Later that night, while researching Lily's cancer, Jenny realizes that the medicine William is prescribing her is not effective at healing.
That was partly because she had been sent away to live with her mother, Alison, in Hudson, New York. But what was really going on behind the scenes? Did the show write her off on purpose? According to Deadline , Taylor was also exhibiting "volatile" behavior on set that "raised eyebrows," and that's what led to less screen time.
Reps for the CW and producers at Warner Bros. Taylor herself did speak out about why fans didn't see much of her on the teen drama. She shared that she decided to ditch acting and pursue her music career instead. Acting had just been a means to earn a living, and that's it.
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