Blake Lively: Gossip Girl has made me secure

Blake Lively has overcome her shyness. The Gossip Girl star says she’s become “bolder and braver” in the last few years.

“It’s taken me time to learn to be bolder and braver. I think my shyness comes from feeling awkward for being tall,” she said.

“I’m still learning so much. I’ve grown up a lot over the past few years and Gossip Girl has made me much more secure.”

Blake — who recently split from boyfriend Penn Badgley – said last month that she hates it when the media makes up rumors.

“It’s weird to me that people will just make up rumors,” she said.

“When someone creates a story that’s not true the first thing I think of is my aunt, who I love so much and I would never want her to hear that…you know, ‘My little Blakey!’”