Taylor Momsen: "I Get Such a Rap for Being Like Lindsay Lohan"

Celebrity News December 30, 2009 AT 11:45AM By UsWeekly Staff

Although 16 year-old Taylor Momsen's edgy, beyond-her-years look makes some onlookers uneasy, the Gossip Girl actress resents any comparisons to another former child star. "I get such a bad rap for being like Lindsay Lohan," Momsen says in the February issue of Seventeen magazine.

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Momsen then qualifies her Lohan diss, saying, "I hate naming names because she's really sweet -- and I'm really not. I don't go out. I have no desire to be some tabloid party girl. I'm entirely a loner. I have been my entire life."

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But the actress, who made her big Hollywood debut in 2000's How the Grinch Stole Christmas, does embrace her reputation as an "angsty" teen. "I'll be angsty until I'm 80 years old," she quips. "I think that keeps things fresh. But I always think angst is such a derogatory word toward teenagers. It just means you're figuring s*** out."

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Like Lohan, Momsen has music aspirations, and fronts the punk-rock band The Pretty Reckless. She complains that "people don't really take me seriously" because of her age. But she's a little different than other 16 year-olds, she insists.

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"[People] think most 16-year-olds don't know what they want to do. But I actually really do, because I've been thinking about [music] since I was 2."

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December 30, 2009 - 11:07pm Eva
Wow! Thinks alot of herself! BTW, angst is German for fear!
December 30, 2009 - 8:18pm Who Cares
it's only a matter of time that she starts hitting the clubs every night and looking a complete wreck a la Lindsay Lohan
December 30, 2009 - 3:46pm the real anon2
She always wears way too much make-up..I don't believe she is like Lindsay at all, but her look definitely gives that impression to people who don't already know of her.
December 30, 2009 - 3:06pm Abigail
I sure hope that she doesn't turn out like Lindsay. Dear God!
December 30, 2009 - 2:06pm Sooo Rich
She doesn't look anything like Lindsay
December 30, 2009 - 1:52pm Boeing 787
She does look older than her older co-stars and she does have an edgy look not atypical for those her age as we also see with Miley Cyrus. I do hope she does not end up like Lindsay Lohan being a junkie and getting involved with the wrong people.
December 30, 2009 - 1:30pm To Taylor:
Don't worry Taylor.Nobody thinks that.Theres no way you can be that s---ky.