[With a plethora of distracting hyperlinks and footnotes]The best looking girl on Gossip Girl is not Serena van der Woodsen, Blair Waldorf, or or Georgina Sparks; it's Lily van der Woodsen, Serena's mom. She joins Julia Cooper-Nichol (from the O.C.), Kirsten Cohen (also from the O.C.), and Famke Jansen* (Nip/Tuck) in the "Moms who are better looking than their kids" pantheon--a pantheon, that, quite frankly, I'd like to see expanded, despite any implications about negative genetic drift.
Maybe I'm getting a bit long in the tooth, but I don't think the contest between her and the GG nymphets is even close. She just does it for me, you know? All the other characters have aesthetic flaws (alien-like features, brown hair), but not Lily van der Woodsen**.
There's an especially funny scene where the guy who looks like John Stamos is forced to choose between Lily and his kinda ok, but not-quite pulchritudinous wife--a choice forced on him by the wife!--and it's the worst mismatch since Rommel v. Gamelin, France 1940.
Let's hope we see more of Lily and other gorgeous snow leopards*** on this show and on many others.
[Editor's update: the follwing entry appears on the imdb page of the actress who plays Lily:
"Bodies of Evidence" .... Diana Wallace (1 episode, 1992) - Afternoon Delights (1992) TV episode .... Diana Wallace
end update]*who turned out to be a post-op in the worst TV plot twist since the "it was all a dream" debacle that ruined Dallas.
**Is her name a play on Lily von Schtupp?
***Like a classier cougar
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snow leopards are awesome
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