Despite all of Leighton Meester‘s great career and personal success in life, living wasn’t always easy for the Texas native.
Here we breakdown everything to know about the Gossip Girl star’s mother, Constance Meester, and how her tussles with the law lead to a troublesome relationship with her daughter. Constance Meester had a troubled history Before having Leighton, Constance helped her boyfriend at the time, Douglas Jay Meester (Leighton’s father), smuggle marijuana from Jamaica to the U.S.
via a drug ring. These actions later landed her in prison, along with Douglas, and Leighton’s maternal aunt and grandfather.
Leighton was born on April 9, 1986 in Fort Worth, Texas, and Constance was able to give birth in a hospital outside of prison and nurse her baby for a few months in a halfway house before giving up Leighton to live with her paternal grandparents.
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