Leighton Meester Shares Rare Insight Into Her Family Life With Husband Adam Brody and Kids

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Mother knows best. Leighton Meester offered some rare insight into her family life while speaking about her new film, The Weekend Away.“I really was excited about playing a new mother who’s having a weekend away for the first time, which is the most exciting and really the most terrifying prospect when you have a new baby,” the Gossip Girl alum, 35, told Cosmopolitan UK on Thursday, March 3. “I felt like that was the kind of character that I could very easily relate to, slip into, and have compassion for.

When I got the script breakdown it was like a 35-year-old with a 10-month-old and I was like, ‘That is exactly me.'”Meester, who shares daughter Arlo, 6, and a son with husband Adam Brody, explained that it can be difficult being away from her children, especially when she’s working on location, as she did for The Weekend Away. “The element of being away from your child is very different from when you’re with your child,” the Single Parents alum said. “At least for me.

When anything happens, if your kid gets hurt or something happens, that’s your number one concern.”She continued: “[My character, Beth is] not with her kid, so that would drive me mad.

I would be devastated to be in a situation like that and be thousands of miles away from my kid.”Though Meester prefers to keep her personal life out of the spotlight, she has previously opened up about how she and the O.C.