Fun & Famous

gossip girl taught us 9 important life lessons

Sex and the City. Gossip Girl. Orange is the New Black. But let’s get back to Gossip Girl. Do you know how many life lessons and hidden messages are in this show?

1. Always dress to impress


Even when your boy has dumped you, your mother has gone bankrupt, even if your father faked his own death to protect his family (it can all happen in GG, and more of these kind of shenanigans); make sure you look picobello. It-girls Serena and Blaire always do it. Feel like shit? Wear lipstick and a cool dress and your life will be a lot better.

2. There’s always a reason for champagne


Just because you can. “I don’t need friends. I need more champagne,” according Blair Waldorf. Amen.

3. Fashion, well, it’s not always comfortable


And sometimes it doesn’t matter how it fits, but what it looks like. Like heels that are so uncomfortable when you walk, so they become your ‘sitting shoes’.

4. Leggings are not pants

I repeat: not. Like never. Ever.

5. Everyone lies about their age

To spare someones feelings, to avoid jail time, to crank up your reputation or to blackmail someone else. Every episode of Gossip Girl consists of at least twenty different lies.

6. Coats don’t always have to be black and boring

Sometimes they really complete your outfit. And women can never own too many coats.

7. Love is complicated

Having sex with someone who is twenty years older, falling in love with your besties boy, falling for someone in a different social class and porn videos that are threatened to be released: it can all happen in Gossip Girl. And yes. Even when you live in the Upper East Side and your life appears to be perfect, your love life can be complicated.

8. Waffles make everything better

Especially when you make them at home. Right, Rufus?

9. Money won’t buy you happiness

Because even the biggest bank account can lead you to having a bad relationship with your family. It can make you feel all alone. Addicted. Make you lose friends.