Serena van der Woodsen May Not Be Legal, But Blake Lively Is

It's a strange thing, adult actors playing high school students. We remember how devastated we were when we first learned that those kids in Head of the Class weren't kids at all. It was just downhill from there: Beverly Hills 90210, Dawson's Creek and now Gossip Girl. But with the right amount of whining they always seem to make it work (and we always seem to get embarrassingly addicted).

Anyway, little miss Serena van der Woodsen—the sometimes-troubled high school student played by Blake Lively on the CW's Gossip Girl—just turned 22. So just in case you were wondering, you are totally allowed to gawk over this picture of her at her birthday party (and have been allowed to for some time now). [People]