Blake Lively may play an Uptown Girl on The CW’s cult hit Gossip Girl, but the 5-foot-10 inch blonde often feels likes she’s trapped in the body of one of those transsexual hookers that littered Times Square back in the ’90s.

“I feel like a tranny a lot of the time,” the Gossip Girl star jokes in the May issue of Allure, on newsstands April 21. “I don’t know, I’m … large? They put me in six-inch heels, and I tower over every man. I’ve got this long hair and lots of clothes and makeup on.”

Blake On Coping With Fame: “People will recognize you much more on Fifth Avenue. It’s strange that you’ll be somewhere for five minutes, and then all of a sudden there are paparazzi outside.”

Blake On Her Romance With G.G. Co-Star Penn Badgley: “You see people who will open up their relationships, who are very affectionate on the red carpet or are doing a reality show with each other, and their relationship just seems to crumble. So I decided to keep a vow of silence.”

Why Blake Avoids The Color Pink: “I’m blonde, and I have a small dog, so I try to avoid looking like a piece of bubble gum as much as possible…”