Blake Lively, who has carved out her place as a modern day “It Girl” thanks to her work on The CW series Gossip Girl, is gracing the December 2008 cover of W Magazine.

In the interview,on newsstands November 25, the 21-year-old star gets candid about her off-screen romance with Gossip Girl’s on-screen misfit, Penn Badgley, and rumors of a “feud” between her co-star Leighton Meester.

“The media is always trying to pit us against each other,” Blake says. “I guess because it’s just not interesting to say, ‘Everyone gets along, everybody just works 18-hour days and goes home to sleep.’ That’s not fun to read I guess.”