Actors Leighton Meester and Adam Brody were respective teen stars in their own right – Meester best known for playing Blair Waldorf on Gossip Girl and Brody as Seth Cohen on The O.C.
Then in 2014, Meester and Brody surprised the world and married each another, and have since welcomed two children. And according to Brody, it was love at first sight.
"When I saw her... yeah, I was smitten instantly," The O.C. alum recently told Meester's Gossip Girl co-star Penn Badgley on his podcast, Podcrushed.
"And I was, you know, smitten for a long time."
But it wasn't a picture-perfect romance from the beginning. Because, while Brody may've been taken with Meester when the pair first collided in the mid-2000s, he assumed the actor would be just like her Gossip Girl 'Queen B' character – a vindictive, spoilt mean-girl teen.
"I didn't get to know her for many years after, even though we even worked together briefly," he told Badgley.
Here's everything we know about the couple, including Meester's challenging childhood, how they first met and all that has happened since.
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