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It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.

One of my motivations in life is to be a billionaire.

I had immense ambition to become a really valuable actress.

I became a cover girl and an editorial model, and then I became a runway model.

As a kid, I harbored this fantasy of starting a company. I looked at the entrepreneur column in Forbes. I looked at it every month and thought, 'I want to be that guy.'

My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypical rich, air-headed heiresses. These were my friends. They were smart and multifaceted. They had interests and passions. They wanted to become lawyers and doctors and writers and filmmakers.

I've become a captive of my own ambitions.

I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!