Before I get into the whole protesting-parents thing, here is my girl Blake Lively on the cover of December’s Marie Claire. I kind of love that Blake has to get her boobs out even when she’s appearing on a magazine for women. These chicas today, I just don’t know. I guess I don’t mind it for Blake because her sexuality seems rather sweet and kittenish rather than the Megan Fox-style, in-your-face, “I’m too sexy for my director” vibe. Blake’s boobs are even out for most of the of other photos too (slideshow here). Oh, Blake. You don’t have to show your girls to everyone!

In the interview, Blake is kind of boring. She was even interviewed by her director (and wife of Daniel Day-Lewis) Rebecca Miller, who did The Lives of Pippa Lee. They talk about Blake’s Southern roots, her costars in the film (Julianne Moore is cool!) and how Blake “grew up in Disneyland”.

RM: What was your first day like on Pippa working with Maria Bello, who played your pill-popping mother? You had to face that tornado…
BL: I was honestly terrified. I hadn’t slept that much, and all I wanted that day was for Maria to say, “Wow, great job.” And when she didn’t say anything to me, I thought, Oh, my gosh, I’m terrible. She hates it. She’s calling her agent, saying, “What have you gotten me into?”

RM: [laughs] Maria was in character all day that day…
BL: But once we finished filming, she was so complimentary and sweet. The way Maria worked was very method, and then [costar] Julianne Moore was the complete opposite—between takes, she was a nice, normal mom talking about her kid’s baseball games. Then you would call “Action,” and suddenly she’s playing this creepo photographer! It freaked me out.

RM: Do you think of yourself as Southern, even though you grew up in L.A.? I think there’s a Southern girl lurking in you.
BL: I grew up in L.A., but I was the only one in my family born there. I have a tight-knit Southern family, so whenever I tell people I’m from L.A., they say, “Yeah, but you don’t count,” I guess because of the Southern values I was raised with, and the way I eat—the more sugary and cheesy and fried, the better.

RM: What’s your first memory?
BL: Oh, geez, I remember I was about 3 years old, and I woke up—we were staying at Disneyland. I was in a little pink silk bed, and there were Mickey and Donald and Goofy looking down at me. It was the most exciting place in the world. I kind of feel like I grew up at Disneyland.

RM: What do you mean, you grew up in Disneyland?
BL: My mom would take me there twice a week. I did well in school, so I guess my mom just wanted to have some extra time to bond with me. Sometimes, when I was older, she’d keep me out till 1 in the morning.

RM: [laughs] She would take you out of school and keep you out till 1 in the morning?
BL: We only stayed out late on weekends. We’d get a hotel room and then go to Denny’s, drink coffee, and talk for hours. I’ve always been a night owl. Even at home, we’d stay up all night talking. My mom tells the most amazing stories. In a way, she was kind of raising me to be a great actress without even realizing it.

RM: You went to 13 different schools growing up?
BL: I did. When I was only 3 years old, my mom enrolled me in the first grade. My older brother was supposed to start school, but he didn’t want to go alone, so my mom told them I was 6 since I was so tall. But after a few weeks, they said they would have to put me in mentally disabled classes because I wasn’t up to pace with the rest of the kids. They thought that I was slow because all I wanted to do was sleep while the other kids were doing their projects. [laughs] So my mom took me out of school.

[From Marie Claire]

Now, on to the protesting parents. Apparently, Gossip Girl has been airing promos for an upcoming episode – an episode that will feature a threesome (the ads say “3SOME”) allegedly starring Blake Lively and two other people (but that‘s not for sure about Blake). The Parents Television Council’s president Tim Winter calls the threesome “reckless and irresponsible” and the Council wants the CW affiliates to refuse to air the episode. Winter writes in a letter to affiliates: “Will you now be complicit in establishing a precedent and expectation that teenagers should engage in behaviors heretofore associated primarily with adult films? [This show] is expressly targeted to impressionable teenagers. CW has been defending graphic content on ‘Gossip Girl’ by asserting that they don’t target teenagers. Such a claim doesn’t even pass the ‘laugh test.'”

Unfortunately, the median age for a Gossip Girl viewer is 27 years old (seriously?), according to the CW’s data. Which means that there are lots of adult ladies who have girl-crushes on Blake too, right? It also means that PTC is getting their collective threesome-hating granny panties in a wad over nothing. I mean, sure, threesomes are (maybe) a bad idea for random, dumb teenagers. But by making a big deal about a television show’s threesome, you’re just fetishizing it and making it even more desirable amongst horny, dumb teenagers. Way to go, parents.

Photos from Marie Claire, where there are many more, and thanks to Cover Awards for the cover