Why Did ‘Gossip Girl’ Alum Blake Lively Suffer From Depression?

“Gossip Girl” alum Blake Lively recently admitted to suffering from depression after she Googled herself.

During an interview for Variety’s Power of Women NY cover shoot, the actress responded to seven never-before-asked questions about herself. One of those questions had to do with Lively Googling herself. “I have before and it just ended in full depression. So I think it’s a good rule of thumb not to Google yourself because the Internet is not nice,” she said.

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Even though Lively is discouraging everyone from Googling themselves, the actress wants to use the World Wide Web to help stop the distribution of child pornography. “There are millions of files all over the world being traded every single day of child pornography. It’s disturbing. A lot of these people are fathers,” she said.

Meanwhile, Lively also shared that her mom, Elaine, is her biggest inspirationl. The “Shallows” actress is especially amazed at the fact that Elaine was able to balance her career with raising five children. Lively, and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, have two kids, James, 2, and Inez, 6 months.

“My mom was really great because my mom had a career and had five kids. It was a lot of mute or covering the phone because we were screaming in the background while she was trying to work. Don’t compromise one for the other. You can do both fantastically, and some day you’ll do both horribly. As long as you’re happy and give your family all the love and attention they need, it all sort of falls into place,” she said.