Taylor Momsen Blames Parents For Bad Attitude

Taylor Momsen's not your typical 17-year-old.

The Gossip Girl star and Pretty Reckless singer has raised plenty of eyebrows with her foul-mouthed rants against Hollywood, super-skimpy Gothic wardrobe and other angry, age-inappropriate antics. (She's been snapped smoking cigarettes and recently flashed her breasts to a concert crowd.)

What's her problem?

"Everyone's like, 'Wow, why is she upset, and why is she so miserable about things?'" the blonde, kohl-eyed actress tells the November-December issue of Revolver mag. (On the cover, the lingerie-clad teen brandishes two guns.)

Explains Momsen: "My parents signed me up with Ford [Modeling] at the age of 2. No 2-year-old wants to be working, but I had no choice."

Momsen was 7 when she broke out as a kid star, playing Cindy Lou Who in How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

"My whole life, I was in and out of school," Momsen continues. "I didn't have friends. I was working constantly and I didn't have a real life."

Credit: Us Magazine

Taylor Momsen Wrote Heidi Montag's 'Blackout'

Taylor Momsen is a successfull actress and musician now, but way back when she was just 8 years old, she wrote a song titled 'Blackout.' This coincidentally is one of the tracks on Heidi Montag's 'Superficial' - the album that sold just 658 copies in its first week of release.

This is what she had to say in Revolver Magazine's "Hottest Chicks in Hard Rock" issue:

“I wrote a pop song [called ‘Blackout’ when I was 8] and recorded it with a producer as a demo. Heidi Montag from ‘The Hills’ just recently sang it and put it out as her single [laughs]. I’m like, OK, dude, you’re singing an 8-year-old’s words, but that’s cool,” she said. “It’s so funny because I didn’t shop it or anything and I get this call going, ‘Did you write a song for Heidi Montag?’ and I’m like ‘What?’’’