Gossip Girl's Taylor Momsen, 16, wears stripper heels, bustier and suspenders as she smokes illegally on stage
From her stripper heels, complete with dollar notes inside, to her lack of clothing, heavy make-up and illicit cigarette, Taylor Momsen seems intent on shocking.
In a provocative outfit entirely unsuitable for a 16-year-old, she showed off nearly every inch of her body as she danced around the stage yesterday with her rock band The Pretty Reckless.
At one point Taylor smoked a cigarette onstage, despite being two years beneath the legal age for both smoking and buying cigarettes in California.
Breaking the rules: Gossip Girl star Taylor Momsen lights up at the Warped Tour in California; at 16 she is legally too young to smoke in the state
Revealing: Taylor is the face of British store New Look, a favourite with teens
Taylor, who is the face of British clothing store New Look, was performing at the Warped Tour at the Ventura County Fairgrounds in Ventura.
Stripper shoes: The perspex heels say 'tips' and have dollar notes inside
The teen obviously intended to look like a stripper with her perspex six-inch heels labelled 'tips' with a gap for putting dollars inside.
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Her transparent studded bustier was barely hooked, revealing her underwear beneath, while her dark make-up and bleached extensions were reminiscent of Courtney Love.
Even taking into account the need to dress up for the stage, her outfit seemed over the top.
Sweet 16: Taylor was performing with her rock band The Pretty Reckless
On the set of Gossip Girl, in character as Jenny Humphrey
This isn't the first time Taylor has made an effort to shock.
In an interview with Britain's Metro newspaper she recently told how she has a knife collection and 'relaxes' by opening and closing a switchblade.
She said: 'I have a knife collection. I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade.
'It relaxes me to flick it. I close it and open it.'
Perhaps Taylor is keen to replicate the headlines her fellow teen Miley Cyrus has generated with her revealing stage outfits recently.
Miley, 17, shocked family audiences by simulating a kiss with a female dancer onstage in Britain's Got Talent, although she later denied this had been her intention.
Taylor was born in St Louis, Missouri, where she attended a Catholic school, before moving to Maryland.
She finished her schooling in New York, at the Professional Performing Arts High School (P.P.A.S), on which the hit 80s musical Fame was loosely based.
As a child she starred as the rosy-cheeked Cindy Lou Who in How The Grinch Stole Christmas. She now plays Jenny Humphrey in Gossip Girl.
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