This won't do much to quieten her critics: Gun toting Taylor Momsen poses in lingerie for Revolver magazine

By Daily Mail Reporter
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Seems that even though she's only 17 she's already a veteran when it comes to courting controversy.

Taylor Momsen often takes heat for her overtly sexy look and choice of clothing and her latest magazine cover will do nothing to quieten the critics.

The Gossip Girl actress poses, holding a rifle and a hand gun, with her usual thick black eye make-up and with her over-bleached blonde hair cascading around her shoulders, clad in lace topped black stockings and suspenders and barely there lingerie.

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Courting controversy: Seventeen-year-old Taylor Momsen strips off to her underwear and totes a couple of guns on the November issue of Revolver

Topping off her entirely age-inappropriate ensemble the teenager teeters on some sky-high stripper style perspex and patent heels.

Momsen glares at the camera with her regular contrived bored teenager sneer, with the rifle slung over her shoulder and handgun pointing to the floor.

The star loves to play-up her 'dangerous' 'edgy' image,  admitting during interviews to everything from owning a vibrator to carrying a knife - apparently she 'relaxes by opening and closing a switchblade'.

And she gives little thought to the parents worried that she could be a negative influence on impressionable teenage daughters.

'To be honest, I don’t f****** care,' she said in an interview earlier this year.

'I didn’t get into this to be a role model. So I'm sorry if I’m influencing your kids in a way that you don’t like, but I can’t be responsible for their actions. I don’t care.'

Lourdes Leon, actress Taylor Momsen and singer Madonna attend the

Oh such wild girls: Momsen, the face of the Material Girl labels poses with co-creators, Madonna and Lourdes at the Macy's New York launch in September

And it's not only her clothing choices and image that have come under fire.

Project Runway star Tim Gunn slammed the actress after appearing on the set of Gossip Girl recently, branding her an unprofessional brat.

When asked about working with the teen, he said: 'What a diva! She was pathetic, she couldn't remember her lines, and she didn't even have that many.

'I thought to myself, "Why are we all being held hostage by this brat?"

'I'd say: "You know young lady, there are hundreds of thousands of girls who are just as attractive and even smarter than you. Why are you acting like this show is a huge burden on you?"

'She was on her phone during every break, I wanted to tell her, "If you weren't on your BlackBerry, you could retain this stuff"'

Laid bare: Momsen strips down to her underwear in the video then walks towards a burning structure while singing the angst-ridden single

Shy and retiring type: Momsen strips down to her underwear yet again, this time for the video to her new angst ridden song from her band Pretty Reckless

The actress / singer has been modelling since she was 14, when she was signed to the top agency, IMG Models.

It was revealed in July that she had been chosen as the face of Madonna's clothing line Material Girl, that she produces with daughter Lourdes and sells exclusively through U.S. department store Macy's.

The former child star recently revealed that she fired her stylist as she felt they were dressing her too conservatively and wholesome.

She says she now makes all her own style choices, something she feels allows her to fully express her creative side.

She told MTV: 'I think firing my stylist has allowed me to be more free.

'I was getting moulded into this thing that wasn’t who I am.'

The star, who also fronts her own band, The Pretty Reckless, explained that she dresses for herself, rather than to be provocative, and likens choosing her clothes to dressing her doll collection.

'I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.

'I still wear pieces from when I was in f*****g middle school,' she added - which, given her age, wasn't all that long ago.

Taylor Momsen and Matthew Settle on the set of Gossip Girl filming in Brooklyn New York City.Thigh highs: Momsen, filming Gossip Girl in New York last week with Matthew Settle is particularly fond of wearing thigh high boots and very short skirts



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