The best-kept celebrity secrets of all time
Hollywood is notorious for its secrets that seem to come out one way or another.
But sometimes, even the world's most famous people are able to keep their private matters close to their chest.
Read on for some of the best-kept celebrity secrets of all time.
Though she is known for her role as the glamorous Blair Waldorf in Gossip Girl, her real life was anything but.
The star threw a curveball when she belatedly revealed her early life was steeped in crime, long after she broke through with her TV role.
Meester was born in prison as her mother carried out a federal prison sentence for being part of a major drug ring in Texas.
Her mother, grandfather, father and her aunt were all sentenced to jai in 1983 for smuggling a 544kg shipment of marijuana out of Jamaica.
Her aunt made history as the first woman in the to join the US Marshals' 15 Most Wanted List after escaping from prison.
Meester has since distanced herself from her family, marrying actor Adam Brody in 2014 and having two children with him.
For someone as prevalent in the media as Kylie Jenner, fans found it odd when she slipped off the radar in 2017.
Rumours continued to swirl of a pregnancy, but the then-20-year-old kept her mouth shut and herself out of the public eye for a full year.
To avoid giving the secret away, Jenner would wear big T-shirts out in public and would use a blanket to cover herself when modeling lingerie.
In February 2018, she finally revealed her first baby after a year shrouded in secrecy in a video titled "To Our Daughter" which documented her pregnancy, which only her family and close friends knew about.
She managed to do the same a few years later for her pregnancy with her son Aire, born 2022.
This was cemented by an odd final scene together, which was later revealed to have been shot separately, with the actresses put next to each other with the use of green screen.
If you look closely, neither actor looks the other in the eyes, and they never cross over an imaginary line down the centre of the shot.
It has never been revealed why the stars had such a falling out that they couldn't even be in the same room together, even almost a decade on from the finale.
One of the greatest mysteries in Hollywood is that of the parentage of actress January Jones's son, Xander.
After his birth in 2011, the actress has stayed mum on who the father is, rebuking any attempt to pry into her son's personal life.
Once after being asked about it, she snapped, "That's my son's business. It's not the public's business."
With Xander now turning 14 years old, Jones is enjoying her time raising him while keeping him private.
In a conversation with Red magazine in 2017, the Mad Men actress stated that her privacy, and by extension that of Xander's, was her priority.
She also revealed a bit about how he is being brought up, with whoever his father is seemingly not in the picture.
"It's good to have strong women around a man to teach him to respect women," she said.
"He doesn't have a male person in his life saying, 'Don't cry' or, 'You throw like a girl'. All those [expletive] things dads accidentally do.
"It's like in a Spielberg movie. The adults have more drinks and the kids are dirtier… but it's safe. Photographers don't follow us up there [in their gated California community], so Xander has a pretty normal life now."
Another celebrity who has kept her children's paternity a secret is Mindy Kaling.
Since first revealing her surprise pregnancy with her daughter in 2017, Kaling has kept us on our toes when it came to her children's births.
After her daughter Katherine Swati, seven, and son Spencer Avu, four, the actress quietly revealed on her own birthday in June 2024 that she had quietly welcomed her third child, a daughter named Anne, in February 2024.
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