Almost every Christmas, a movie breaks onto TV screens How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Next to the green, grumpy mosh is also a cute little girl, Cindy Lou, played by the then five-year-old actress Taylor Momsen. Her kindness touched the audience and saved Christmas.
Taylor has grown up, noticed to become a sought-after photo model and TV series Intriguing star, and has been known as rock bands for many years now The Pretty Retty participant. Exactly music turned out to be his heart’s calling. Seeing her on stage, few would think that this curvy beauty is the same Cindy Lou who made the Grinch fall in love with the most beautiful holiday of the year.
Momsen grew up in a religious family and studied at a Catholic school. She stood out with an angelic appearance from an early age. When the girl was two years old, her parents signed a contract with a prestigious modeling agency Ford Models. Already in 1997, she filmed in the famous Shake N’ Bake in the advertisement, which allowed others to notice the baby’s talent.
Later, in interviews, Taylor admitted that her parents’ decision had a negative impact on her childhood. She had no friends because she spent all her free time working at the agency.
“I didn’t have a real life,” Momsen said.
“I can be myself in music. Play bad is simple. I have been doing it for a long time and I love it very much. But in cinema you play others, not yourself. Music is much more personal because you create it yourself,” said Taylor. Her band’s debut album Light Me Up came out 15 years ago, and in 2011, Taylor took the stage with Evanescence. Later Revolver Golden Awards performed a song with Marilyn Manson The Dope Show.
Momsen is now 32 years old, and her life has not been as bright and carefree as Christmas time. In 2017, she experienced a big emotional upheaval – Taylor’s close friend, record producer Kato Kandavala, died. Taylor fell into depression, became addicted to alcohol and later drugs. Music helped to get out of the hole. Momsen put her experiences into an album that came out in 2021 – Death by Rock and Roll.
