We were still recovering from New Year’s Eve when the gossip girls over at Radar reported that actress Blake Lively — who plays bad-girl-gone-good Serena van der Woodsen on the CW series “Gossip Girl,” chronicling the life and loves of annoyingly good-looking, wealthy and privileged New York City prepsters — didn’t always have such a spectacular profile.

According to Radar’s well-placed source, Lively, 20, had the rhinoplasty after filming wrapped on 2006’s “Accepted.” (Multiple calls and e-mails to Lively’s publicists asking for confirmation were not returned by the time of their posting, they said.)

But photos and old videos, well, they just do not lie. We were reminded of this when “Access Hollywood” unearthed an old clip of Blake, then 17, promoting the release of “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.” See the video here, and check out Blake’s newer, thinner, more refined nose, top right, at the 2008 Teen Choice Awards, compared to her old natural nob, top left, at the 2005 Teen Choice Awards.

On a more earth-shattering note, People is reporting that Lively, unlike her TV character, has “kissed just three people.”

“I’ve kissed just three people in my life, other than stuff that I’ve done for TV or movies,” she says. “I know — I’m weird!”

Do we believe her? I mean, first the quietly executed nose job. Now this information about a practically non-existent love life? We’re a little suspicious

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