“I wanted a Harry Winston choker for my birthday. Instead I got a conscience.”

Bitch please. There is no better method in which to describe the entire person that is Blair Waldorf from the CW’s Gossip Girl. Her character can be entirely rolled up within the above mentioned quotation: sarcastic, entitled, domineering, opinionated, conniving, but altogether thoughtful, sympathetic, and impassioned. There are moments within the series where you cannot help but be shocked by her gall, however you find yourself dwelling upon her own sense of near perfect audacity.

And she has it. In spades. That is what makes her character so affecting to the average person, never mind her refined taste in fashion, something that the production has focused greatly upon. Since then, Blair Waldorf has been named one of the best dressed characters on television.

When I first started watching this show five years ago, Blair stood away from the crowd. The immediate thought that this woman would captivate the show’s general audience was without any doubt from its inception. We have learned that she is an epic overachiever with a careful yet careless flare at discharging whomever she wants, whatever way she wants. She became the impeccable mix of all of the qualities listed above, but has also spent the last five years maturing from the naive girl she was at Constance to the woman she is becoming at Columbia University. Granted, she will always scheme and meddle, alter alliances between friends and lovers, but she is slowly allowing her future plans to take precedence over the very petty issues that once seemed paramount to her.

Above all, I think, her relationship with Chuck Bass has even vaulted her forward in terms of learning who she will one day become. The trials the couple have come to face since season one have been grueling to all the viewers who are fans of “Chair,” myself included. That strength her character possesses only increased tenfold when she was with Chuck. He remained her consistent reminder that she was indeed Blair Cornelia Waldorf and could achieve whatever goals she set her sights upon. The fact that her transfer into Columbia was propagated by him speaks volumes about what he believed she was capable of doing with her life, including leaving him. Since then, she has taken all of it in stride and focused upon the forthcoming of her reality, even if it has been without the love affair she had with Bass. However, I cannot even say that I believe that the affair is over. No, I believe it was just a stepping stone to a much larger picture.

She may be everything that people despise about, well, people, but we cannot help but find an affinity and a love for her. She has a wicked tendency to sink those fangs of hers in and dispense her very own brand of poison that we simply enjoy.

To view some of her memorable moments, click here.