Chyler Leigh is turning heads with a glamorous new look. The Grey’s Anatomy alum stepped in front of the camera for a striking black-and-white photo shoot with Grey Magazine, embracing timeless Hollywood glamour on the streets of New York and leaving fans in awe of her unrecognizable appearance
“Just a New York Minute,” she captioned a carousel of stunning photos from the magazine shoot.
The comments section filled up fast, and the love poured in. “ETHEREAL. GODDESS. SPELLBINDING. 5000/10. Well done to all involved,” one fan gushed.
Others piled on the praise, calling the spread “Incredible!! Amazing!!” and writing, “You’re absolutely stunning!!!!”
Many zeroed in on the timeless, vintage feel of the shoot. “Old school glamor & beauty, so classy & stunning,” one wrote, while another summed up the nostalgia in three words: “Lexie all grown up.”
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From “OMG ! Chyler you are so beautiful !” to “You look fantastic!!,” the message was unanimous, and the fire emojis were flying.
Long before she won over fans with Hallmark Channel’s The Way Home, Leigh won over a generation of viewers as Dr. Lexie Grey on Grey’s Anatomy, the bright, big-hearted little sister at the center of one of the show’s most cherished romances.
Her on-and-off love story with Mark Sloan, played by Eric Dane, became must-watch television. That connection is on Leigh’s mind these days.
Months after Dane’s death at 53, she’s still holding tight to the memories they made together, even as she admits there’s one moment she wishes had gone differently. Speaking with Pop Culture Brain, Leigh said she remains “really bummed about” a missed chance to reunite with Dane when both briefly returned for the show’s season 17 dream sequence.
That now-iconic finale moment found Meredith Grey, played by Ellen Pompeo, drifting into a vision of a sunlit beach where she reunited with Lexie and Mark while battling COVID-19. On screen, the three appeared together. In reality, Leigh was nowhere near her co-stars.
“We were filming all during Covid, actual Covid, and I was filming Supergirl in Vancouver,” she explained. “I couldn’t go down to be there because I would have had to quarantine [for] two weeks coming back into Vancouver.”
With no time to leave one set, quarantine, and reach the other, Leigh shot her part of the beach scene alone, acting opposite a green screen. “If there’s anything that I regret, it would be not having been able to do that,” she said.
When Leigh looks back on the good times, one scene rises to the top. “There’s one scene where Lexie is kind of choosing between Jackson and Mark and he comes in and he just gives her this moment where you see Jackson in the background and she really does have to choose,” Leigh recalled.
“I don’t know what it is about kissing, but it was a really deep moment. And you just kind of see the sparkle leave her eyes, you know? That was so up and down.” She didn’t stop there. “I could pick a million [memories]. He was a wonderful human being,” she said in the candid interview.
Dane died in February after a battle with ALS, a loss that shook the Grey’s Anatomy family.