Is Blake going bare for Playboy?

Gossip Girl star Blake Lively is hoping to heat up her career with a saucy nude pictorial on the pages of Playboy Magazine. Lively — who made a splash on the big screen in The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants I & II — wants to shed her squeaky-clean image by shedding her undies for The House That Hef Built, gossip boxes reveal in the Feb. 22 issue of The National Enquirer. (So let’s take this with a grain of salt!)

“Playboy had already been calling her — she figures a Playboy spread now will really give her some heat in her career,” a spywitness squealed to the tab.

We hear the 22-year-old beauty is demanding a whopping $2.5 million to strip down — a move that has divided Blake’s tight-knit family.

“Blake’s mom has been in the business a long time and knows Kim Basinger and other actresses really benefited from posing for Playboy early in their careers,” The Enquirer’s source explained. “But her dad Ernie is old-school. He says, ‘Over my dead body.’”

Insiders say Blake — who plays NYC fashionista Serena Van der Woodsen on The CW’s R-rated teen drama Gossip Girl — considers the potential Playboy deal Step One in her plan to break away from the teen scene and attract more mature roles.

“The show has been hit with teens, but she says she doesn’t want to get lumped in with The Jonas Brothers. Posing nude would certainly distance her from her tween fans and put her in the adult world.”

The leggy stunner was recently cast as Ryan Reynolds love interest, Carol Ferris, in the upcoming superhero blockbuster The Green Lantern.

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