The latest steamy Maxim cover features Lacey Chabert, former child star, now 31. She also starred in "Mean Girls."

Lacey Chabert is still remembered by many for her memorable role as Claudia Salinger on "Party Of Five." She was a late bloomer, but has grown up 'with a vengeance.' She was also starstruck by Leonardo diCaprio.

In an interview with The Hollywood Gossip, she shares the difficulty of growing up on screen.

You've grown up a lot since Party of Five. What was it like being an awkward teen on national television?
"I had to go through everything on that show - my first kiss, my first bra. I was 11 when it started and a late bloomer. They wrote an episode about how I'm changing in the locker room in junior high and all the other girls have bras, but I'm just in a little undershirt, so I get a Wonderbra and stuff it. I had a fitting to figure out what they'd stuff my bra with - tissue, silicone, padding. For a week everyone analyzed how I looked with boobs and said maybe I should grow some one day."

Looks like you took that advice to heart.
"Yeah, when they finally arrived, they came with a vengeance."

Your character on the show, Claudia, was such a goody two-shoes. Did you ever want her to cut loose?
"In the last two seasons, I was drinking and smoking, all those teen things. There was one scene where I was supposed to be drunk, and in the hair-and-makeup trailer beforehand they gave me a glass of red wine. I was 17, and I'm pretty strait-laced, so I'd never had a drink before. I held my nose and just downed it. I got so drunk I couldn't remember my dialogue. After the scene everyone applauded! I don't think anyone knew the truth. I actually got sick the next day just from that and haven't cared for alcohol since."

On Leonardo diCaprio: "He was the first person who ever made me completely speechless. I had a huge crush on him when I was 14. I was coming back to the Four Seasons after the premiere of my first movie, Lost in Space, and he was in the elevator. I was silent all the way up to the 18th floor. When he got out I started crying, I was so overwhelmed. "