Taylor Momsen Slipped Into Her ‘Grinch’ Cindy Lou Who Costume From 2000 and It Was a Who-ot!

Good on ya if you can still fit into an outfit from 25 years ago! Taylor Momsen gave it a shot this week when she pulled her old Cindy Lou Who costume from 2000’s Ron Howard-directed How the Grinch Stole Christmas starring Jim Carrey as the Grinch and Momsen as the six-year-old girl who tries to remind the residents of Whoville about the real meaning of Christmas.

In a video of the try-on, Momsen, topless, with a white ruffled underskirt around her waist, gets help from stylist Lindsey Hartman in painstakingly sliding the red, white and green costume on over her arms. When the top finally slides over her head a voice off camera says, “oh my God! Stop!,” as Momsen smiles and laments that her arms are “too jacked” now to fit into the tiny sleeves she wore as a seven-year-old.

After fussing around trying to get the costume up over her shoulders, Momsen, 32, decides to just let it rest on chest, with Hartman pinning it together in the back to make it a strapless number. We are then transported to a studio where Momsen kneels of her knees in the costume — complete with the sparkly red cape, pink mittens, big Christmas cookie appliques and oversized snowflakes on her bleach blonde hair — as she smiles in the promo shoot for her re-recording of the song “Where Are You Christmas?”

“Yes…that is my real Cindy costume from the Grinch movie 🥰 25 years later…it still (kind of) fits 🤣 what a surreal holiday season #whereareyouchristmas,” Momsen wrote in the caption to the video. Back in October, Momsen re-recorded the movie’s the song she originally performed as Cindy Lou in the film, “Where Are You Christmas” (co-written by Mariah Carey) for the Taylor Momsen’s Pretty Reckless Christmas EP, which also featured the original songs “Christmas Is Killing Me,” “Christmas, Why Can’t I Find You?” and “I Wanna Be Your Christmas Tree.”

Momsen recently told Spin magazine that years of trying to ignore one of her most iconic child actress roles, she finally learned how to embrace it recently after years of running away from and “hating” her part in the holiday classic. “It all led to here,” she told the magazine. “And I love here… learning to love that again in a new way, in a new perspective, I think it’s really special.” After avoiding the song for decades, back in 2020 during the COVID-19 lockdown she and the Pretty Reckless finally decided to perform the song, five years before releasing it on this year’s EP.

She also reunited with the movie’s star, Carrey, at the Nov. 8 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, where Momsen performed with Soundgarden during their inauguration following Carrey’s predictably high-energy induction speech. “The entire experience was absolutely insane, kismet, universally aligned, mind-blowing and amazing,” Momsen said of their reunion.