Blake Lively covers the new issue of Allure. It occurred to me over the weekend: Blake Lively and Scarlett Johansson are hitting separate promotional trails at the same time. ScarJo, Ryan Reynolds’ first wife, is promoting The Avengers: Age of Ultron. Blake, Ryan’s second wife, is promoting The Age of Adeline. Which “Age” will be victorious? Um, I think we all know the answer to that. Anyway, these Allure photos are beautiful. I like Blake’s hair a little darker like this. Here are some highlights from the interview:
Her work on Gossip Girl: “People loved it, but it always felt a little personally compromising—you want to be putting a better message out there. The lines become blurred. It doesn’t help when everybody is dating who they’re dating on the show, and you’re also saying to the costume designer, ‘Hey, can I take that home?’ It’s a weird thing when people feel like they know you really well, and they don’t. I would not be proud to be the person who gave someone the cocaine that made them overdose and then shot someone and slept with someone else’s boyfriend.”
Announcing her pregnancy on Preserve: “That was my way of owning that moment. I can’t be someone like Beyoncé and be like— [Lively mimes Beyonce’s mic-drop] – but it was important for us. It was a struggle, because we want to keep our privacy, but we also don’t want our lives to be exploited by other people. So we did it simply; it was a quiet way, an elegant way.”
Breastfeeding: “It’s a full-time job. I’m, like, driving down the road, pumping.”
The idea of “having it all”: “Most of the things I do are all-consuming, but somehow I find a way to do it all. It’s not having it all; it’s about doing it all but it’s dangerous to dilute that to a catchphrase. Having it all could be having a happy, healthy family, and you could be a mom who stays at home, and that is the most admirable thing you could do. Or it could be having a profession that you really believe in, and not having a family, and doing what fulfills you. If it’s not a part of a conversation with someone face-to-face, those bites are why women tear each other apart or why the media will tear people apart.”
Juggling motherhood with career: “I look at the big picture. Most women don’t get that. There’s a lot of pressure on women to be a certain thing, and there are compromises you have to make. You don’t get to be with your family all the time; most women don’t. I don’t believe I have to choose—who says so? Who says we can’t do anything that we set our mind to? You may not be the best at it. You may not be the most successful. But you can try your best. That’s what having it all means to me—not letting anyone tell me no but myself.”
I rolled my eyes when Blake describes her own pregnancy announcement as “quiet and elegant.” Girl, you used your pregnancy to shill your lifestyle site!! As for Blake’s comments about having it all/doing it all and work/motherhood struggles, I know what she’s trying to say and I agree with her. I just think she could have taken the time to list more examples other than “the most admirable thing” of being a stay-at-home mom versus not having kids and working. There are more options than that! Which is what she was trying to say, she just fell into her own verbal trap.
Oh, and calling Gossip Girl “personally compromising”? Blake, don’t disrespect the show that made you a star.
Photos courtesy of Allure.
Way to bite the hand that fed you, Blake. I hated her character on the show and I can’t stand her irl. Chuck and Blair forever.
Blake is OK but she really needs to take a few seats. She became a fashion icon thanks to Gossip Girl.
As for the show being personally compromising. Uh it was a teen soap, not an Afterschool Special. Would she have preferred starring on Seventh Heaven?
I doubt Blake would’ve broken out without the scandal, smut and terrible messages of Gossip Girl. lol The series got terrible ratings but a ton of hype thanks to all the above. lol
@Angie. Good point. And its odd ever since OC and Gossip Girl, almost no other Josh Sahwartz’ teen dramas have caught fire.
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pssst…wake up and pay attention, Abbott. There’s a pop quiz later. Person with the highest score gets a free trip to a massage parlor.
gorgeous shoot. love her.
yeah. yeah. yeah, she’s vanilla, not that “good of an actress”, whatever.
still think she’s pretty genuine and beautiful.
I agree, LDUB. I like her! I bet she’s a good mother, too.
Me too.
And Blake actually never made any anti GG comments while she was on the show.
She was always respectful, so I don’t think she’ll decide to start deliberately shading it now.
Side note – Penn Badgely and Leighton Meester (I like both) never hid their contempt for it, by the later series. LOL
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+5
I wish Serena Van der Woodsen had been as interesting as Blake makes her sound here! Even when interesting things were happening on Gossip Girl Serena was being totally boring. Blair forever.
So much this. Serena was a mess and completely predictable. Queen B was everything.
@Shambles
Who was more messed up – Serena V Woodsen or BH 902010 Kelly Taylor??
Compromising what?? her Personal Time Husband Hunting in Hollywood or the Artisan bread Crafting time (massage massage massage that dough) ? or her Showing up to the opening of an envelope bedecked in Sugar plum fairy fashions of marchesa Or working her craft in so many Oscar Laureate movies??
Mama Please stop
her Personal Time Husband Hunting in Hollywood
LMAO! Loved this!
“Oh, and calling Gossip Girl “personally compromising”? Blake, don’t disrespect the show that made you a star.”
Seriously, the only reason she became a “style icon” was because she dressed like her character on the show.
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I didn’t understand this statement: ” I would not be proud to be the person who gave someone the cocaine that made them overdose and then shot someone and slept with someone else’s boyfriend.”
She’s acting, right? So what is she trying to say?
She made that statement as a way of elaborating on her earlier statement about GG promoting a pretty sh*tty message.
TBH, most teen dramas have borderline-awful messages, however that will never stop me from loving them.
I guess I just find it odd that she’d think we wouldn’t know the difference between Blake Lively and Serena van der Woodsen. Plus, she’s had to out weird stuff in her films too.
+1. Has she ever heard of Degrassi? Where every possible scenario you learned about in freshman health class comes true in one episode? That’s where Drake got his start, and his carefully curated artisanal lifestyle website seems to be doing just fine.
“The lines become blurred.” For a moment I read that wrong and thought she was owning up to mumbling all of her dialogue on GG.
Lol, I used to watch GG on Netflix while I was cooking every night and my husband hated her voice. He had no idea who it was but would always ask me if I had to watch the show with that annoying voice.
This rodent-like woman gets on my last nerve.
“I rolled my eyes when Blake describes her own pregnancy announcement as “quiet and elegant.” Girl, you used your pregnancy to shill your lifestyle site!! ”
Well said there Kaiser!
She always tries too hard.
I do not get why people like her. I didn’t watch her show, so maybe that is why I feel this way, but she is just so fu*king vanilla…
There is something about her that annoys the piss out of me.
Send help. My eyeballs rolled out of my head reading this. Goop-lite needs to get real.
lol @her dissing the show that is literally the only reason she was ever relevant in the first place. And she wasn’t even the best-dressed character on it, just the blondest. (actual best dressed was Blair).
An “elegant way.” Thanks for making me laugh, Blake. Do these people think before they speak?
Well, I was personally compromised by watching her plod lifelessly through the last couple of seasons of GG as if it were torture, so I guess we’re even.
I loved Gossip Girl. It was frothy fun when I had graduated college and could barely afford a can of cola after paying rent.
Girl, you banged Ben Affleck and Ryan Reynolds both married! Don’t act like you are morality incarnate!
That said, I threw out my Blake covered magazines. She sounds so VAPID and willfully oblivious- that show was escapist fun during a crap economy.
Yep. Says the girl who’s proudest accomplishment 2 years ago was “styling ” herself.
I don’t have strong feelings about her either way, although she’s too damn twee for me to read much about her in one sitting. However, if you’re SO focused on being private, Blake, I really don’t think you need to be sharing with us that you’re pumping while you’re driving. Lordy.
That’s right! She keeps talking of privacy and then mentions her husband here and there without even being asked!
And this quote?
“The May 2015 Allure cover girl recalled to the magazine that the first time she felt comfortable striking a pose next to her husband was at the 2014 Met Gala.”It was the first time we were ever on the red carpet together,” the new mom, 27, said of a photo of herself dolled up with Reynolds, 38, at last year’s Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala. “It was scary to put yourself out there like that, but then it also seems really silly to be standing five feet from each other and refusing to stand together. It’s always that tricky balance of keeping your privacy but then also not being absurd. And then there’s also that thing where you think, It would be nice for our kids to see a photo of Mommy and Daddy dressed up together.”
Yes, so you do a red carpet together for your future kids to see it……sure Miss Pretentious!
And exactly how long has Blake been juggling motherhood and work? A few months? And suddenly she has all the answers. She seriously needs to just be quiet.
Wow what a spazzy bitch, and she looks like she’s 35. Too bad, since I was actually contemplating seeing the Age of Adalind.
“I did NOT, however, let THAT compromise me from collecting the paycheck”.