Blake Lively covers the July issue of Marie Claire to promote The Shallows, or the movie about Blake Lively on a rock, with bonus shark. Blake has been somewhat quiet since her explosion of unfortunate quotes and interviews at the Cannes Film Festival last month. Considering the lack of baby-bump in the Marie Claire photo below, I think this whole editorial and interview was done several months back, before Blake was showing and before journalists thought to ask her “so, what do you really think about Woody Allen?” What I’m saying is that she doesn’t address her problematic statements about Woody Allen in this piece. Here are some highlights:
On family being the number one thing in her life: “All my eggs are in one basket, and that’s where my heart is. That’s where my everything is.”
Why she wanted to marry Ryan Reynolds: “I knew he would always be my best friend for my whole life. That was the biggest thing to me. I’d never known anything like the friendship that I had with him. I could like him as much as I loved him.”
On the paparazzi and her daughter: “I’d rather not have to deal with it at all, but we knew the lifestyle we were getting into, and while it’s hard…it’s another thing when it’s our child. She didn’t have the opportunity to make a decision about what she wants.”
On not wanting to be involved in the entertainment industry like her family: “I didn’t want to be an actor, because they were all doing it. When you’re the youngest of five kids, you think, Who am I? If this is who they are, and they’re shaping who I am so much, then who would I be? You strive for your own identity.”
On raising her children: “Ryan had a nice, normal upbringing, and we want our kids to have the same normal life that we had. We don’t ever want to rob them of what we had, because we’d feel really selfish.”
Her daughter James: “[She] looked like his doppelgänger for the first six months,” but now, she says, has finally picked up some of her features. Namely, “she has my clammy hands! And my heavy eyelids, my meaty eyelids.”
“Meaty eyelids”?? I didn’t even know that was a thing. I’ve never heard anyone describe anyone’s eyelids as “meaty.” Heavy-lidded, yes, of course. But meaty? Hm. As for all of the nice things she says about Ryan Reynolds, for whatever reason, I think they’re the real deal. I think they adore each other and they’re a good team and they’ll probably be married forever (hopefully). As for the comments about the paparazzi… I was going to “O RLY?” her, but really, she and Ryan haven’t conveniently pap-strolled with the baby or used her strategically. While Blake might famewhore herself, she protects her kid.
Photos courtesy of Beau Grealy/Marie Claire.
I think her and Ryan are the real deal too. I’d be shocked if they broke up.
(Then again, I also thought Ben and Jen would last forever…)
@LannisterForever Ben & Jen will last forever in one way or another, or they will get together again or they will never split.
I used to side eyed them but they’ve proved me wrong. Good for them!
I think so too. Both seem very unpretentious to me, well except for that “curated” website of hers.
LOL why though? He only married her because he knocked her up. He stuck around for 10 years bc his own father was a loser who abandoned the family and he didn’t want to repeat his mistakes. He’s cheated on her for years and their last kid was a band-aid baby. He’s been looking at her like a sister/roommate for ages. They were doomed from the start. Blake and Ryan, though, I do believe they are the real deal and will stay together for longer. But who knows with these celebs…?
I think they’e the real deal as well. I particularly like what she said about liking him as much as loving him.
Hope little James doesn’t inherit her acting skills.
Nice cover.
I’m interested in reading the full interview.
I do find it odd that she says “Ryan had a nice normal upbringing”
and not “WE had a nice normal upbringing”
I noticed that, too, but she comes from a showbiz family so she probably didn’t.
me toooo
Me four. I liked what she had to say.
And I have seen some pics of their little girl. And dunno about her eyelids but James has the most gorgeous blue eyes.
I noticed that too. But wait. Her parents are showbiz? I thought she said once upon a time that her father was an “English professor”? Did I read that wrong? Wasn’t it on Preserve or something? As the daughter of an actual professor, I’m offended she thought she could lie about that. Getting a Ph.D. is not as easy as you think, lady.
Oh yeah, that always bothered me too, so I looked it up. Her dad was an actor on Dukes of Hazzard, and then became an acting coach. In Blake’s wee mind, apparently that’s the same as an English professor.
@KHLBHL
He taught English at Berkely.
But I dunno about being a professor.
And her mum was an acting coach/manager.
SO then the eyelids are the only feature original to mommy’s face?
Ah haha i came here to ask if she had inherited mom’s original nose
Funny she said that about the kid having her heavy eyelids – has she seen pics of Ryan Reynolds before his plastic surgery? He had major heavy hooded eyes. Looked vaguely indigenous as some in Canada often are. So their kid could have gotten them from either one or both. I suggest she visit the old Reynolds homestead and pour through the family albums…get to know her husband. Lol
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/fe/82/f3/fe82f3b287f1c04a0432938ae36d0ea4.jpg
Before ps
https://cherylyoung.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/91.jpg
After
http://www.celebritydiagnosis.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/ryan-reynolds.jpg
Wow, almond milk… I had no idea he looked so different. Sad (but understandable) that he felt the need to make his face look more neutrally Caucasian.
Oh, that’s interesting. I used to think Reynolds was really cute, but somewhere along the line he just started looking so bland and generic. That explains it!
I think somebody should do a comprehensive piece on male plastic surgery in Hollywood. We keep hearing about the girls but a lot of these guys look nothing like their pre-fame selves.
Looks like a nose job too!
He looked waaaay better pre-surgery. Funny to say I have as well heavy eyelids but never would describe them as meaty.
i hope james doesn’t inherit her bland and ignorant personality
This photoshoot was done well before Cannes indeed, like in mid march (see her hair stylist Rod Ortega IG).
She bugs me, always has, but these quotes were sweet.
I never met a baby who didn’t seem to have fairly heavy eyelids, maybe because they sleep so much.
I have naturally hooded eyelids like she does. I hate them- they ruin the look of most eye make up since you can’t even see it and they also age the face faster. I can get why she would say meaty though. They are. I have actually used that term before, however now seeing it in print and thinking about it, Yuck. Why would I say that? Lol. Cringe.
I have hooded lids and I basically take the shadow above the “crease” to create a new crease. But I blend very well and smokey eyes look great on hooded lids. Cat eye is harder but I’ve figured out how to do that as well. My fear is as I get older they will droop over my actual eyes! Lol
That happened to my mom and I’m guessing it will happen to me. She had the eyelid surgery and is so happy with how her vision is so much better. She’s self conscious that she looks different but I think she looks exactly the same, just a little less tired.
@Jezi:
I’ve seen your pics on Twitter. Your makeup always looks great!
Yes, they possibly will droop like that. Once it affects vision (primarily peripheral) then the surgery is usually recommended and covered by insurance. I’ve already started looking into it lol.
Thanks @Claire I work really hard at perfecting my makeup. It’s an obsession and a slight addiction. Lol! I’m glad to know the surgery is covered. I will most likely be needing that.
Same. And they are meaty. You feel like you have a ton of extra skin up there. And they just get droopier as you age. I’ve already started checking with my optometrist on the likelihood of surgery. It’s covered by my insurance so I hope she signs off on it eventually! It’d be super fun to have my eyes open back up a little bit!
people with hooded eyes (namely Caucasian people) it could help to look how makeup techniques of Asian/Asiatic or Indigenous women…. they have a less deepset/wide eye and their makeup can look flawless….
its not a bad thing….you have a whole race/ethic group of people who rock the hell out of it and you can too 🙂
Black people can have hooded eyes as well… Ethnicity isn’t really a factor.
I’ve always considered those types of eye so adorable and beautiful!! When I was younger I wanted to have them so bad! Hhaha Now I’m happy with my mexican eyes but still think they are very cute.
I absolutely love the “heavy-hooded” eye look in both men and women. A couple examples that come to mind are Jennifer Lawrence and Joseph Gordon Levitt. So endearing and youthful (to me), especially on those two. *Le sigh*
Blake is an idiot. Her supposed “heavy” and “meaty” eyelids don’t even show when her eyes are open. That is pretty much the opposite of what she described.
Nope. It’s called “hooded eyelids”. The bane of makeup artists everywhere. She’s correct about this. Jennifer Lawrence and Taylor swift have hooded eyes too.
What is a meaty eyelid? Who thinks about their eyelids anyway? I’ve got a three-year-old at home and I couldn’t tell you what her eyelids look like other than…eyelids?
“Heavy-lidded?” This woman. For a good definition of “heavy-lidded” check out Javier Bardem. This woman annoys me almost as much as Kim K. What she has is no eye-lids and a prominent fat pad in the flesh of her eyebrows.
Yeah, I’m not seeing heavy lids either.
I can’t stand celebrities like them. We will not show our baby because of privacy but have no problem talking about the said kid in interviews.
I prefer celebs who do neither, but there is a huge difference between talking about them and doing photo shoots and pap walks with them. One violates their privacy somewhat but unless it’s a really insane anecdote, it won’t be remembered and their image isn’t tied into it. Once pictures get out there, unless the kid has a very plain (as in little distinguishing characteristics) face, people are going to recognise them as such as such a kid forever. It also massively increases the likelihood of some crazy person fixating on them.
I want to know the secret of the perfect mac and cheese.
She has a hooded eyelid, which using the term as meaty eyelid makes sense too. My eyelids are slightly hooded, but so are a lot of women’s eyelids. It makes it hard to do certain eye makeup looks, because you can’t see the whole look when your eyelid space is small and sort of droopy. Doing a cat eye is harder too, because there is a lot more creasing in the eye area, so it makes it harder to get a symmetrical look.
She’s bland. I found her to be decent in Charlestown, and otherwise fine in BILB. But as far as this whole cultivated designer image, ugh, fuck off. You got married and had your wedding reception in front of signage-laden slave quarters. On a plantation. I saw the pics. You are either incredibly stupid, or a garbage person, or both. Her style and blonde hair and surgery remain unremarkable to me.
What a strange way to describe your child. Between the two of them, can they come up with anything kind to say? These two are too hung up on appearance. Way to pass your hang-ups onto your children…😕