10 Things To Know About Blake Lively's 'Vogue' Cover Interview
Blake Lively is a wife to heartthrob Ryan Reynolds, the idol of many of Gossip Girl obsessed teenage (and older) girl, and a future internet entrepreneur. She's certainly got a lot going for her but we know very little about the 26-year-old actress. So here's what we've learned from her interview with Vogue, the August cover of which she is currently gracing.
8. Humour
She's so deadpan people often mistake her sense of humour for her being "a jerk". Apparently her friends have to laugh loudly whenever she says amusing something to a stranger in order to emphasise how Lively is genuinely being good humoured.
7. Food
Lively is always hungry and absolutely loves food. Strangely enough, it's difficult to hate her for constantly eating - in a Vogue interview last year she revealed she eats chocolate everyday - and still managing to maintain her model like figure. Of food, Lively said "food to me is love. When the whole family comes together, my mom makes a big meal, usually a family dish that was passed down."
6. The South
Lively loves the South almost as much as she loves food. Although the Green Lantern actress grew up in Los Angeles and is the daughter of an actor, she loves the Southern states as her mother grew up in Georgia. She also claims her love of food comes from her Southern origins as well as her love of all things rustic.
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5. Gossip Girl
The last season of Gossip Girl in 2012 was so exhausting, Lively took a year off afterwards. As she explained in the interview, she was working constantly and her life existed in the short gaps between takes. She said, "I just needed time to regenerate. And when you're working fifteen-hour days, ten months a year, the only time you have for real life is between takes. So you're not really acting anymore. You're reciting."
4. Her Wedding & Martha Stewart
Lively and Reynold's wedding in 2012 was going to be a "disaster" before Martha Stewart stepped in and took over. Lively cites Stewart as one of her inspirations and described her as "generous and kind". She explained how "Our wedding was becoming a disaster, and we didn't know what to do, so we called Martha! She said, 'Don't worry. I'll handle it.'"
3. Prostitutes
Since appearing in 2010's The Town and then in 2012's Savages, Lively has been type cast in possibly the most bizarre and opposite role - a prostitute! Lively said "You do a movie [The Town] to change the way people think about you, and then they never see you any other way. It didn't help matters that I followed it up with Savages and another sexually charged, drug-addled young woman."
She's looking forward to kids with Ryan Reynolds. She's definitely thinking about the 37-year-old in the long term and has faith in his ability as a future father. Lively said, "He's going to be a great father and leader and patriarch-he's so meant to be all of those things. The fact that he lived so much before we got together, he's the exact realized person that he should be."
1. Her Wedding Dress
Apparently during Florence Welch's performance at her wedding, sparklers were used for dramatic effect and her dress was badly burnt. But Reynolds took an optimistic approach, explaining to his new wife, "'You'll always remember that moment with Florence singing and the sparklers. You have that forever, right there, preserved.'" She added "Now that's my favourite part of the dress."
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