Blake Lively turned 35: where did the star of “Gossip Girl” disappear

Little Blake and her large acting family

Little Blake Ellender Brown (as the future star was named at birth) was born on August 25, 1987 in the Californian city with the interesting name Tarzan, which he received in honor of the original character of the books by Edgar Burroughs.

The girl’s parents were hardworking workers in the film industry, passionately in love with their profession. True, none of them had a career that did not work out. Ernie’s father tried to get by with episodic roles, played security guards, salesmen, administrators, ordinary passers-by with one or two lines, and sometimes even acted as an extra. Later, he also tried his hand at directing, but his films turned out to be of no interest to either the studios or the audience. But it was in these films that the young actress made her debut a little later.

Mother Elaine tried to balance between acting and her agency to promote young performers, but in the end she completely went into business. At the same time, in addition to Blake, there were as many as four older children in the family: Robin, Laurie, Eric and Jason. They lived very amicably, but it was possible to support so many children only thanks to Elaine’s agency.

Of course, parents with many children did not have time to look after their children, so they often took them with them to filming, rehearsals and acting circles. Such a childhood simply could not but have an impact on their young minds, so all the children of Lively became successful actors to varying degrees. Now on the red carpet, this whole family can hardly fit into the lenses of journalistic cameras.

As for Blake herself, she first made her debut in her father’s film The Sandman. The plot in it told about how the fairy-tale character of the same name decided to retire due to the fact that the children no longer believed in him. The newly minted actress played one of the children disappointed in the miracle.

The family immediately recognized a great talent in the girl and tried to inspire her to go to castings and auditions more. Especially in this regard, brother Eric excelled, who encouraged his sister after each failure. And she had a lot of failures, because Blake could not get a single role before she turned 18.

Finally, in 2005, thanks to the help of the same Eric, she was able to receive a coveted offer to participate in the teenage melodrama “Jeans Mascot”. The story was dedicated to four inseparable friends who, after graduating from school, are forced to part for the first time for a long time and disperse to different cities. During their farewell walk, they find jeans that are perfect for all of them at once. They decide to turn this piece of clothing into their talisman, which will not let them forget about each other, even after moving. Lively got the role of one of the four girls, Bridget.

From that moment on, her career began to pick up pace. The very next year, Blake was cast as the beautiful Monica in We Are Accepted!, a comedy about how a group of students decide to open their own university. She also played a small character in the horror film Simon Says.

And soon Lively got a unique chance to prove that her success is not determined by appearance at all, but by hard work and real talent. In 2007, she was invited to the main role in the melodrama Elvis and Anabelle, in which she played the role of a girl suffering from bulimia. For the sake of the exact embodiment of the image of Anabelle, the actress had to sit on a strict diet. For Blake, this was a particularly difficult professional test, because, according to her, food has always been the main love of her life.

Why did the world fall in love with Blake Lively?

In the same 2007, a breakthrough happened in the career of the actress, which turned her into a real Hollywood star. We are talking, of course, about the cult series “Gossip Girl”. This story told about the adventures of a company of schoolchildren, who were tirelessly followed by a mysterious blogger nicknamed Gossip Girl. Here Lively played the arrogant, spoiled, rich schoolgirl Serena van der Woodsen. The show turned out to be not just very popular, but simply explosive: at the beginning of the second season, its audience was already larger than that of such hits as Supernatural and The Big Bang Theory. For this work, Lively received three Teen Choice Awards.

The next important milestone in her career was the participation in the film “City of Thieves”, in which Blake embodied on the screen the image of a single mother, Christa. The film received an Oscar nomination, which meant that the actress had to walk the main red carpet in the world for the first time.

The final stage of Blake’s creative biography to date came in 2015, with the release of the film The Age of Adeline. This is a refined fantasy melodrama about the girl Adeline, who, after a terrible accident, has ceased to grow old. Even after a hundred years of life, the immortal lady still couldn’t find true love. But one day she still meets a man for whom she is ready to become mortal again. In the film, she starred in a pair with the legendary Harrison Ford. The tape was very warmly received by critics, and Lively received a nomination for the very prestigious Saturn Award.

Blake Lively’s personal life

Constant classes with tutors and trips to auditions do not mean at all that all the thoughts of a teenage girl were occupied only with acting for all 7 years of her inactivity before her role in “Jeans-talisman”. School friends remember Blake as the main beauty of the school, the head of the class, the head of the cheerleading team. And the girl, of course, had a lot of fans, but she never managed to start a real relationship before 17. According to Lively, despite her active life, she was very shy and she simply did not have the courage to agree to dates.

Blake’s first boyfriend was her longtime high school friend Kelly Blatz. Both do not really like to remember this period of their lives, but at least the network has a lot of their cute joint photos from the school graduation. The novel lasted from 2004 to 2007. It is still not known exactly why they broke up, but according to rumors, the series Gossip Girl became a stumbling block, because of which Lively could not devote much time to their relationship.

On the set of the same Gossip Girl, Blake got along with her partner on the set, actor Penn Badgley. It is ironic that their serial characters also began to meet in the story. Both novels lasted approximately the same, that is, from 2007 to 2010. The couple, as usual, did not disclose the reason for the separation. But it was rumored that it all ended because of Penn’s jealousy: while the series made Lively a superstar, Badgley’s work went almost unnoticed.

After that, the media suggested that the actress began an affair with Ryan Gosling. Blake had tried to hide her personal life before, but apparently the success of Gossip Girl finally turned her into a paranoid one, so there is still no confirmation of the fact that these relationships actually existed. However, the paparazzi were able to capture them together on several dates, as well as on visits to each other for filming. They met for about a year, but why they broke up is unknown.

Further, the already famous beauty Lively started a holiday romance with Leonardo DiCaprio himself. Together they made a flight cruise along the shores of Europe: they sailed along the Cote d’Azur of France, tasted wine in the small Italian town of Portofino and returned to New York. After the end of the vacation, their relationship died out and the reason, again, is still unknown.

Finally, after a short affair with DiCaprio, Lively was able to confess her love to the main chosen one of her life – Ryan Reynolds. They met back in 2011 on the set of the superhero movie Green Lantern. According to their friends, a spark immediately ran between Ryan and Blake, but there was a problem: Reynolds was still married to Scarlett Johansson. Whether the actor cheated on his ex-wife with Lively is still a topic of fierce debate. Anyway, in 2011 he filed for divorce, and almost immediately began an affair with Blake. Thus began a long relationship history of the most beautiful couple in Hollywood.

They secretly got married in 2012, on a remote estate in South Carolina. The ceremony was attended by only 35 of the closest friends and relatives. They honeymooned in Africa and at Reynolds’ home in Canada. And on their second wedding anniversary, Blake found out she was pregnant. Their first baby was named James. And in 2016 and 2019, his two sisters, Ines and Betty, were born.

How Blake Lively disappeared from the screens

Marriage to Reynolds and the appearance of children forced Blake to strongly reconsider her priorities in life. Even during her first pregnancy, the actress appeared at social events without any problems and shone in fashionable dresses. But for the second and third time, she was forced to take a vacation from her acting career.

Now Lively has decided to focus entirely on her family. Still, raising three children, especially as a Hollywood star, is not at all easy. Her latest project was the thriller Rhythm Section, released in 2020. Most likely, the actress will return to a big movie, but when exactly this will happen is difficult to say. Recently, on her social networks, she posted a photo on the beach, which became the reason for the conversation that Blake clearly decided to get in shape after pregnancy. Could this be a sign that she has finally decided to resume her career? We will find out in the near future.