Proud parents! Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively share two daughters, and while the pair mostly keep their little ones out of the public eye, it’s clear their girls mean the world to them.
Three years after their 2012 nuptials, the Gossip Girl alum and the Pokémon: Detective Pikachu star welcomed James. “The baby came early but everyone is happy and healthy,” a source told Us Weekly exclusively at the time. “Their Bedford house is all prepared. They’re going to stay up there for the baby’s first days.” Inez arrived in 2016.
Before they became parents, the Green Lantern costars spoke often about having kids.
“We’d love to have a big family,” Reynolds told Details in August 2013. “We both come from big families — my parents did four, Blake’s did five. A lot of people say it’s crazy, but we’ll only know when we’re there, you know? We’ll walk through that fire pretty happily, I think.”
His wife echoed this sweet sentiment in Marie Claire‘s September 2014 issue. “I gotta get started,” the actress said at the time. “If I could spit out a litter of kids, I would.”
Even Lively’s dad confirmed that she had baby fever! “My youngest daughter is newly married and wants a big family,” the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants star’s dad, Erin Lively, revealed in a statement released by the University of Utah in October 2013. “She says she wants 30 kids. I said, ‘Why don’t you start with one?'”
Now that their family is in full swing, keep scrolling for a look at the sweet things the couple have said about James and Inez.
What a guy! "I used to say to [Blake], 'I would take a bullet for you. I could never love anything as much as I love you,'" the actor told David Letterman in 2015. "I would say that to my wife. And the second I looked in that baby's eyes, I knew in that exact moment that if we were ever under attack, I would use my wife as a human shield to protect that baby."
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“What’s crazy is my 2-year-old wakes up at night,” Lively said on Live With Kelly and Ryan in 2016. “She’s the baby, basically. My little one, she’s just so divine. She came out of the womb a little foodie.”
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Planning ahead! “Ryan had a nice, normal upbringing, and we want our kids to have the same normal life that we had,” the two-time mom told Marie Claire in 2016. “We don’t ever want to rob them of what we had because then we’d feel really selfish.””
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“My kid is like playing with explosive devices,” the actress revealed on Late Night With Seth Meyers in 2016. “I don’t know where she found them. She already knows how to drywall because she puts holes in the wall.”
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Lively opened up about her love for her children to Marie Claire in 2016. “All my eggs are in one basket, and that’s my family,” she said at the time. “That’s where my heart is. That’s where my everything is. That’s the thing that I feel most protective of and the thing that I feel is the most exposed when I feel exploited.”
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“I would rather drink a piping hot bowl of liquid rabies than get on a plane with my two children,” Reynolds admitted on Good Morning America in 2017. “At 2 years old they just have to rip all their clothes off and introduce themselves to everyone on the plane, it’s just like, ‘Please can we land in a farmer’s field?’”
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In 2018, the actor explained why he named one of his daughters James, after his father. “It felt right,” he told Marie Claire. “At the end of the day, it’s easier to focus on the good stuff than the bad. My father died soon after my daughter was born, but he got to see her, which makes me happy.”
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“When they decide to go away to college, I’m going to be that guy, ‘That’s so funny, I’m going to NYU, too!’” Reynolds told Extra in 2019. “I’m going to be so needy. I love being around them — it’s the best thing in the world.”
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“My daughter James is losing her mind over it,” Reynolds said of his Pokemon: Detective Pikachu movie in a May 2019 Good Morning America appearance. “She’s never been interested in a movie I’ve done ever. … I’m curious how [my daughter Inez] is going to react to it.”
The actor added: "They do know Deadpool. They sometimes say it, and it's sort of embarrassing. I'll be in a grocery store and they'll be like, 'My daddy's Deadpool.' And I'll be like, 'I did not tell her to say that.'"
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"Bags under my eyes by two thankless a--holes who refused to go to bed the night before, despite the fact I read them Winnie the Pooh and nearly half of Stephen King’s The Shining," the actor joked in September 2019.
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"I understand how overwhelming it is to be a new parent,” Lively said of her Amazon baby registry in October 2019. “What they don’t tell you is it never gets less overwhelming, but with each kid, I do learn more."
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“I love B.C.,” Reynolds tweeted in October 2019 following the birth of his and Lively’s third child. “I want my daughters to experience the same natural playground I grew up in.”
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Although James loves "singing songs, doing plays at home [and performing in movies]," Reynolds is warning her against child acting, he revealed during a December 2019 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. "Showbiz is not good for kids," the 6 Underground star explained. "I feel like we should know this by now, right? But parents everywhere are like, ‘Yeah, let's just put them in a movie, unsupervised.'"
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“She’s obsessed. Jimmy Fallon is Shawn Mendes to my daughter, like, legitimately," the Canadian star added. "She loses her mind.”
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“They are doing great,” Reynolds told Extra in December 2019 when asked about his wife and their third child.
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The Golden Globe nominee went on to joke that he and Lively have not chosen a moniker for their third child "to give her something to push against in life." Reynolds teased, "All of the letters in her name are silent."
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"Leaving the house is getting harder and harder,” Reynolds admitted during a December 2019 Today show appearance. “It gets a lot harder when they ask, ‘Where are you going? When are you coming home? Why are you leaving me?’”
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“Dear abs, I miss you,” the actress captioned a throwback Instagram Story photo in January 2020, three months after giving birth to her third daughter.
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"It's like going from two to 3,000," Lively said on Good Morning America in January 2020 of raising three kids. "I mean, we have so many children. It's pretty crazy. It's a lot."
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"Our oldest is loving on [our newborn] and she’s very maternal, and our middle daughter just keeps away from her," Lively revealed during a January 2020 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. "I said to her, ‘You’re going to teach her everything she knows. You get to teach her about cities and the sky and flowers and Santa Claus. Anything you want.’ And she goes, ‘Oh, I didn’t love you, but now I do.'"
The actress went on to say, "We’ve got to stay away from you, Jimmy. [James] is so intimidated by you. … She’s like buddies with Taylor Swift, no problem. Jimmy Fallon, can’t speak. You're Beyoncé for her. She’s very, very intimidated."
“Dead inside,” Lively wrote on her Instagram Story after a January 2020 Live With Kelly and Ryan appearance. “3 Kids = Me. So. Sleepy.”
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"After I gave birth, he was like, 'Oh, my gosh, if I lost you and I went to the park with our three kids, think of the ladies I can pick up,'" Lively said of her husband during a January 2020 Live With Kelly and Ryan appearance.
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That same month, she told E! News, "The only reason I have kids is so I can eat Rice Krispies Treats for every meal of the day and be really proud of it."
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Lively revealed in January 2020 that while filming The Rhythm Section in Europe, she balanced her girls and workouts by combining the two. "I woke up at 5 a.m., but mostly because I was doing momma duty with my girls," she told Vanity Fair in a video interview breaking down a day in her life on set. "I would actually wake up and work out with my girls. So I would sort of use them as weights. Instead of wearing a weight vest, I got to wear my children."
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“I guess I really have to really, really, really, really love it because I’m just obsessed with my kids,” Lively told E! News in February 2020 of choosing film projects. “It’s gotta really be worth it to take me away.”
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"We're doing a lot of home-schooling,” Reynolds said of social distancing with his kids during an April 2020 virtual appearance on A Late Show With Stephen Colbert at Home. “We're lucky enough to have a little, tiny garden, so we're learning a little bit about gardening. We’re trying to make this an educational experience, but I’m mostly drinking.”
The actor went on to joke that he "wouldn't hesitate" to eat his three daughters.
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“With three kids in the house, I need [my Aviation Gin] more than ever,” Reynolds joked in a June 2020 ad about how “proud” he is of his alcohol brand.
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When Lively joked that she "got ... pregnant" from watching one of Reynolds' Instagram videos in July 2020, he replied, "@blakelively I will be out of the office starting July 22nd throughout the middle or forever and ever. If you need immediate assistance during my absence, please contact someone. Anyone. Otherwise I will respond to your message as soon as possible upon my unlikely return. Thank you.”
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“We’ve been teaching our children differently than the way our parents taught us,” the actress wrote in a May Instagram slideshow. “We want to educate ourselves about other people’s experiences and talk to our kids about everything, all of it. Especially our own complicity. … We’re committed to raising our kids so they never grow up feeding this insane pattern and they’ll do their best to never inflict pain on another being consciously or unconsciously."
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"We won’t embarrass them at all in middle school," Lively captioned an August 2020 Instagram Story photo of herself and Reynolds rocking homemade face masks designed by their daughters.
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