Blake Lively Once Shared ‘the Secret to Happiness’ With Ryan Reynolds
Amidst high-profile celebrity divorces and lawsuits, it can be a breath of fresh air to see a celebrity couple who seem truly happy with one another. Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are one of Hollywood’s most adored couples — and for good reason. The pair appears refreshingly down-to-earth about the realities of their romance. And they love to treat their adoring fans to hilarious ribbing of one another on social media.
When Lively opened up about what makes their relationship work, she included the “secret to happiness” the duo has found.
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds met while working together
Green Lantern is one of Ryan Reynolds’ most panned films. But it provided him the chance at a happily ever after. On the set of the 2011 film, he and Blake Lively first met. The pair became friends, but Reynolds was married to Scarlett Johansson at the time. And Lively was in a relationship with Penn Badgley.
Eventually, those relationships ended, and the pair were free to explore their feelings for one another. But it took a little more work to get there. They ended up going on a double date — as friends, each with another person. As the story goes, this quickly became awkward for the others due to Reynolds and Lively’s obvious chemistry.
Once they did start dating, things moved quickly. They married in 2012. Since then, they’ve welcomed three daughters while keeping their private life out of the public eye. Still, they are adorable together and frequently roast one another lovingly on social media, much to the delight of their fans.
What is Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’ ‘secret to happiness’ in marriage?
In an interview for Entertainment Weekly, Lively opened up about what makes things work for the pair — now married a decade. She explained that the “secret to happiness” is that “in everyday life, he is my friend first.”
A big part of that is because of how they got together. They built a friendship before they started dating. In fact, their friendship was so solid that Reynolds and Lively didn’t initially consider each other when they found themselves newly single and diving back into the dating pool. They would even sit around trying to find potential dates for each other. Lively explained, “it didn’t click for a good year and a half” before they realized they could date each other.
She ends by saying it may not be what works for everyone, but that base of friendship made them the happy couple they are today.
What projects do Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds have coming soon?
Lively and Reynolds have busy celebrity schedules to juggle with their roles as parents to three young children. But they’ve both managed to stay active and relevant in the entertainment industry. In fact, we can expect to see each of them in some upcoming projects.
As IMDb shows, Lively will star alongside Diane Keaton, Richard Gere, and Lin-Manuel Miranda in The Making Of, a romantic comedy. She’s also been announced as the star of Proxy, a sci-fi thriller that involves a woman waking up to find her consciousness in a bio-synthetic body. Both projects are in pre-production.
As for Reynolds, he has some projects in the works, like Deadpool 3. But he took some time off to allow Lively time to film her movies. “Part of it is to allow Blake to do some of the things that she wants to do and get to play in her own sandbox. And the other part is purely selfish,” he told Fatherly, adding that he doesn’t “want to miss this time” with his kids.
