Ryan Reynolds is keeping his family private, thank you very much
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds fiercely defend their family’s privacy—and it’s a thing to behold. The couple apparently ushered in their fourth child without any media outlets getting wind of it. And this from two of the most famous people in Hollywood, who happen to be married to each other. Good. For. Them!
On a segment with CNBC’s Power Lunch this week, one of the show’s hosts tried desperately to get Reynolds to spill some info on he and Lively’s newest addition. It didn’t work. At all. You can see the interaction around minute seven.
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“Ryan, I want to play my fellow mom of four card over here. I want to know,” host Kelly Evans asked. “Boy or girl?”
“I ain’t telling.” Reynolds responded. “This ain’t a birth announcement.” He further clarified, “We didn’t make a birth announcement. We just posted a photo and the media did what it does after that.
“Look, we wouldn’t do this four times if we didn’t love it.”
Earlier in the week, Blake shared a carousel of images from her family’s Puppy Bowl Sunday festivities. It was food, food, food, and oh, look! A picture of Blake visibly missing that baby bump that so recently was making news.
She captioned the photo, “Been busy,” which is clearly a cheeky way of saying, HA! We had our baby in the precious privacy we deserved!
Lively and Reynolds are famously and admirably protective of their children’s privacy, and they’ve both been vocal critics of the paparazzi and the media outlets who purchase their pictures. In fact, after Lively announced this pregnancy, she took to Instagram with a carousel of pictures of her baby bump to make the images the relentless paparazzi was trying to get worth less.
“Here are photos of me pregnant in real life so the 11 guys waiting outside my home for a 🦄 sighting will leave me alone,” she wrote. “You freak me and my kids out. Thanks to everyone else for all the love and respect and for continuing to unfollow accounts and publications who share photos of children.”
The couple share daughters, James, seven, Inez, six, and Betty, three. They’ve never shared birth announcements and have always waited an extended period of time to even share their names. Any photos they share that happen to have kids in them always obscure their faces.
They have yet to officially confirm baby number four’s birth.
