Actress and former Gossip Girl star Blake Lively revealed her new baby bump for the first time in New York City on May 2, at the premiere of Pokémon Detective Pikachu. Ryan Reynolds, the voice of Detective Pikachu in the new film, accompanied Lively, who wore a stunning canary-yellow gown—fittingly so, since Pikachu is also yellow.
The sequinned form-fitting slip dress Lively wore is from Retrofête, priced at $670.
Lively, 31, has not been posting to her Instagram feed since Jan. 11. Fans can now suspect it was because she was busy being pregnant with her third child. She and Reynolds, 42, have not said when the baby is due. The expectant couple, who married in September 2012, currently have two daughters—4-year-old James and 2-year-old Inez.
The Family Stays Together
Both Lively and Reynolds have previously shared how they try to make their relationship work despite their busy schedules.“Blake and I don’t do movies at the same time,” Reynolds said. “If she is doing a movie in Thailand and I am doing a movie in Vancouver we would just never see each other. We operate as a unit, and that works really well for us ... The kids stay with us, and the family stays together, and that is where home is. So if we are in Spain or Utah or New York, as long as we are together, we’re home.”
“I love it,” he said. “It’s really kind of made me a better person, I think. You know?”
He previously shared with E! News of the experiences he has been through as a parent.
Hopes of a Big Family and Privacy
He also previously shared that he'd hope to have a large family with Lively.“I'd rather not have to deal with [paparazzi attention] at all, but we knew the lifestyle we were getting into, and while it’s hard … it’s another thing when it’s our child [James]. She didn’t have the opportunity to make a decision about what she wants.”
“Ryan had a nice, normal upbringing, and we want our kids to have the same normal life that we had,” Lively said. “We don’t ever want to rob them of what we had, because we'd feel really selfish.”
The family made their first public appearance with their two daughters in December 2016, when Reynolds accepted his star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony. At the time, Reynolds expressed his appreciation of Lively and his two daughters.
“I want to thank my wife, Blake, who is sitting right there who is everything to me. You are the best thing that has ever happened to me,” he said.
“You make everything better—absolutely everything in my life better. You’ve given us two of the most incredible children that I could ever hope to have. You’ve made me the father of my dreams when I thought I only had fun uncle potential.”