A Decade of Love: A Timeline of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’ Enduring Relationship

July 2010: Lively and Reynolds met on the set of “Green Lantern.”

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Together, Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively went to Comic-Con.

Livingston and Reynolds were chosen for the main parts in “Green Lantern” in the summer of 2010, and they attended Comic-Con in San Diego for the first time as a couple.

At the time, Reynolds was married to Scarlett Johansson, and Lively was still seeing her “Gossip Girl” co-star Penn Badgley. Therefore, they weren’t dating.

2010 September: Lively and Badgley announced their separation.

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Penn Badgley and Blake Lively had apparently split long before they announced it.

Shortly after filming started, Lively and Badgley ended their relationship. An insider told Us Weekly they had been keeping the news quiet for a while, but that they were still friends.

December 2010: Reynolds and Johansson announced their divorce

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About two years passed during their marriage.

Reynolds and Johansson announced their divorce in a joint statement not long after.

It said, “We’ve chosen to end our marriage after lengthy and thoughtful contemplation on both of our sides. We came into our relationship with love, and we are leaving it with the same love and care. Although it’s not demanded, privacy is definitely valued.”

Reports surfaced in June 2011 that Lively was dating Leonardo DiCaprio.

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Blake Lively and Leonardo DiCaprio reportedly split by the end of summer.

Lively and DiCaprio reportedly spent a summer dating. The two were photographed together several times, including at the Cannes Film Festival. Sources told E! they split at the end of the summer.

October 2011: Sources confirmed that Lively and Reynolds were dating.

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Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively made their romance public.

After months of reports, a source confirmed to People that the co-stars were “very much a couple” and that they were “really happy together.”

Lively was also spotted leaving Reynolds’ apartment on his birthday weekend.

September 2012: Reynolds and Lively tied the knot in a surprise wedding.

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Ryan Reynolds later expressed regret for the decision to wed at a plantation that had held Black people as slaves.

The couple wed in front of their loved ones at Boone Hall Plantation in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, after keeping things low-key for several months.

They never disclosed pictures, but they did share information about Lively’s custom Marchesa ball gown, their enormous dessert table, and the bouquets.

Years later, Reynolds expressed regret for his and Lively’s decision to wed at the plantation that had held Black people in sl𝔞very in an interview with Fast Company.

“It’s something we’ll always be deeply and unreservedly sorry for,” he stated. “It’s impossible to reconcile.”

In an interview in October 2012, Lively declared that she had “never been happier.”

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Blake Lively expressed a desire to have children.

Lively expressed her happiness with Reynolds in an interview with Allure, stating, “I’m really calm right now. Never in my life have I been happier.”

She also stated, “I’ve always wanted a big family,” making it obvious that she desired children. Yes, if I could have thirty (children), I would.

At the Met Gala in May 2014, they made their debut appearance on the red carpet together.

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Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds both wore Gucci.

The couple hit the red carpet for the first time together as a couple, not just costars, at the Met Ball in 2014. They both wore Gucci.

August 2014: Lively gushed about Reynolds to Vogue magazine

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Ryan Reynolds was praised as a “beautiful writer” by Blake Lively.

In a Vogue interview, Lively showed her affection for her hubby without holding back.

“We do everything together in life,” she remarked. He helps me with my character when I’m working on a movie, and I do the same for him. choosing a table for coffee. What’s going to be served. He’s a talented writer who has produced numerous pieces for us. Additionally, he understands me and has a fantastic barometer, so he will let me know if something isn’t as good as it may be.”

In October 2014, Lively made her first pregnancy announcement.

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Blake Lively announced the pregnancy on her website.

Lively took to her then-new lifestyle website, Preserve (which has since been deleted), to announce her first pregnancy. She posted a photo of herself among other photos of other pregnant people.

“Congratulations to all the expecting mothers out there,” she wrote at the time.

January 2015: Lively gave birth to their first child.

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James is the name of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’ daughter.

According to Page Six, Lively gave birth to a daughter who arrived a little early, the couple’s first child. She delivered birth close to their Bedford, New York, house.

Following several months with little information available about the child, Reynolds at last disclosed their daughter’s name on “The Today Show.”

It is James, he stated. Everyone is aware. As we all know, tiny girls grow up to be adolescent girls, and occasionally those teenage ladies look through the archives and ask, “Why did you do that?,” so I didn’t want to be the first guy to call it out to the media.”

In February 2016, Reynolds revealed the details of his initial relationship with Lively.

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It seemed like a strange double date.

Reynolds revealed to Entertainment Weekly that when they first met, they were “buddies” at an amFAR New York Gala.

They apparently went on two dates together, although she was with a different man and he was with a different lady.

“From their perspective, that was the most awkward date, probably because we were just like fireworks coming across,” he continued. We became friends after a while, even though it seemed strange at first. I believe that beginning a relationship as friends is the best course of action.”

It was revealed in April 2016 that they were expecting their second child.

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Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively had another daughter.

After a few weeks of rumors, Us Weekly confirmed that Lively was pregnant again.

July 2016: Lively told Marie Claire that Reynolds was her best friend.

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Blake Lively said she liked him and loved him.

In an interview with Marie Claire, Lively gushed about her relationship with Reynolds.

She said, “I knew he would always be my best friend for my whole life. That was the biggest thing to me. I’d never known anything like the friendship that I had with him. I could like him as much as I loved him.”

October 2016: Lively and Reynolds welcomed their second daughter.

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Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds with their two eldest daughters.

It was confirmed by Page Six that Lively gave birth to their second kid in a Manhattan hospital. Taylor Swift, a musician and friend of Lively, was also seen making her way to the hospital.

The couple then announced to Us Weekly that they had given their second daughter the name Inez Reynolds.

Reynolds shared the moment he realized Lively was the one in November 2016.

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That sequence seems straight out of a film.

Reynolds discussed the moment he decided he wanted to wed Lively in an interview with O magazine.

“I was like, ‘Want to dance?'” he added, “We were h𝔞nging out at this little restaurant in Tribeca that opens extremely late. This song came on. That place was completely empty because no one was inside. And it was simply one of those occasions where you realized halfway through the dance, “Oh, I think I may have crossed a line.” I then walked her home after that.

“And, uh, you know, I don’t really need to go into what happened after that,” he continued.

Reynolds responded to breakup rumors in March 2018 with a joke.

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Ryan Reynolds made light of it.

After hearing reports that he and Lively’s marriage was on the rocks, Reynolds tweeted a joke, saying, “I wish. I could use a little ‘me time.'”

May 2019: Lively and Reynolds seemingly announced they are expecting their third child together.

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The pair is overjoyed, according to a source.

In May 2018, Lively made her third pregnancy public by attending the “Detective Pikachu” premiere in support of her husband.

People magazine was then informed by sources that the celebs are thrilled to have three children.

The source told People, “They are so happy and excited about having another baby.”

October 2019: A number of media outlets verified that the couple had welcomed their third child.

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It appears that Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively have confirmed the gender of their third child to be a girl.

The couple welcomed their third kid in October, according to several sources, however the baby’s name hasn’t been revealed.

Although the couple has not yet made their third child’s birth publicly known, Reynolds posted a picture of himself, Lively, and what appears to be their third child in a carrier on Wednesday.

The infant’s face has been obscured and replaced with a happy face.

He also mentioned his “daughters” in this tweet, which appeared to confirm that the third kid he and Lively have together is a female.

Swift appears to have verified the name of the couple’s third child is Betty. Swift penned the song “Betty” for her most recent album “Folklore,” which incorporates the names of Lively and Reynold’s other two children, James and Inez.

In July 2021, Reynolds elaborated on the moment he initiated contact.

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According to Ryan Reynolds, he was “pleading” with Blake Lively to spend the night.

Reynolds said, “I met Blake on the darkest crease in the 𝔞nus of the universe called ‘Green Lantern,'” according to HollywoodLife, during an interview for the “SmartLess” podcast in July 2021. “We were friends and buddies and about a year and a half later we went on a double date, but we were with dating separate people.”

He claimed that while they were both boarding a train for Boston, he initiated contact.

“Next thing you know, she was going to Boston, I was going to Boston and I said, ‘Well, I’ll ride with you,'” he recounted. “We boarded the train and traveled in unison. I was pleading with her to share my bed.”

Us Weekly revealed Lively’s pregnancy in September 2022.

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Lively Blake in September of 2022.

Us Weekly revealed in September that Lively was expecting their fourth child.

When the actress attended the 10th annual Forbes Power Women’s Summit, she appeared to confirm her pregnancy. An onlooker told Us Weekly that she wasn’t “trying to hide” her pregnancy because she was wearing a gold minidress.

E! claims that she made a reference to her expanding brood when she said, “I just like to create.” I simply enjoy creating, whether it is for businesses, people, stories, or baking.”

The couple welcomed their fourth child in February 2023.

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Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively had four children as of February 2023.

The day of the 2023 Super Bowl marked the arrival of their fourth child. Other information on the infant has not yet been disclosed.