Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively Want 4 Kids to Have ‘Normal’ Childhoods

Ryan Reynolds a Blake Lively are Hollywood A-listers, but they are committed to giving their children a regular life.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published on Friday, December 13, the Deadpool actor opened up about his family.

Reynolds and Lively share four children together: daughters James, 9, Inez, 8, and Betty, 5, as well as a son, Olin, whom they welcomed in early 2023.

“We try to give them as normal a life as possible,” Reynolds told the outlet.

“I try not to force on them the difference in their childhood to my childhood or my wife’s,” the actor continued, reflecting on his and Blake’s upbringing and how his perspective on raising children has changed.

“We both grew up very working class, and I remember when they were very young, I used to say or think, like, ‘Oh God, I’d never get a gift like this when I was a kid,’ or, ‘I would never have had this luxury of going out,’ or whatever,” Reynolds shared.

“Then I realized it wasn’t really their bag of rocks to carry,” he said, adding that his children had begun to show their own values. “They are already in touch with gratitude and understand the world enough to have a strong sense of empathy.”

Reynolds explained how his children make him and Lively feel secure in their parenting style.

“Those are the things that I would think (we would point out) that we are doing a good job – if our children can empathize with other people and other children,” he said, but acknowledged that no matter what, the his children will grow up with them. a different childhood to the one he had.

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“Yes, it’s different,” he told THR. “When I was a kid, you’d suck it up, get out of the house and be back by sunset, something I can’t even imagine now.”

Reynolds also addressed the recent news that he would be taking a break from filming.

“I’m still working in the sense that I’m writing, whether it’s on Boy Band or something else I can’t talk about yet. I don’t have an ‘idle hands is the devil’s game’ issue,” he said. “If I’m not working, I don’t crave it constantly. Boredom is a very underrated asset these days too. We as a society amuse ourselves to death 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The best ideas I’ve ever had have been born out of boredom, where your mind is allowed to wander and go into that kind of stasis of being and not doing.”