Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds welcomed their second child last week, according to reports that surfaced a few days ago.
Details are sketchy at this stage. We’re not sure if the baby is a boy or a girl or what his or her name is. We’re not even clear on when the child was born. Which is fair enough; who wants the entire world up in your grill in the days after you have a baby? This family, as much as any other, have a right to privacy.
Yesterday, Lively attended the wedding of one of her closest friends and she shared a couple of gorgeous photos from the day on her Instagram.
What followed was a bunch of stories marvelling that Lively had attended the wedding in the days after giving birth.
E! News wrote: “Blake Lively makes it to her best friend’s wedding just days after giving birth.”
Teen Vogue tweeted: “How, Blake, HOW?!?”
Vanity Fair headlined their post: “WONDER WOMAN. Blake Lively, Showing Superhuman Powers, Attended a Wedding Days After Giving Birth”.
Brides.com wrote, “Blake Lively Stuns As a Wedding Guest Just Days After Giving Birth.”
I have no idea why people are so impressed. Why the hyperbole?
Look, it certainly takes effort to get out of bed and get dressed in the days after you have a baby.
But, it’s just birth. Blake Lively didn’t do anything that hasn’t been done by millions of women before her, and millions of women will do after her.
It’s lovely that Lively went to her friend’s wedding. But that doesn’t make her super woman. It makes her a great friend.
But we have got to take it down a notch.
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Blake Lively's gorgeous pregnancy style.
Are we really so starved of news and information and entertainment that we would, in all seriousness, collectively act with wonderment that a woman who is not sick, is not disabled, is not in anyway impeded attended the wedding of her friend?
I really like Blake Lively. I like her warm and down-to-earth social media presence. She’s funny and doesn’t seem to take life too seriously. And I like the way she parents her kids, quietly and privately.
I don’t want to put words in her mouth, but she strikes me as the kind of person who would be pretty mystified about the attention she would be getting for doing nothing more normal than going to see an old and dear friend tie the knot.
I get the impression that Blake Lively would want the attention to be focused on the beautiful bride and the happy couple.
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I remember when I was a teaching and a heavily pregnant mother came in to drop her kid off in the morning and came back with the newborn bubba in the arvo, it was her 5th.
After my first baby I literally couldn't stand fully upright for about a week and my downstairs area looked like a purple balloon animal. I had to lower myself in and out of chairs like a geriatric.
Even after my second, which was a much easier birth and I was ready to go home within hours, the lochia (post partum bleeding) was really heavy and the couple stitches I had were still stinging a bit when I went to the loo. Combine that with sleep-deprivation, milk coming in, 3 day blues and the desire to do nothing but stare at; and snuggle with; my gorgeous baby, I can't imagine going off to a wedding would be a fun prospect, even if I had someone to do my hair and makeup to make things easier.
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't miss my best friends wedding for anything, but it would not be effortless.