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By Variety Staff Blake Lively opened up about everything from advice she received from her mother, to the amount of times she watches “The Wizard of Oz” with her daughter (“probably 60 times a week”) during the cover…
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Ryan Reynolds loves being a father to two daughters. They see something really wonderful in this character, which is that he sort of flips the bird to cancer, and I think that's important.
What he doesn't love, though, is the idea that they will one day enter into the dating world. It's the best thing that could ever happen to you."Ryan and his wife, Blake Lively, recently welcomed their second daughter, who joins big sister James Reynolds, nearly 2. So, I got to meet and got to know a lot of these kids," Ryan said.
"I'm doing my part to just wipe men off the face of the planet," he joked in an interview with 's Ben Mulroney Wednesday. Having two children to take care hasn't changed Ryan's approach to parenting much. "It was a funny situation, because you start to spend a lot of time with them.""One kid in particular, Connor Mc Grath—I would go up to Edmonton and I would see him. People sometimes say, 'Don't get to close.' Come on! "But afterwards, you're left in this kind of spiral.
I just didn't think that kids read it as much—but they do.
Before moving to Los Angeles to pursue their show business careers, Lively's parents lived in Georgia, and the household always maintained its Southern influences. Her six-year-old brother was so nervous about beginning first grade alone that her mother told the school that Blake (who was extremely tall for her age) was also six years old so that she could accompany him.
"After a few weeks," Lively remembers, "they said they would have to put me in mentally disabled classes because I wasn't up to pace with the rest of the kids.
Her mother is a talent manager and her father is an actor-director.
Since her breakout role in — a prime-time, soapy drama that explored the scandalous life of teens living on the Upper East Side of New York City.