Blake Lively’s ‘Rule’ For Ryan Reynolds When They Started Dating
Blake Lively revealed a tidbit behind the success of her marriage to Ryan Reynolds. Dating back to the beginning of their relationship, the Gossip Girl alum explained recently how she…
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds attend the “Deadpool” fan event at AMC Empire Theatre on February 8, 2016 in New York City.
Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty ImagesBlake Lively revealed a tidbit behind the success of her marriage to Ryan Reynolds. Dating back to the beginning of their relationship, the Gossip Girl alum explained recently how she made it work with the in-demand actor. Lively told her Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants co-star and longtime friend, Amber Tamblyn, that she and Reynolds created a “rule” to make sure they never got too busy to spend time together. When the couple first embarked on their romance in 2011, they made a pact not to work at the same time so that they "could always prioritize our personal life."
Lively and Reynolds met on the set of the DCEU flop The Green Lantern in 2010, though they were both in other relationships at the time. The pair eventually got together in 2011, following Lively’s split from her Gossip Girl co-star Penn Badgley in September 2010 and the Deadpool star’s divorce from Scarlett Johansson in December of that same year. At the time, Lively was still starring in the popular teen drama series while Reynolds’s film career was thriving, so this wasn’t a simple commitment to make. The mom of four acknowledged the challenges of adhering to this rule, emphasizing the necessity of hard work and balance, given her demanding schedule. “That takes working really hard when we’re not,” Lively told Tamblyn, adding that they would sometimes shoot three episodes of Gossip Girl at once.
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Thirteen years and four daughters later, this rule seems to be working out for them. “We don’t split up,” Reynolds previously told Access Hollywood of keeping their growing family together. "We go travel all over the place, and we just all go together. I think that’s been the best part of it is that we really don’t spend a lot of time apart. I get to spend a lot of time with my girls."
These Celebrities Share The Same Ex
Hollywood can be a small dating pool. Celebrities hook up with each other in their same social circles. And there is no shortage of Hollywood divorces. The dating world of the rich and the famous is small for those who are in it. As a result, there are many celebrities who share the same lovers.
Take a look below at which celebrities have been with the same person:
Lenny Kravitz
Evan Agostini/Mike Coppola/Jon Kopaloff/Getty ImagesLisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz were married from 1985 to 1993. Adriana Lima and Lenny were together from 2001 to 2003, and were engaged.
Harry Styles
Amy Sussman/Getty Images/Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for The Recording AcademyTaylor Swift and Harry Styles dated for a year back in 2012 and both wrote songs about each other. Nearly ten years later and a woman ten years older, Harry dated Olivia Wilde for two years.
Demi Moore
Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images for ShowtimeDemi Moore was married to Bruce Willis from 1987 and welcomed three daughters with him: Rumer, Scout and Tallulah. They divorced in 2000. Moore and Ashton Kutcher married in 2005 after dating for two years. She announced their split in November 2011 and they finalized their divorce two years later.
Matthew McConaughey
Frazer Harrison/Emma McIntyre/Getty Images/Gregg DeGuire/Getty Images for WCRFBefore marrying his wife Camila Alves in 2012, McConaughey dated Bullock for two years in 1996.
Angelina Jolie
Joe Maher/JC Olivera/Amy Sussman/Getty ImagesBilly Bob Thornton and Jolie were married from 2000 to 2003 after they met and fell in love on the set of 1999's 'Pushing Tin.' She met Brad while on the set of 2003's 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith.' She was single, but Brad was married to Jennifer Aniston. Jolie and Pitt married in 2014, divorcing five years later citing irreconcilable differences.
Katy Perry
Jeff Spicer/Monica Schipper/JC Olivera/Getty ImagesRussell Brand and Perry married back in 2010, but it only lasted 14 months. In 2016, Perry began dating Orlando Bloom. After taking a break in 2017, they rekindled their romance less than a year later and are now engaged and share a daughter together.
Kendall Jenner
Frazer Harrison/Dimitrios Kambouris/Christian Petersen/Getty ImagesKendall was linked to Nick Jonas in 2015 after his split from Olivia Culpo. Fast forward to 2020, Jenner dated Phoenix Suns Devin Booker on and off for 2 years -- her longest relationship to date.
Justin Bieber
Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for Vanity Fair/Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for The Recording Academy/Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesJustin and Selena Gomez were the ultimate pop power couple, dating on and off from 2008 to 2018. Justin and Hailey Baldwin dated for six months in 2016 when he and Selena weren't together and reunited again a month after he and Selena broke up in 2018. Justin and Hailey got engaged in July 2018 and married in September 2018.
Megan Fox
Dia Dipasupil/ Jamie McCarthy/Ethan Miller/Getty ImagesBrian Austin Green and Fox first met in 2004 while filming 'Hope & Faith.' They began dating shortly after, marrying in 2010 and share three children together. In 2020, Fox filed for divorce and went on to date Machine Gun Kelly. In 2022, MGK proposed to Fox. The couple's relationship is up in the air, as breakup rumors began in February 2023.
Halsey
Frazer Harrison/Amy Sussman/Getty Images/Leon Bennett/Getty Images for Black Music Action CoalitionEvan Peters and Halsey dated for a few months from September 2019 until February 2020. G-Eazy and Halsey had an on-and-off relationship from 2017 until it ultimately ended in October 2018.
Madonna
Stuart C. Wilson/Dimitrios Kambouris/Andreas Rentz/Getty ImagesMadonna's been married twice: first to Sean Penn, to whom she was married from 1985 to 1989, and then to Guy Ritchie from 2000 to 2008.
Kim Kardashian
Brad Barket/Getty Images for Fast Company/Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for ABA/Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BETKanye and Kim started dating in 2012, marrying 2 years later. They divorced in 2022 and share four children together. Ray J dated Kim from 2002-2006 and famously made a sex tape with her in 2004.
Scarlett Johansson
Amy Sussman/Getty Images/Monica Schipper/Getty Images for David Yurman/Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for American Museum of Natural HistoryRyan Reynolds and Scarlett began dating in 2007 and married a year later. In 2011, the couple divorced. One marriage, divorce, and a child later, Scarlett and Colin Jost began dating in 2017 after knowing each other for a decade. They married secretly in 2020 and share a son together.
Justin Timberlake
David Livingston/Kevin Winter/Frazer Harrison/Getty ImagesBritney Spears met Justin on 'The Mickey Mouse Club' in 1992. They began dating in 1999 but broke up in 2002. Timberlake dated Jessica Biel in 2007 and though they broke up briefly in 2011, the couple tied the knot in 2012. The couple share two children together.
Demi Lovato
Leon Bennett/Getty Images/Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for The Recording Academy/Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for Vanity FairJoe Jonas dated his 'Camp Rock' co-star for just three months in 2010, but remain friends. Wilmer Valderrama dated Demi on and off from 2010 to 2016.
Ryan Gosling
Frazer Harrison/Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images/Angela Weiss/Getty Images for New York & CompanyGosling and Rachel McAdams began dating in 2005 after 'The Notebook' came out. They called it quits two years later. Gosling then dated Eva Mendes shortly after filming 'The Place Beyond the Pines' in 2011. The couple, who share two kids together, have kept their lives private.
Joaquin Phoenix
Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts/Gareth Cattermole/Amy Sussman/Getty ImagesJoaquin dated his 'Inventing the Abbotts' co-star Liv Tyler from 1995 to 1998. Almost a decade later, Phoenix began dating Rooney Mara in 2016. The couple got engaged in 2019 and a year later, Mara gave birth to their son, River.
