Blake Lively covers the new issue of Fashion Magazine. Blandy McBlanderson. And I’m saying that as someone who sometimes defends Blake, but it’s like she’s trying to rebrand (“rebland”) herself as this completely bland, vanilla person. Blake should let her freak flag fly! But no. Instead we have to listen to poor Blake and how she was just so creatively SPENT after Gossip Girl. The language that she uses to describe herself, her career and her emotional tumult is just so over the top though. Some highlights:

On avoiding Hollywood at first: “It was never that I didn’t want to be an actor because I thought it was a bad industry. It was just that my whole family did it and I wanted to do something different. I was the youngest of five kids and I wanted to create my own path and my own sort of legacy.”

On a career in acting: “It’s hard to have that sense of ease when you have a job that is so much in the hands of luck and fate.”

On how her mom’s cakes made her see the power of baking: “She just created a whole life, a personality out of this thing. It was very much art and a celebration, and it made every holiday so special. I would be so proud when she would bring them into my class, and all of the kids in school would just freak out. She would let other kids help decorate too. And I suffer from the opposite, I’m very precious about it, it has to be perfect.”

On Age of Adaline, her first movie post-Gossip Girl: “I really wanted some time to myself and to focus on other things that I loved, so that when I did it again I would be really re-invigorated. And it took a movie that I really couldn’t say ‘no’ to, you know, because there’s plenty that I would have done, but it was really important to have that time. So when I read that one, I said, ‘I can’t not be in this movie, I have to do this movie.’”

On her approach to multitasking: “I don’t think I will ever do one thing. I’ve never done one thing … I have a tendency to go all or nothing. I take so many things on, so there will never be one [occasion] when I say, ‘This is it, and this is all I’m doing forever.’”

[From Fashion Magazine]

“I’m very precious about it, it has to be perfect.” That shows some self-awareness too. Maybe I’ll cut her some slack on that, mostly because I’m the same way. If I’m actually cooking or baking, I just want to do it myself with no help because I can’t stand the mess of other people and if I do it, I know it will be done to my specifications. So maybe I’m “precious” about it too. Here’s where I will through some shade: “There’s plenty that I would have done, but it was really important to have that time…” Granted, she probably was offered various projects and she said no because she wanted to have some time with Ryan Reynolds and all of that. But she’s making it sound like she’s Meryl Streep and she was just getting script after glorious script. Come on!

Cover courtesy of Fashion Magazine, additional pics by Fame/Flynet.