Blake Lively won’t find out the sex of the baby: ‘They want to be surprised!’

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Blake Lively stepped out on Tuesday wearing “a $1,350 black and red Pendleton wool trench cloak with large bell sleeves by Lindsey Thornburg.” Go here to see the photos. Blake sells the coat on Preserve, obviously, because everything about Blake these days is a shill. But what I found really interesting about those photos is how exclusive they are – Us Weekly, The Daily Mail and a small handful of other sites bought the photos, and NOT from a photo agency. It’s the weirdest thing. It’s like Blake pap’d herself but she got a friend to take the photos and she posed in the street, pretending not to see the camera. It’s like a next-level pap stroll where Blake controlled every part of the photo-op. She’s probably getting paid on both sides too – she gets a cut of the exclusive sales of the photos, plus people are being directed to Preserve to buy the same coat.

As for Blake’s pregnancy, we’re at the point where tabloids are guessing about the sex of the baby. Us Weekly’s sources claim that Blake and Ryan don’t even want to know:

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are keeping an element of surprise in their relationship — the expectant couple have decided to not find out the gender of their baby-to-be, a source tells Us Weekly.

“Blake and Ryan aren’t finding out what they’re having,” the insider tells Us. “They want to be surprised!”

While chatting with Us Weekly at an event on Oct. 16, Lively gushed that Reynolds, 38, couldn’t be a better husband to expect a baby with. “He’s always good to me,” Lively told Us. “That’s like a jerky thing to say because you want to be able to complain about your husband and be that person, but he takes pretty good care of me.”

And she’s taken care of herself while expecting as well, the insider adds. “She is [feeling] super relaxed and mellow,” the source said of the expecting star.

[From Us Weekly]

But! In Touch Weekly’s sources claim that Blake is definitely having a girl. A source says: “She’s having a girl and is very excited about it. Friends have even started buying her little girl’s clothing.” Blake has been outspoken about wanting daughters in the past, but you know what? I’m probably wrong, but my gossip gut is saying she’s carrying a boy. I don’t know why I think that, it’s just a feeling. One thing I don’t believe is that Blake and Ryan don’t want to know the sex. To my way of thinking, finding out the sex is just a practicality: you want to be able to buy baby clothes and decorate the nursery in a somewhat gender-specific way.

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Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

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  1. Lee says:

    This girl is no great actress but she surely knows how to keep her name in the press…she’s milking this pregnancy and pimping her Preserve thing so hard.
    Is id doing well at least? Hope for her all these efforts are not useless.

    • deehunny says:

      she is an amazing good business woman, I just can’t stand her. this next level pap stroll is ridiculous and fabulously clever. I bet PMK is angry she didn’t think of it first.

  2. Cupcake says:

    My gut also says boy for Blake!

  3. lunchcoma says:

    I think the people who feel the other way consider it practical as well – my sister despises pink and wanted to ensure she wouldn’t get reams of girly stuff from more gender-policing relatives.

    • Detritus says:

      Totally agree with your sister, LC. I don’t want to get 8 million pink princess things, or only blue Thomas the tank engine stuff.
      Id rather let the kid decide what they like, but some well meaning relative will want to push a gendered agenda.

      • Lexie says:

        Amen to all of this! Who says you have to do a blue or pink bedroom? Way to start judging and conditioning your child before it’s even born.

      • Nur says:

        Completely agree. I just found out Im having a girl but Im so not decorating the room in pink or anything girl specific (when the time comes). Whats the freaking point? The child wont know but you are already imposing princess stuff on her. Unfortunately everyone around me is talking rainbows, pink walls and whatnot and Im screaming my head off, saying no. 😀

    • Shahrizai says:

      YES! My hubby and I won’t find out the sex of ours, and this is one reason. 🙂

  4. Juliette says:

    I don’t think finding out the gender is a practicality. There are so few things in life that are “happy surprises” – the gender of a baby is one.

    What’s wrong with a yellow nursery? I dislike the forced pink or blue anyway.

    Plus, sometimes, just sometimes doctors get it wrong. My cousin was told she was having a girl, planned for a girl, pink nursery and everything, low-and-behold: out comes a boy! My cousin and her husband didn’t even name the baby for a few days because they were so surprised.

    • swack says:

      For someone who does not have a lot of money to spend, then I think it is a practicality. I did not have the option to know the gender of my three children (all girls by the way and that was great because we had lots of hand me downs) and the nursery was gender neutral. I dislike forced pink and blue also. But for my daughter who had a baby at 16 it was good to know the sex so that people could buy gender specific if they wanted to do so. She also wanted to buy gender specific. Same daughter had twins and at first was told she was having two girls and then in a later ultrasound found out one was a boy. I try to just wish for a healthy baby.

    • Karen says:

      This happened to my sisters best friend. Thought it was a girl. But then the husband burst down the hall after delivery “its a booooooy!” He wanted a boy if you couldn’t tell. But at their home they had everything pink: walls, crib, clothes etc.

    • Moneypenny says:

      We waited and it was a fun surprise. If we have another child, we’ll find out the sex because with our crazy toddler, we’d want advanced prep time.

      I think the gender thing for babies is too forced. My favorite color is orange, but there are no orange girl clothes. I like that we had some neutral things (and a neutral nursery) that we supplemented with a few “girly” things.

      • AJ says:

        My favorite color is orange too! And both of my girls were decked out in orange. I have found plenty of cute orange baby clothes. Baby gap, old navy, carters and gymboree

  5. QQ says:

    SURPPPRRIIISEE ITS A HUMAN BABYYYY

    • Ripley says:

      That’s what we said and it was great. People would ask and I would say, “It’s a baby.” Younger people couldn’t believe we didn’t find out… Older people? Loved. It.

      Have to admit having my husband say, “It’s a boy” was amazing.

    • Kiddo says:

      Oh psshaw! It’s an effortless swell of adorability, alluring for its innocence and unencumbered by time and space, as precious as a clover feasting bunny, in a field of flowers that smell like Johnson’s baby lotion.

      • mimif says:

        Babies are delicious. Oh! That reminds me, I’m pretty sure I got db’d on my first post of the day, I must go find out.

      • Kiddo says:

        I don’t want to look, unless you replied, “Get over it™”, or if you wrote an epic love poem about the futon, in response.

      • mimif says:

        Where’s GoodNames today? I need her satanic powers because I can’t find the post.

      • Jaderu says:

        Dawwww clover feasting bunny!!
        Your words always slays me Kiddo
        *dead*
        *dead from cute*

    • Jh says:

      Yep. Jesus. People actually publish this shite? I can’t think of any information less exciting or important.

    • Konspiracytheory says:

      LOL, QQ – indeed!

      We never found out in advance – ended up with boy, boy, girl. Truly never cared whether it was a boy or a girl – even for the third pregnancy (as hard as that was for people to believe). The last was a scheduled C-section (after two emergency C sections…) – I was surprised by how ‘into it’ the docs and nurses were – seems they enjoy a surprise as well. The funniest was the anesthesiologist – he had 2 boys and his wife was expecting their third baby. When the OB announced it was a girl, I think the anesthesiologist was more excited than we were. 🙂

    • Ange says:

      Yup, it’d be a much more interesting surprise if it was a velociraptor.

  6. Abbott says:

    I hope it’s a baby otter!

  7. Rhiley says:

    In the coat pictures, she looks like she is being attacked by a vampire.

  8. Size Does Matter says:

    Preserve: a hipster way to avoid the jam vs jelly punch line.

  9. Sparkly says:

    We never found out the sex of our babies. But we don’t really support the whole blue-pink gender dichotomy thing either. Blue is my favorite color! I ended up with 3 girls, and lots of baby stuff I bought was blue. I don’t get people who are like, “But how do you know what to buy?” Well, diapers, car seat, sling, a few onesies, some cute toys of any kind til we find out what the kid is drawn to…we’re good to go.

  10. BlueeJay says:

    How many months along is she? Wow they are really trying to getting attention for all it’s worth. Oh well you got to make your money somehow and when you can’t get acting jobs.

    • Lee says:

      Agreed! And still some people think she is private and low profile…please! I don’t like Johansson either (imho both she and Lively try too hard to sound smarter than they really are) but she stayed way classier during her pregnancy.

  11. EEV says:

    I didn’t want to find out our baby’s gender because the thought of receiving really gender-specific gifts really bugged me out. It’s a baby – why does it need to be pigeonholed into something before it even understands what that something is? In the end, we found out, but have (mostly) kept it a secret anyway – much prefer gender-neutral items than everything pink and princess-y or blue and cars-y.

  12. bopit says:

    this is definitely a trend I’ve seen lately – I’m pregnant (had to know, a girl!) and several others I know are too and 90% of them are waiting to find out the gender at birth. to each their own!

    • Erinn says:

      I’m terrible waiting for surprises. My mom keeps lecturing me that if we have kids, that I shouldn’t find out at least for the first one. But I think I probably would – and then just not make a bunch of gender specific decisions, and probably not tell anyone else.

  13. RN says:

    I didn’t find out the gender of my children prior to giving birth and I’m so glad that I didn’t. It was great fun to wait and guess. It made it more special for us – less clinical and planned. Planning everything is so boring, IMO.

  14. anna says:

    her website apparently sells this:
    http://i.imgur.com/uinyAIp.png

    plus an artisanal teepee or two
    this abortion of a lifestyle blog…

  15. Isa says:

    I didn’t find out with our third baby because I heard everyone talk about how magical it was.

    I found finding out at the US way more exciting. By the time the baby came I was just so ready to meet my baby that I forgot I didn’t know the sex. I remember saying, “oh it’s a girl.”

    I didn’t even get to announce the sex to family bc a nurse told them and then it got on FB.

    I missed out on a lot of great sales bc gender neutral clothing doesn’t go on sale as often as the blue/pink stuff and there’s a lot less of it!

  16. Style Spy says:

    How very Serena van der Woodsen-y are these photos? Lol!

  17. jess1632 says:

    My parents wanted a happy surprise and waited to find the gender of both my sister and I. They had bought a new house and just left the walls they were so there was no gender specific crap and all sorts colors of baby clothes. On top of that they went into the pregnancy only choosing unisex names sisters name is Sydney my name Jesse

  18. Josefa says:

    I think knowing the gender is a more practical thing, but I can understand not wanting to be showered in super gender-specific gifts. I’ll paint my kids’ nursery green. It’s not even gender-related, really, I just think there’s a lot of really pretty pastel green tones, lol.