Blake Lively has a feature in the new issue of O Magazine, likely as some early promotion for her first film role in years, in The Age of Adeline. Have you seen the trailers for The Age of Adeline? I’m not impressed. But the costumes look cute. And that’s probably enough – plus the fact that she’s now part of the Motherhood Industrial Complex – to get Blake several major magazine covers for April and May. She didn’t score the cover of O Mag (only Oprah gets the cover!!), but O Mag did do a photoshoot with Blake. I don’t understand why her mouth is open? Do we have to make SexyFace even for OPRAH?!
Anyway, in the O Magazine interview, Blake talks about eating and knitting and how of course she loves to do some work on her motorcycle. She’s sort of like The Cool Girl’s cousin, The Cool Wife. All about food and child-rearing and letting her husband “teach” her how to do fun stuff that he likes to do. Some highlights:
Her stress-relievers: “I’ll knit or cook — or work on a motorcycle, a skill my husband is teaching me. One of my latest projects was painting nature-inspired throw pillows.”
How she spends a day off: “Walking through New York City. It’s constantly changing. I’ll go back to an area I visited four years ago, and it’s completely different. But that’s a good thing because it means there will always be new neighborhoods to eat my way through.”
On her best childhood memory: “My mom liked to infuse my life with a lot of magic. When she read my fortune cookies, the predictions were full of princesses and castles and jewels and pirates. When I got old enough to read them, I was shocked to find out how boring they really were!”
On her favorite quick recipe: “Hot fudge sundae. But forget the fake syrupy stuff; Melt down a bar of chocolate, mix it into some warmed up whipping cream, and put it on top of ice cream. Add some sprinkles, and you’ve got a delicious treat.”
[From O Magazine, via The Daily Mail]
Well… okay. I’m going to try to be less nitpicky about Blake, so I’ll give her this: I like how she consistently talks about enjoying all kinds of food. I’m sure she eats mostly healthy food, but I also get the feeling that all of her cupcakes/cookies/sundaes talk is for real, that she will sit down and eat buttery popcorn and top it off with a small ice cream sundae, because life’s too short. And I like that about her, really. I get tired of self-appointed health-monitoring celebrities trying to convince me that kale smoothies are the height of indulgence.
Last thing: painting nature-inspired throw pillows? She totally spoiled the next Preserve essay!!!!
Photos courtesy of Guy Aroch/O Magazine & Fame/Flynet.
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Exactly. She is boring. I am increasingly annoyed at her attempts at being the next Doyenne of Domesticity. I just love how they try to properly balance her activities with the traditional home ec. fare to the postmodern feminist mechanic. Yes, Blake, you can do everything; you get a gold star. Will she show us how she boils rice next week? SMH
+ 1000
Agree x10000 she’s incredibly boring. We should stop make her happen.
So so dull. A terrible actress, a laughable “lifestyle guru,” a total moron – this woman is becoming almost as annoying as Kartrashian. Paltrow is probably laughing her ass off over this.
I get really turned off by the idea that I’m just like you because I eat crap. It’s not scandalous to have an ice cream or cupcakes.
She reminds me of “cool girl” in Gone Girl.
Oh man I’d love that sundae she described right now. Alas, no dairy for me. Curse you lactose intolerance.
Get some Lactose free ice cream and try this:
Scoop out some Nutella and microwave for 20-30 seconds, drizzle on and enjoy. Orgasmic!
I live in St. Kitts and although lactose free milk is an easy get lactose free ice-cream not so much. Thanks for the recipe though. I have Nutella and I do intend to try that as soon as I manage to get my hands on some lactose free ice-cream.
I’m sure you’ve heard this, but blend a frozen banana. So creamy just like ice cream.
I really wish she was more specific about her tinkering on motorcycles (and why). Is she fixing them? Polishing them?! What?
I need to know for when I marry Keanu…
Blake couldn’t find a spark plug on a 2-stroke. You just keep your toenails trimmed and pretty 😉 and you’ll be just fine, Hudson Girl.
Her husband said “my wife is like an alien, as if McGiver had a child with Brigitte Bardot.” So, probably she is good at understanding and dealing with mechanics. I am too, by the way. I read somewhere that the best luxury car mechanics are women.
Actually spit my tea at the Keanu comment. Anyone else re-watching speed after the wicked pics of him the other day?
I re-watched all three Matrix movies a couple of weeks ago and hot damn, Keanu was friggin’ gorgeous in those movies!!!!!
@Hudsongirl you are gonna have to fight me for Keanu and also my mom. Actually it’s my mom any other Keanu lover should be watching out for. She gets very territorial during his movies and likes to remind everyone around her that we were all babies when he first hit the scene lol.
That’s hilarious, Lauren. Sit down ladies, Keanu has been CLAIMED.
HAHA.
Y’know George Clooney has quite a collection as well.
Anyway, Ryan Reynolds is a complete motorhead and has crap loads of motorbikes so I can believe he’s trying (but failing) to teach her stuff.
Well my boyfriend’s trying to initiate me right now
Pretentious. As if she actually does all that. I believe she really cooks but that’s as far as my belief goes. This “you can have it all and be super mom” is so trite.
True. She tries too hard all the time, she wants to come off as approachable and available but she just ends up sounding pretentious and fake imho.
x1000. She seriously grates on my nerves. No one is THAT perfect.
Whateverzzzzzzz……
This is what the ‘pixie, wonder-girl’ stereo-type has to transition to? The pixie, wonder-girl who can bake (and fix motor-cycles?)
I see she neglected to mention pining for bygone slave eras as a fav past time. Its jyust a matter of time brfore this rodent begins collecting slave memorabillia because I mean how cool was that era, right Blake?
I saw someone selling “authentic” slave shackles on Etsy and I wanted to vom.
I can only recommend knitting and crocheting to everybody who has problems with stress. It helps me more than everything else.
Very Very True.
I recommend scrubbing your floors on your hands and knees. That’s how I got through my exam stress.
I find that too, also cross stitch.
Please, I beg the gossip Gods. Can we just skip Goop 2.0? She irritates the bejesus out of me. Even more than Goop herself, and I can’t believe anyone could do that.
I agree! And I learned to do both watching YouTube videos. I spend more time than I should waiting for doctors and it’s so easy to bring a hook/needle and some yarn along.
Cooking is my biggest stress reliever too. I just find preparing meals and cooking them so relaxing. It’s my zen time.
Same here. Music in the background and nobody rushing me because they’re “starving.”
Agreed 100%.
And Blake is on to a hiding no matter what she says.
When even vanilla, harmless interviews like these can start a catty frenzy, I say stick to your cooking topics girl!
Cooking is a major stress reliever for me too, if I can work up the energy to get something started-then I just fly through it and feel a lot calmer during and after.
She definitely pours on the sickening sweet domestic goddess thing, but frankly, somebody is always going to be trying to corner the market on the domestic goddess thing since Martha Steward faded into oblivion. I’ll take Lively or the Goopster any day. ANY DAY!
For real?
Martha built her whole career on being a domestic goddess. Yeah she seems like a total bitch but she built her empire on her own sweat. While there is room for more domestic lifestyle advice, neither Goop nor Lively are it for people who really cook. I cook and experiment with cooking a lot and a recipe from an actress who has a side hobby at blogging does not interest me.
Martha forever!
Martha is far from irrelevant or in oblivion, she’s 73 and could wipe the floor with any of these beige bitches like Goop or Flake Lively if she even tried.
And that’s because she’s actually competent at it, unlike Lively whose specialty is attempting to use verbose and plagiarised purple prose to sell shoddily wrapped products.
@Jennifer Justice – Agreed.
I’ve actually bought jewellry from her site and love it.
Who cares how its wrapped. People just need a reason to be angry
It’s doing well, for its audience.
Good for her and the other ‘**** b-itches
Are the nature inspired throw pillows for the motorcycle?
She’s right about the cooking thing…I just sort of go into the zone when I’m creating a meal. I’m the real spice girl, I have 2 cupboards full, so the kitchen generally smells heavenly. I think I must have been a spice merchant in a previous life. Last night it was turkey/black bean chili with roasted poblano chilies, fresh ground cumin, bitter dark chocolate and a smidgen of liquid smoke.
Omg I’m coming to your house for dinner tonight!
Another boring person trying to make herself relevant. Nobody cares if she wants to be another Goopster.
I guess I’m in a minority; I can’t WAIT to see the Age of Adaline.
Then again, I love flicks like that
Pass the popcorn, I want in too!
And still no baby name.
They are milking it for all it’s worth. It’s pretty lame, imo.
seriously, she’s been irrelevant for ages now, the thing she milks most for fame is the fact that she is married to Scarlett Johansson’s ex-husband.
It’s not even as if she’s good at the lifestyle gig, I’ve known people (idiots) who bought things from her website and were surprised that they arrived in shoddy wrapping. And the website is a purple prose mess.
@oneshot
Really? That sucks….I was curious to know how her blog was doing, I guess not really well then! The stuff she sells is so over priced.
Well, I’m throwing in the White Flag on this.
I was a Blake fan (her style not acting), but she just hit the tryhard trifecta.
1. Skinny girl talking about food and eating.
2. Pretty girl you wouldn’t expect to know about mechanics to claim they know and enjoy muscle/manly related things. Some do, but they don’t only say it for attention. They just do it.
3. Stereotypical female hobbies (knitting) that go well with her lifestyle website.
I hung in there, but she’s gone off the deep end here.