Balancing her marriage, life, and children is clearly quite an undertaking for Blake Lively. It’s also clear that she and Ryan Reynolds work hard in every single aspect of their lives. Lively did admit, though, that she had to tone down her workaholic tendencies and take breaks to simply be with her children and husband sometimes, particularly because one of her first big projects was so labor-intensive.
“I’m used to working hard and going and going and going and going and not stopping,” Lively told Amber Tamblyn, referencing the television show that catapulted her to international fame and acclaim. “Especially, ‘Gossip Girl’ was six years of my life, and we were sometimes shooting three episodes at once.”
Lively famously played socialite Serena van der Woodsen in the original “Gossip Girl” and stuck with the show for six seasons from 2007 to 2012. Though she had already worked on the first “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” film and the Justin Long-led comedy “Accepted” by then, the CW series catapulted her to a brand new level of fame and made her a superstar, launching her career in a completely different way. Now Lively has her pick of projects — as does Reynolds.
