“I knew Ryan Would Always Be My Best Friend For my Whole Life” – Blake Lively Covers Marie Claire’s July 2016 Issue

Hollywood actress and Super stylish Mummy Blake Lively is hot on the cover of Marie Claire‘s July 2016 Issue.

In the magazine, she talks about the number-one thing in her life “my family. That’s where my heart is. That’s where my everything is and that’s the thing that I feel most protective of and the thing that I feel is the most exposed when I feel exploited”.

Here are a few highlights from her interview:

On why she wanted to marry Ryan Reynolds:
“I knew he would always be my best friend for my whole life. That was the biggest thing to me. I’d never known anything like the friendship that I had with him. I could like him as much as I loved him.”

On the paparazzi and her daughter:
“I’d rather not have to deal with it at all, but we knew the lifestyle we were getting into, and while it’s hard…it’s another thing when it’s our child. She didn’t have the opportunity to make a decision about what she wants.”

On not wanting to be involved in the entertainment industry like her family:
“I didn’t want to be an actor, because they were all doing it. When you’re the youngest of five kids, you think, Who am I? If this is who they are, and they’re shaping who I am so much, then who would I be? You strive for your own identity.”

On raising her children:
“Ryan had a nice, normal upbringing, and we want our kids to have the same normal life that we had. We don’t ever want to rob them of what we had, because we’d feel really selfish.”

The July issue of Marie Claire with Blake Lively will be out on newsstands from Tuesday, June 21st 2016

For more on Blake Lively, head over to Marie Claire