Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are a ridiculously good-looking match made in internet troll heaven (not to be confused with internet troll hell). Twelve years and four kids later, these two jokesters are still crazy in love, and frankly, I’m jealous.
So let’s take a look back at how it all began, maybe pick up some ~relationship pointers~ along the way.
July 24, 2010
Blake and Ryan attend their first event together at Comic-Con to promote their movie Green Lantern, and for some reason, they don’t dress in cosplay. As you can tell from this photo, they are super-duper adorable—but the catch? Ryan is still married to Scarlett Johansson.
!["Green Lantern" Panel - Comic-Con 2010](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/gettyimages-103071610-1535645266.jpg?crop=1.00xw:0.705xh;0,0.0289xh&resize=980:* ""Green Lantern" Panel - Comic-Con 2010")
September 2010
Shit is going down! Blake breaks up with her boyfriend and Gossip Girl costar Penn Badgley, but a source tells Us Weekly that “they’re still good friends and hang out on the set.” LOL, sure.
December 2010
More shit is going down! By which I mean Ryan and Scarlett end their marriage. Hmm, two breakups within mere months of each other? Coincidence? I THINK NOT. Sounds like something Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson would pull, if you ask me.
June 15, 2011
Ryan and Blake hit up the red carpet premiere of Green Lantern and they look alllll kinds of cozy.
!["Green Lantern" Los Angeles Premiere - Red Carpet](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/gettyimages-128372069-1535645609.jpg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&resize=980:* ""Green Lantern" Los Angeles Premiere - Red Carpet")
Sometime between June 2011 and October 2011
Blake and Ryan go on a double date, which he describes years later. And I don’t want to be dramatic, but this might be the best celebrity love story ever? “We were buddies then,” Ryan says. “I remember it was funny because for about a year after Green Lantern had come and gone and all that stuff, we were both single. We went on a double date. She was on a date with another guy, and I was on a date with another girl. That was the most awkward date [from their perspective] probably because we were just, like, fireworks coming across.”
But wait, there’s more! In a now-deleted Instagram post celebrating Ryan’s birthday a few years back, Blake revealed the actual restaurant where they fell in love:
Ryan also opened up about this moment, telling GQ, “We were hanging out at this little restaurant in Tribeca that’s open really late, and this song came on and I was just like, ‘Want to dance?’ No one was in there, so it was just totally empty. And it was just one of those moments where halfway through the dance, it was like, ‘Oh, I think I just crossed a line.’ And then I walked her home. And, uh, you know, I don’t really need to go into what happened after that.”
October 22, 2011
Blake is spotted leaving Ryan’s apartment in Boston, and naturally, dating rumors begin to whip around in full force. Meanwhile, People claims the duo “are very much a couple” and “really happy together.”
December 12, 2011
Their relationship is pretty much undeniable when photos of the two of them holding hands after spending the holidays with Ryan’s family in Vancouver hit the internet. Consequently, Blake and Ryan spend the next year or so being hounded by the paps.
September 9, 2012
SURPRISE!!!!! Ryan and Blake shock everyone by getting married after just a year of dating. The wedding is super secret, but we know that it goes down at Boone Hall Plantation in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and that Blake wears a wedding gown by Marchesa.
May 5, 2014
Blake and Ryan attend their first Met Gala together as a married couple. Feelings of extreme jealousy are normal at this point, don’t stress.
!["Charles James: Beyond Fashion" Costume Institute Gala - Candids](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/gettyimages-457631014-1535645658.jpg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&resize=980:* ""Charles James: Beyond Fashion" Costume Institute Gala - Candids")
October 6, 2014
Blake announces on her now-defunct website, Preserve (RIP), that she and Ryan are expecting their first baby.
October 20, 2014
A few months later, the duo hits up another red carpet—only this time, Blake is pregnant and positively ~glowing~.
Late December 2015
Blake and Ryan welcome their daughter James into the world “just before the New Year!” But FYI, we don’t find out her name until March, when Ryan tells the Today show: “It’s James. Everyone knows. I didn’t want to be the first guy screaming it out to the media, because as we know, little girls turn into teenage girls and little teenage girls sometimes scan through the archives and go, ‘Why did you do that?’” (FYI, James was named after Ryan’s father.)
March 10, 2016
Blake and Ryan casually attend a White House state dinner. What, you didn’t? Oh. Weird. Honestly, they look pretty surprised about it too.
April 14, 2016
Us Weekly reports that Blake is pregnant with baby number two after she’s seen sporting what *appears* to be a bump on the set of her movie The Shallows.
July 4, 2016
Blake and Ryan attend Taylor Swift’s annual Fourth of July party and this iconic photo is taken, lolololololololol.
Wow, Ryan clearly looks THRILLED to be there!
September 30, 2016
Page Six reports that Blake has given birth to her second baby, a little girl named Inez. At this point, she and Ryan are suuuper private about their kids, so no formal announcement is made.
December 15, 2016
Flash-forward a few months, and in a shocking twist, Blake and Ryan make their first public appearance with both their kids to celebrate Ryan’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In his speech, Ryan says, “I want to thank my wife, Blake, who is sitting right there, who is everything to me. You are the best thing that has ever happened to me. You make everything better. You make everything in my life better. You’ve given me two of the most incredible children I’ve ever hoped to have.”
May 1, 2017
Ryan and Blake show up at the Met Gala together, looking like f*cking legends.
!["Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between" Costume Institute Gala - Sightings](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/gettyimages-682109314-1535645917.jpg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&resize=980:* ""Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between" Costume Institute Gala - Sightings")
2017 to 2018
Ryan and Blake perfect the art of trolling each other. Priceless moments include her trolling him on his birthday:
Her trolling his baking skills:
And ah, yes, her trolling their entire relationship:
March 22, 2018
Ryan and Blake walk the red carpet together for the first time in almost a year and can’t keep their hands off each other.
!["Final Portrait" New York Screening](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/gettyimages-936713070-1535645987.jpg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&resize=980:* ""Final Portrait" New York Screening")
April 1, 2018
Ryan shuts down rumors that his marriage is in trouble with two perfect tweets.
May 7, 2018
Blake hits the Met Gala solo—but she doesn’t forget Ryan. In fact, she wears a clutch that has a secret shout-out to her entire family:
Here’s a close-up for those of you who are too lazy to zoom in (me):
July 29, 2018
Ryan and Blake attend a Taylor Swift concert and fully flip out when they hear their daughter James’s voice on the song “Gorgeous.”
August 18, 2018
Ryan supports Blake’s new movie A Simple Favor in the best way he knows how…by cracking a joke on Instagram.
October 23, 2018
Blake and Ryan celebrate Ryan’s 42nd birthday with a huge rager! Nah, JK, they just spend the day filling out their voting ballots.
May 2, 2019
Surprise!!! Blake shows up to the Pokémon Detective Pikachu premiere sporting a cute-ass baby bump, which completely overshadows her husband’s movie (sorry, Ry). Baby number three is officially On! The! Way!
August 25, 2019
For Blake’s 32nd birthday, Ryan decides to show her how much he loves her by posting an entire Instagram carousel of her most unflattering photos. What a lovely husband!
October 9, 2019
Multiple outlets confirmed Blake and Ryan welcomed their third baby two months ago. The couple didn’t share baby details and are keeping everything hush-hush to maintain their kids’ privacy.
October 16, 2019
The excited parents shared the first photo of the new addition to their family…but naturally, there was a catch: Ryan and Blake trolled everyone and put a scribbled-on happy face over their baby’s actual face as a joke and also as a way to still have some privacy.
Whatever! We’ll take what we can get at this point! Still cute!
December 12, 2019
When Ryan was asked about his growing family on the Today show, he revealed that he’s pumped to have three daughters now, saying, “It’s all women. I’d have it no other way.” He also joked that having all girls is just part of his master plan “to wipe men off the face of the earth.”
And when they asked how he and Blake chose their newest baby’s name, Ryan continued his comedy routine. He said, “We haven’t yet! We’re going to be original—all of the letters in her name are silent. I want to give her something to push against in life.”
March 17, 2020
Blake and Ryan donate $1 million to multiple food banks, including Feeding America and Food Banks Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic.
June 1, 2020
Blake and Ryan donate $200K to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to support those protesting the murder of George Floyd. In an Instagram post on his grid, Ryan wrote about his dedication to educating his and Blake’s children differently than the way they were raised and taught growing up. He also acknowledged their complicity in systemic racism. Part of the post read:
“We’ve been teaching our children differently than the way our parents taught us. We want to educate ourselves about other people’s experiences and talk to our kids about everything, all of it…especially our own complicity. We talk about our bias, blindness, and our own mistakes. We look back and see so many mistakes, which have led us to deeply examine who we are and who we want to become. They’ve led us to huge avenues of education. We’re committed to raising our kids so they never grow up feeding this insane pattern and so they’ll do their best to never inflict pain on another being consciously or unconsciously. It’s the least we can do to honor not just George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and Eric Garner but all the Black men and women who have been killed when a camera wasn’t rolling.”
July 27, 2020
Swifties everywhere speculated that Taylor Swift revealed the name of Ryan and Blake’s third daughter, Betty, in her song “Betty” on her Folklore album. Naturally, they were right.
August 4, 2020
Eight years after saying “I do” on the Boone Hall slave plantation in South Carolina, Ryan finally opened up about the shame he and Blake feel for getting married there.
“It’s something we’ll always be deeply and unreservedly sorry for,” he told Fast Company. “It’s impossible to reconcile. What we saw at the time was a wedding venue on Pinterest. What we saw after was a place built upon devastating tragedy. Years ago, we got married again at home—but shame works in weird ways. A giant fucking mistake like that can either cause you to shut down or it can reframe things and move you into action. It doesn’t mean you won’t fuck up again. But repatterning and challenging lifelong social conditioning is a job that doesn’t end.”
October 22, 2020
Blake celebrated Ryan’s first time voting in a U.S. election! The couple mailed in their election ballots, and each posted Photoshopped pics on Instagram trolling each other—as they do—once again. Naturally, Blake’s post had a hysterical caption: “It was Ryan’s first time. He was understandably scared. It all happened so fast. Like, REALLY fast. He wept. I pretended to weep. Then he called all his friends. #voteearly”
And of course, Ryan’s post was equally as hilarious:
October 24, 2020
For every special occasion, Ryan and Blake *faithfully* troll each other on the internet. It’s honestly as big of a tradition as the actual occasion at this point. When Ryan turned 44, Blake hopped on Instagram to post a few pics of her hubs celebrating his day with a pie instead of a birthday cake. She wrote, “1) Who is the lost soul that selects birthday PIE. 2) What ANIMAL eats their cake (pie) without first blowing out the candles. @vancityreynolds that’s who. Happy birthday. I honestly can’t believe we’re still married.”
LOL! S’cute.
November 13, 2020
In an interview with Access Hollywood, Ryan opened up about how much he loves being a girl dad, and our hearts instantly swooned.
“I love being a girl dad,” he said. “I have three daughters, which I never in a million years would have imagined. I come from all boys. I have three older brothers. I’m the youngest of four boys, so for me to have three daughters has been such a ride and I love every second of it,” he said.
February 14, 2021
Ryan helping Blake retouch her roots during the pandemic is the epitome of #HusbandGoals. She shared this super-speedy video of him dyeing her hair with the caption, “That time I f*d my hairdresser.” LOL, grade-A caption work, Blake! Brava!
March 31, 2021
A vaccinated king and queen! Both Blake and Ryan shared photos getting vaccinated against COVID-19:
April 23, 2021
Blake wished her bestie supermodel Gigi Hadid a special happy birthday with a photo on Instagram of her, Ryan, and Gigi cuddled up on the couch. Of course, Blake also seized this moment to make a dig at her husband. She captioned the pic, “Happy Birthday @gigihadid…I think you and I make a much better couple.” Besties > testes, amirite?
April 30, 2021
Blake gave us a rare inside scoop into her and Ryan’s date night when the pair attended a Yankees baseball game. And to our viewing pleasure, she documented the whole thing! She called their night out “Mom&Dad Girl Summer” in the caption.
Ryan also couldn’t help but share a selfie of himself and his lady for all his Instagram followers:
May 9, 2021
Even Mother’s Day isn’t safe from Ryan’s endless trolling, and TBH, we’re here for the entertainment! In his post to Blake for the day, he captioned the super-cute photo, “Every blink and every thoughtful moment of vulnerability. The tender grit it takes to be a mother in 2021 is an act of pure strength and heroism. Never could I have predicted anonymous airport bathroom sex would lead to this. Or how you’d hire Dog the Bounty Hunter to find me. Either way, I’m lucky to reflect a little of the sunlight you shine on all of us. Happy Mother’s Day, my love.”
July 20, 2021
Ryan finally revealed that he made the first move on Blake when they first got together more than 10 years ago. Yes, our fave celeb couple has been together for more than a decade! Check out these juicy deets:
“I met Blake on the darkest crease in the anus of the universe called Green Lantern,” he said when appearing on the SmartLess podcast. “We were friends and buddies.…About a year and a half later, we went on a double date, but we were dating separate people,” he said. “Next thing you know, she was going to Boston, I was going to Boston, and I said, ‘Well, I’ll ride with you.’ We got on the train and we rode together. I was just begging her to sleep with me.”
August 2, 2021
Blake and Ryan did the *sweetest* thing to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of their first date: They went back to the place where it all started! The two enjoyed dinner at Boston’s beloved Japanese restaurant O Ya. While at the spot, Blake said on her Instagram Story that “if it weren’t for this place, we wouldn’t be together. No joke. No restaurant means more to us.” Awww.
August 6, 2021
Just a year after Taylor Swift released “Betty” on her Folklore album, Ryan opened up on Sirius XM’s The Jess Cagle Show about how he and Blake feel about their daughter’s name being featured in the track. “The names are the names of our kids but, you know, we trust her implicitly,” he said. “She’s very sensitive to any of that stuff, and obviously the song has nothing to do with our kids other than our kids’ names.”
August 25, 2021
To celebrate Blake’s 34th birthday, Ryan did what, you ask? Oh, just his usual shenanigans of sprinting to social media to troll her. For the occasion, Ryan shared a TikTok duet he created with Mariah Carey (casual) to his Instagram Story, writing, “My favorite thing that’s ever happened on August 25th.”
October 17, 2021
Ryan announced on Instagram that he was taking a break from acting.
As expected, Blake responded by lovingly teasing him in the comments. “Michael Caine did it first,” she wrote.
November 8, 2021
Ryan sat down with Entertainment Tonight and shared the secrets to his marriage with Blake, which melted our hearts with a quickness. “We don’t take each other too seriously, but we’re also friends,” he said. “Falling in love is great, but do you like each other? That’s kinda the question you gotta ask yourself, you know, going into it.”
January 31, 2022
Blake and Ryan were spotted strolling the streets on a super-cold NYC day and the couple were all bundled up in matching navy blue coats and denim jeans. And of course, they were hand in hand…because true love does exist!
February 14, 2022
Blake shared the *perfect* Valentine’s Day tribute to Ryan on Instagram. “Find me a better friend. ♥️ I’ll wait…” she captioned the post, which showed her and her hubby blurredly laughing together (the best kind of laugh). A-freakin’-dorable!
March 1, 2022
Blake and Ryan stunned on the red carpet for the New York City movie premiere of his latest film The Adam Project. Can we just say she looks like an *actual princess* in this pastel Atelier Versace couture gown?
May 2, 2022
Blake and Ryan were two of the cochairs for the Met Gala this year and they certainly did not disappoint when it came to the ~lewks~. Blake wore a copper Atelier Versace gown inspired by iconic New York City architecture like Grand Central Station, the Empire State Building, and the Statue of Liberty. As she walked up the stairs, her gown transformed into a stunning turquoise color, and she explained to Vogue that it was “patinaed” like the Statue of Liberty.
Other than Blake being a complete showstopper, the way she and Ryan look at each other on the carpet breathes literal hope into my deceased dating life. I mean, seriously, can you EVEN take them?!
August 5, 2022
Blake posts a bikini pic and tags Ryan, so yep, things are still thirsty ahead of their 10-year anni.
September 18, 2022
Blake confirms that she and Ryan are expecting their fourth child with a buncha cute pregnancy pics! And she calls out the paps in the process.
November 17, 2022
Blake and Ryan show up to the 36th Annual American Cinematheque Awards!
And Blake gives a super-sweet speech honoring Ryan:
December 6, 2022
After Ryan wins the Icon Award at the People’s Choice Awards, he gushes about Blake and their children in his acceptance speech. Read it and weep 🤧:
“It’s gonna be a fourth child very soon. If it happens tonight while I’m here, I will be looking for a couch to sleep on for a little while.…But Blake and my girls, you are quite literally my heart, my hope, my happiness,” he says. “I joke that my family exhausts me, but in reality you give me more strength than any man could possibly deserve.”
February 12, 2023
On Super Bowl Sunday, Blake reveals that baby number four is here!!! The actor confirms the news in *the* most Blake way possible by sharing a photo of herself ~casually~ no longer pregnant. “Puppy Bowl Sunday 2023 🥘🍲🥧 been busy,” she captions the pic, taken alongside Ryan and his mother.
Many of Blake’s followers left the most LOL-worthy comments, including this one: “She discreetly gives birth and then looks like this right afterwards in a tight shirt. She’s good at this. 😂” Tbh, no truer words have been said.
March 23, 2023
The whole fam takes a trip to Wrexham, Wales, to watch Ryan’s team, Wrexham FC, play York City (Wrexham won 3-0, btw!), and the Deadpool actor shares tons of pics on his Insta.
April 7, 2023
🔥🔥🔥 vacay content, incoming….
April 19, 2023
While out in New York City, the pair dress in matching beige-and-blue ’fits and hold hands. 🥺❤️
May 28, 2023
Blake reposts a pic of Ryan on her Instagram Story and doesn’t hold back on her feelings for her husband. The Gossip Girl alumna even includes a warning sticker and a caption over the pic that reads, “Caution: extra spicy,” as well as some hot sauce bottles and a cartoon animal breathing fire among other iconic GIFs and emojis.
July 30, 2023
Since production on Blake's upcoming flick It Ends With Us has halted due to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild of America strikes, that means Blake and Ryan have more downtime. The couple went out for a romantic stroll in Paris on Sunday, July 30 (🥹) and walked hand-in-hand down the streets.
Of course, Blake and Ryan dressed for the occasion in chic casual looks. The Gossip Girl alumna wore a tailored pinstripe jacket with a floral midi dress and paired it with Nike sneakers and a pink Chanel bag. Ryan opted for a white tee paired with a button-down shirt, trousers, Adidas sneakers, and a baseball cap.
Say what you want, but these two are clearly as in love as ever.
Aaand that brings us up to date on Blake and Ryan’s love! Do you have hope yet??! Stay tuned for the next installment of “Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds Put All Other Couples to Shame: A Fairy Tale.” ’Cause, oh, it’s coming.
Rosemary is an Associate Editor on the Emerging Platforms team at Cosmopolitan. When she isn’t covering lifestyle stories or the latest pop culture news on the brand's Snapchat Discover channel, she can be found living her best life at the nearest Harry Styles concert, on the beach making TikToks, or curating the best Spotify playlists (go ahead and see for yourself, here).
