Celebrity Weekly: Blake Lively- "Hollywood's Returning It Girl"

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"It's the choice you have everyday to say, 'There is no reason today can't be the best day of my life"

Blake Lively Has been the center of attention in many plot lines, and runways. Well this Gossip Girl has her story, and I am going to tell it to you.

Blake Lively was born August 25, 1987 in Tarzana in California. She was born to Ernie Lively, and Elaine Lively. She has 1 older brother, two half-sisters, and one half- brother. In all Her entire family has had some type of entertainment career. From A very young age she went along with her parents to the acting classes they taught. There is where she found the love for acting. 

While in High School her brother Eric got her a couple of audition, and she landed the role Bridget for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. She was still in High School when she shot the film. It earned her a Teen Choice Award Nomination for “Choice Movie Breakout-Female”. This is when she began to get into the spotlight. She had other movie roles such as “Accepted”, “Simon Says”, etc., which gave her breakthrough roles, and awards. 

In 2007, she was later cast as the Scandalous Serena Vander Woodsen, which premiered that September. This was probably her biggest role since SHTP. It lasted until 2012 when the show ended. She also dated her co-star Penn Badgley, but they ended their 3-year relationship in 2010. Her first magazine cover was the November 2007 issue of Cosmo Girl, where she discussed her time in high school and her career prior to Gossip Girl. In 2009, she reprised her role in the sequel to SHTP 2, and was highly praised by critics. It grossed over $44 million @ the box office. She also appeared as a minor role in “New York, I Love You”, which did not go well in box office. That same year she starred in one of her most acclaimed roles to date, her supporting role playing the younger version of the title character in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee.

 In June 2011, Lively starred as Carol Ferris, the female lead and love interest of Hal Jordan, in the superhero film Green Lantern. She played opposite her now husband Ryan Gosling. The two began dating in October 2011. Even though the movie did not gross to where they hoped, the movie grossed $219,851,172 worldwide. She was featured in the annual TIME magazine 100 influential people that year. Additionally, AskMen.com named her the most desirable woman of 2011. 

In 2012, People magazine named her one of 2012's Most Beautiful at Every Age. In She starred in Oliver Stone's Savages she replaced JLAW as Ophelia when she took the part on The Hunger Games. That same year, she was selected as the face of the new Gucci fragrance titled Gucci Premiere. She also got married to Ryan Reynolds. She appeared in a short film ad directed by Nicolas Winding Refn for the fragrance. In 2013, she became the new face of L’Oreal, marking her first major makeup campaign. Lively gave birth to her daughter James in December 2014. She recently starred in the movie Age of Adaline as Adaline an immortal woman. 

So you have read her story are you falling in love with this Beauty Queen yet because she is one the rise again, and you not want to miss this ride.