Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are a golden couple in Tinseltown. From Hollywood hits to entrepreneurial endeavours, they’re among the industry’s most successful multimillionaire pairings. But to James, Inez and Betty, they’re just mum and dad.

Meet Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively’s kids: James, Inez and Betty

In addition to their new 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢, the former Sexiest Man Alive, 47, and Met Gala queen, 36, currently have three girls: James, eight, Inez, seven, and Betty, four.

Meanwhile, Inez is the sassy one who’s more into Disney villains than princesses. Even her paediatrician noticed that she had a big personality, calling her “shady”, Reynolds told People. She might also be the one to eventually take after her fashionista mother though, as Lively shared an Instagram Story in 2021 of an all-pink outfit her daughter had chosen for her.

Reynolds loves being a ‘girl dad’

The wisecracking Welcome to Wrexham star has repeatedly quipped about being a “girl dad” on talk shows, saying that coming from a family of all boys means the whole experience has been fascinating for him. During a discussion at the Cannes Film Festival last year, he joked: “They’re wild. I think they have rabies sometimes.”

Taylor Swift is known as ‘Auntie Taylor’

During an interview on The Jess Cagle Show, Reynolds said that for the first few years of their lives, his daughters had no idea Swift was a famous pop star. He said they just thought she was “like an aunt, like a friend of mummy and daddy’s that’s very, very close, almost family”.

Self-awareness is more important than happiness

“Part of my job as a parent is to model behaviours and model what it’s like to be sad, and model what it’s like to be anxious or angry – that there’s space for all these things,” the Spirited actor told Entertainment Tonight in 2021.

Anti nepo babies? Reynolds doesn’t want his kids to be child actors

Despite – or perhaps because of – the couple’s own fame, Reynolds has said he doesn’t want his children to get involved with acting, especially while they’re still young. “Putting a kid in a business like this, it’s generally not about the kid,” he told People magazine. “It’s usually about the parents.”

He also told the Today show that he worries about what James wants to be when she grows up, joking that he likes to “whisper in her ear normal everyday jobs”. “‘You’re going to be a flight attendant … a barista … Just normal, wonderful jobs that you can have a nice, normal life [with],’” he recalled.