Blake Lively Reveals the Reason She Married Ryan Reynolds

Blake Lively sparkles on the new July 2016 cover of Marie Claire magazine.

Here’s what the 28-year-old The Shallows actress had to share with the mag:

On family being the number one thing in her life: “That’s where my heart is. That’s where my everything is.”

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.”

For more on Blake, visit MarieClaire.com.

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