‘Nothing I Do Is Without Him’

Blake Lively says she leans on husband Ryan Reynolds for almost everything.

The actress spoke about launching her haircare line Blake Brown while on a episode of WWD’s The Beauty of Tomorrow podcast that aired on Thursday, Jan. 15.

At one point in the discussion, host Jenny B. Fine asked Lively, 38, if she consulted Reynolds, 49, for business advice along the way.

“We talk shop all the time. We really are partners in everything just because we’re best friends,” said Lively. “We talk shop about, like, if I make the coffee I’m like, ‘What did you like about that? What were the details?’ We’re very curious people.”

“We become sort of possessed by something that we’re building or creating, something that inspires us,” she continued. “And that could be something very mundane or it can be our work. Our family is something we are eternally trying to figure out how to do better.”

Lively and Reynolds, who costarred together in the 2011 superhero movie Green Lantern, married in 2012. They share four children: daughters: James, 11, Inez, 9, and Betty, 6, plus son Olin, 2½.

“We’re just buddies. We’re partners,” Lively said during the podcast appearance. “Just watching him do what he’s done and how he lives and how he operates. And also he’s been my male tester for all of my fragrances, my formulas, my everything. He’s always stealing them from me. So down to literally being my test strands of hair, to being somebody who I rely on for every facet of the business and my life. Nothing I do is without him.”

Later in the interview, Lively said her loved ones are what makes her happiest.

“My family is all over everything I do, across any of my brands or any film I’m in. Everything I do, I can see them all over it,” she said. “People don’t see it because I don’t share my family as much, but I see the imprint of my family, from my husband to my children to my mom and my sisters, my brothers, all over my work.”

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Lively’s podcast sit-down comes during her ongoing legal battle with Justin Baldoni, her director and costar from the 2024 film It Ends With Us. In December 2024, she sued Baldoni, 41, and others for sexual harassment and retaliation, which he denies. The trial is set for May 2026.

Baldoni filed a countersuit against Lively and Reynolds, accusing them of defamation and extortion, but that has since been dismissed by the judge.

In June 2025, Lively spoke out about the case and said she felt “more resolved than ever to continue to stand for every woman’s right to have a voice in protecting themselves, including their safety, their integrity, their dignity and their story.”

Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman told TMZ in June that Baldoni “wants to be vindicated, and that’s all that he cares about.” He added that Baldoni is “waiting for his day in court, where he can speak out to tell the truth.”