Ryan Reynolds on fatherhood: ‘I’m just a normal parent’

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45-year-old Ryan Reynolds does not hesitate to admit parental mistakes. Last Tuesday, the actor took part in a discussion titled “Creativity at the pace of culture” held in Cannes. During his speech, he talked a lot and frankly about the family and raising three young daughters from his marriage to 34-year-old Gossip Girl star Blake Lively – 2-year-old Betty, 5-year-old Ines and 7-year-old James.

I am a parent of three girls. They are wild. I think that sometimes they have rabies, – the actor joked about the hyperactivity of his daughters.

Reynolds noted that he learned a lot by communicating with each of the girls individually – first of all, patience.

I’m like any parent – sooner or later the moment will come when I just break loose, – he admitted, – It’s not so much what you are doing at the moment, but what you are doing later.

The Deadpool star believes that the only way to learn anything in life is from your own mistakes.

I often tell my children, “Don’t waste your mistakes.” When you slip up, it’s easy to give in to shame and the thought that you did something wrong, but you should also look at it critically and use the failure as a stepping stone to learning something deeper.

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively met on the set of Green Lantern in 2010, but they didn’t get romantic until a year later. In 2012, they secretly got married, and their first daughter, James, was born on December 16, 2014. Her sister Ines – September 28, 2016. The girl’s first “exit” to the world happened only in 2018 – she accompanied her dad at the opening ceremony of his personal star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Blake announced her third pregnancy in May 2019, appearing with her husband at the premiere of the animated film Pokemon. Detective Pikachu, where Ryan played the legendary Pokemon.

The fact that Ryan and Blake became parents for the third time became known in October 2019, but the happy event, according to insiders, happened in the family of actors back in August. The gender of the newborn baby Ryan reported in an unusual way. In a post about the Canadian elections, he shared the gender balance of power in his family – he now has three daughters. However, the girl’s face the world saw only in January 2020 thanks to the efforts of the paparazzi. And her name was revealed in the summer of the same year by singer Taylor Swift, a family friend. In her composition called “Betty” the names Inez and James are mentioned – that is the name of the daughters of Ryan and Blake. Betty is the third heroine of the song. Later, this information was confirmed by People journalists, who contacted the couple’s representatives.