The following article contains references to sexual harassment.
Over the course of two decades,Lively has had an incredible transformation.
It was just like any job to them.
Despite this, life hasn’t always been easy for Lively.
In April 2018, Lively shared a snap onInstagramof herself next to Big Bird from “Sesame Street.”
Here’s to making best buddies with the things that once hurt you."
“It was the only school where people were just downright mean to me.
When the show premiered in 2007,the castof up-and-coming actors were catapulted to fame.
However, the actor later claimed she was sold the show under false pretenses.
During an August 2017 interview withVanity Fair, the actor revealed that she initially turned down the role.
“I said, ‘No, I want to go to college.
Thank you, though.’
After the first year [of the show], it’ll quiet down.
Your life will go back to normal and you’ve got the option to start going to school.
We can’t put it in writing, but we promise you’re free to go.'
So that’s why I said, ‘O.K.
I’ll do this,'” Lively explained.
Unfortunately, as she put it, there was a reason they couldn’t put this agreement in writing.
I thought, ‘I’m going to keep going during this take unless I pass out.’
I was in so much pain for a week.”
“When we were in the tank, there were so many chemicals my skin would just fall off.
… Then you’re rubbing against these rocks and these buoys.
Your body is just really taking a beating,” the actor remarked.
Fortunately, Lively’s efforts resulted in a fun creature feature and demonstrated her range as an actor.
Some ofLively’s co-stars haven’t been her biggest fanseither, including Anna Kendrick and Leighton Meester.
“There have been so many things written about me that are untrue and horrifying.
I can’t even believe that my family has to read this stuff.”
People like to gossip.
They bond over it.
They don’t bond over complimenting famous people."
Many celebrities spoke out in solidarity about their own experiences, prompting the #MeToo Movement to take hold.
“He was saying things inappropriately, insisting on putting my lipstick on with his finger.
I was sleeping one night on location and I woke up and he was filming me.
I was clothed, but it was a very voyeuristic, terrifying thing to do,” she recounted.
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“There’s one-shot fight sequences, which is how I shattered my hand.
We shut down [production] for six months.
My hand basically turned into feta cheese,” she said.
“I broke some things and dislocated some things and severed a ligament,” she remarked.
I gave my right hand for something!"
Over the years, Blake Lively has been transparent about her insecurities about her body.
I’m guilty myself of being at a photo shoot and saying, ‘That looks terrible on me.’
And they’re like, ‘We’ll fix it.'"
Lively’s insecurities spiked around the time she had given birth.
“No one had samples that fit me after giving birth.
And so many clothes from stores didn’t fit either.
It’s alienating and confusing.”
… Blake would jump in, grab the keyboard and [say] ‘What about this?’
And I’d be like, ‘That’s incredible.'"
He continued, saying, “Maybe it’s because there’s inherent sexism in the business.
I will say that a lot of times, ‘She wrote that, Blake wrote that not me.
That was her.’
And they still, later on, repeat the story as [if] I wrote it.”
I moved to Utah because of the snow, but I haven’t been able to ski.
I literally didn’t have the heart to do it.
However, she did share a photo of herself and her dad as a tribute on her Instagram story.
