I’m having a love-hate relationship with Blake Lively’s coat in these photos from Wednesday in NYC. This was my reaction: “Oh, that coat is great… wait… no it’s not… 1980s wallpaper fug… butterfly what?… maybe it depends on the lighting… wait, maybe it’s okay after all?” So, I guess in the end I’ve come down on the side of thinking the coat is okay. The fit is great, the butterflies are too much, but from a distance it looks amazing.
Anyway, Blake has been all over the place this week, with the Met Gala, the Gucci Chime for Change event and then she’s just been out and about, getting photographed in NYC like in these photos. She’s also been talking to the press. And even though she’s really taken a step back from her acting career and her red carpet fashionista career over the past few years, it’s interesting to note that Blake hasn’t changed that much. She’s still trying to convince people that she doesn’t go to the gym, she loves chocolate and red carpets scare her. Some highlights from a few interviews:
Her post-Met Gala activity: ”I went to Serendipity… had frozen hot chocolate with extra peanut butter sauce on the side. Closed that place down! That’s how I do an after party!”
She loves to cook: ”I like to cook… I use a lot of fresh ingredients, which really does make a huge difference. It’s easier to be healthy when eating things that are fresh, because they are often fruits and vegetables, but I also live a very active lifestyle.”
She hates the gym: ”I’ve said before I hate the gym, I eat chocolate, yes that part is true. But what they don’t print is I hate the gym, so what I do instead is find other ways to be active… I ride bicycles, I hike, I go out and exercise in nature and I’m active that way.”
She claims her hair is a “shield”: “I hide behind it a bit because red carpets can be intimidating. And when my hair is in my face, I feel less exposed.”
Preparing for the red carpet: “I am so not confident on the red carpet. I just sit there thinking, ‘What would Gisele do?’ It is such a sensory overload. I’ve seen Solange [Knowles] perform in front of 90,000 people and I saw her [at the Met Gala] and was thinking, ‘Oh, why do we do this? This red carpet is always so scary.’ I saw her take a deep breath and put her performance face on, and you really have to do that. I’m not comfortable as me standing in front of 500 photographers, so I have to go somewhere else and pretend that I’m the confident person you hopefully expect me to be.”
[From Contact Music and HuffPo]
Frozen hot chocolate with peanut butter sauce on the side? I don’t get it. Obviously, I don’t do gourmet desserts all that often, but is “frozen hot chocolate” really a thing? Is it just chocolate milk, or is it like a frozen block of previously hot chocolate?
As for her talk about how she isn’t confident on red carpets… gurl, please. Her problem was never a lack of confidence. She’s always loved being photographed, and I can tell because for several years, she would go to the opening of an envelope and all she could talk about was how “fun” it was to style herself.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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