Ryan Reynolds claims he and his wife Blake Lively grew up quite working-class

Ryan Reynolds claims he and his wife Blake Lively grew up quite working-class

Ryan Reynolds, who shares kids James, Inez, Betty and Olin with Blake Lively, explained how his and his wife’s upbringings in working class families have influenced the way they parent their children.

Ryan Reynolds is getting dead serious about his and Blake Lively’s parenting styles.

The Deadpool star—who shares daughters James, 9, Inez, 7, Betty, 5, and son Olin, born in 2023, with the It Ends With Us actress—recently detailed how he and his wife are using their own childhood experiences as a reference to help them parent their kids.

“We try to give them as normal a life as possible,” Ryan told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Dec. 13. “I try not to impose upon them the difference in their childhood to my childhood or my wife’s childhood.”

He added, “We both grew up very working class, and I remember when they were very young, I used to say or think, like, ‘Oh God, I would never have had a gift like this when I was a kid,’ or, ‘I never would’ve had this luxury of getting takeout,’ or whatever.”

Despite her relatively normal childhood, Blake, 37, grew up around the entertainment industry with her late dad Ernie Lively working as an actor and director, even giving Blake her first acting job, and her mom Elaine Lively as a talent agent in the entertainment industry.

But as Ryan stressed, his kids comparing their childhoods to those of his and Blake’s is not their responsibility.