OHMYGOSSIP — Ryan Reynolds wants to have a “big family” with wife Blake Lively. The actor secretly married the Gossip Girl star in September 2012. Speaking to the August 2013 issue of Details, the hunky R.I.P.D. star explained why he rarely talks about their marriage, and his desire to have lots of kids.
“I don’t intentionally try to be evasive about that stuff. If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean — words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly in an interview,” he said.
“It’s a strange thing. I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it’s just tough and almost emotionally violent — for anyone, I think — to see your personal life summarized in a sentence.
“We’d love to have a big family. We both come from big families — my parents did four, Blake’s did five. A lot of people say it’s crazy, but we’ll only know when we’re there, you know? We’ll walk through that fire pretty happily, I think.
“I’m terrified that I’m genetically predisposed to only having boys. That’s frightening. By the time I was 10 years old, and I’m not exaggerating, I knew how to patch drywall. There’s nothing my brothers and I didn’t put a hole in. We turned our home into a Wiffle house. That’s something I’m not looking forward to.
“I wanted to get an earring when I was 13. My brothers said that was a terrible idea and that as soon as Dad — a very, very obsessively strict cop, a tough guy — sees your Wham! starter kit, you’re dead. Like, literally dead. He will turn you into a liquid. But I said, ‘I don’t care. I’m gonna do it.’”