It’s hard to picture a time Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds weren’t together. But remember when Serena van der Woodsen was IRL dating Dan Humphrey? And Ryan Reynolds was married to ScarJo? Yup. That was after his Alanis relationship.
And yet it’s officially been 12 years since the couple wed in 2012, eventually becoming a mainstay Hollywood power couple while raising four children along the way. No matter how much they troll each other online, it’s abundantly clear these two are ride or die for their family of six.
Let’s take a look at how they got to where they are, through every major step in Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’s relationship timeline, with the most recent developments up top.
2025
January 16, 2025: Justin Baldoni officially sues Lively and Reynolds, as well as Lively’s publicist Leslie Sloane and her firm, Vision PR, for $400 million, accusing the defendants of “extortion, defamation, and further wrongdoing.” You can read Lively’s response to the lawsuit here.
Among the accusations against Lively throughout the 179-page complaint, Baldoni accuses Reynolds of “berating” him during a meeting with the film’s producers, launching into an “aggressive tirade” that Baldoni described as “traumatic.” The lawsuit also claims Reynolds and a “megacelebrity friend” helped Lively pressure Baldoni into accepting her version of the film’s pivotal rooftop scene. In one alleged text from Lively to Baldoni, she refers to Reynolds and the friend as her “most trusted partners” before seemingly calling them her “dragons.”
“If you ever get around to watching Game of Thrones, you’ll appreciate that I’m Khaleesi,” Lively allegedly wrote to Baldoni, in part. “And like her, I happen to have a few dragons. For better or worse, but usually for better, because my dragons also protect those I fight for. So really, we all benefit from those gorgeous monsters of mine. 
you will too. I can promise you.”
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January 7, 2025: During an appearance on The Megyn Kelly Show, Baldoni”s lawyer suggests Reynolds mocked Baldoni through the Deadpool & Wolverine character Nicepool. Read more about that here.
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2024
December 31, 2024: Justin Baldoni sues the New York Times for “libel, false light invasion of privacy, promissory fraud, and breach of implied-in-fact contract.” In a statement to People, Baldoni”s lawyer seems to describe Lively and Reynolds as “two powerful ‘untouchable’ Hollywood elites.”
