Why Didn’t Blake Lively Attend the Met Gala 2024?

Elizabeth Logan
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The Met Gala was full of gorgeous looks and inventive designs. One thing that was missed? Blake Lively. The lack of a Blake Lively Met Gala 2024 appearance is sad, to be sure, but we’re sure she has a great reason for sitting this one out! She is, after all, a mom of four and the star of two upcoming movies—maybe she just wanted to give the other gals a chance to shine. Who can blame her?

It’s actually been two years since Blake Lively attended the Met Gala. She wowed at the 2022 Met Gala in a Versace gown that, like the Statue of Liberty, transformed from copper to green. But she, quite understandably, skipped the 2023 festivities because she was recently postpartum.

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds at the 2022 Met Gala

Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds at the 2022 Met Gala
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Thankfully, we have plenty of Blake Lively looks from Met Galas past. And there ain’t no Met Gala look like a Blake Lively Met Gala look because a Blake Lively Met Gala look matches the carpet! Lively is one of a handful of A-listers who are Met Gala faves, like Sarah Jessica Parker, Rihanna, Beyoncé, and 2024 cochair Zendaya. Unlike those fashionistas, though, Lively, famously, doesn’t work with a stylist, preferring to choose her own pieces and communicate directly with designers. And only Blake is known for not only getting the theme right, but matching the carpet itself. It’s become a thing, and a thing Lively is very much aware of.

For the Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology theme in 2016

"Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology" Costume Institute Gala - Arrivals

For the Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology theme in 2016
Karwai Tang
For the Charles James: Beyond Fashion theme in 2014
For the Charles James: Beyond Fashion theme in 2014
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For the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination theme in 2018

Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala

For the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination theme in 2018
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For the Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art of the In-Between” theme in 2017

"Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between" Costume Institute Gala

For the Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art of the In-Between” theme in 2017
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Of course, her husband Ryan Reynolds wasn’t there either. He’d never go stag, and he’s pretty busy too. His next film, Deadpool & Wolverine, will probably be one of the biggest blockbusters of the summer, but were just as excited about Lively’s next films. Not only is she starring in the hotly anticipated adaptation of Colleen Hoover's best-selling It Ends With Us, she and Anna Kendrick are reuniting for a sequel to the cult classic A Simple Favor. ItZ’s almost as good as a Blake Lively Met Gala 2024 look. Almost.

To see all the looks from the 2024 Met Gala red carpet, and for more of Glamour’s live show coverage, click here.

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