Blake Lively Compares Parenting to Taking Cocaine in Case You Wondered if Moms Are OK
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When I was pregnant with my firstborn, my OB/GYN gave me a warning. She said that once I became a mom, the highs in life will be higher than before — and the lows will be lower. I’ve found that it’s true. There are so many emotions and feelings that come with parenthood that it’s impossible to describe. Exhilarating joy followed by the most debilitating tiredness you’ve ever felt. Not to mention, parts of your very soul that are living outside your body in your kids. It can be overwhelming! With all those emotions, mom-of-four Blake Lively described it as what she assumed taking cocaine would feel like — and it makes a weird kind of sense.
All The Emotions
In a new interview on the Further Ado Substack, Lively opened up about all the intense feelings of motherhood with host Amber Tamblyn, who was her costar in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
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“I know I’m a skin-covered nervous system because that’s the anatomy of a human, but my nervous system feels electrified since having a child,” the Gossip Girl alum said on the Feb. 22 show, per E! News. “I have experienced every single emotion in the human spectrum of emotions and then some. The greatest highs, the greatest fears, the lows, all of it. So what I feel in my body is everything.”
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Lively, who shares daughters James, 9, Inez, 7, Betty, 4, and a baby born in Feb. 2023 with husband Ryan Reynolds, continued, “It makes it so much easier because I feel so authentically now versus imagining and that translates into all of my creativity. When I get scared of something, it’s so much bigger and faster and brighter. When I feel love, it’s brighter.”
“Everything is just probably what cocaine feels like,” she added.
While I can’t attest to how cocaine feels, I do know about the emotions of parenthood, and I completely agree with Lively’s assessment. Motherhood is electrifying in a good way and a bad way. I’ve never been so scared or so happy — and you just have to take the lows with the highs (figuratively speaking, of course — we are NOT condoning cocaine).
Family First
And as a mom, Lively is putting her family first. In the interview with Tamblyn, she shared how she and Reynolds adjust their work schedule to be present parents. “When Ryan and I got together, we made a rule not to work at the same time, so we could always prioritize our personal life,” she said, per E! News. “That takes working really hard when we’re not — just like financial planning and sustaining that — it takes balance.”
Confidence
In the past, the A Simple Favor star has shared how motherhood made her feel more confident. “I think having children for me made me feel so much more in my skin. I never felt more myself or at ease in my own body or more confident,” she told Forbes in May 2022.
“Not to say that there aren’t a bevy of insecurities coming at me a million times a day, but I just feel incredibly settled,” she added.
Before you go, check out Blake Lively’s best quotes about being a mom.
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