Blake Lively focusing on “calm time with her family” the 38th anniversary (exclusive sources)

Blake Lively focuses on the family as she marks her birthday.

The actress, who was 38 years old on Monday, August 25, “had a big summer,” said a source to people. “It is especially time with family.”

The actress shares girls James, Inez and Betty plus her son Olin with her husband Ryan Reynolds. Before school resumed, “they also traveled with the family,” added the source.

Lively’s birthday comes after Lionsgate announced on August 21 that it will produce and play in an action rom-com The survival list. This is the first new Lively project has landed since she continued it It ends with us Director and Costar Justin Baldoni in December 2024. She accused her of sexual harassment and reprisals, which he denied. Their trial is scheduled for March 2026.

After promoting its brand of hair care earlier this summer, the source continues, alive “awaited a calm moment with his family”. Spend time with Reynolds, 48, and their four children “relaxes. She focuses on this.”

Another initiate tells people that Lively’s plans for her birthday would include a celebration with the family. “She is grateful for Ryan’s support in the past year,” added the initiate.

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Lively spoke of her legal battle in June, writing on her Instagram stories, “like so many others, I felt the pain of a retaliatory trial, including the manufactured shame that tries to break us.”

At that time, Lively wrote that she felt “more resolved than ever to continue to defend the right of each woman to have a voice to protect herself, including their security, their integrity, their dignity and their history”.

“With love and gratitude for the many who stood me next to me, many of you, I know. Many of you do not do it. But I will never stop appreciating or defending for you,” she added.

Meanwhile, Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, described Baldoni as “a person who wants to be justified, and that’s all he cares” during an interview on June 10 with Tmz.

“He wants the truth to come out and he wants to do it in the appropriate way,” said Freedman. “He is waiting for his day in court, where he can speak to tell the truth.”

When Lively was a guest Late at night with Seth Meyers In May, the Another simple favor The actress admitted that she could not say much about her legal battle but approached her “intense year”, saying that it was “full of the highest and lowest in my life”.