Blake Lively Opens Up About Life At Home With Ryan Reynolds In Marie Claire

Blake Lively is set to take on a shark in her upcoming movie “The Shallows”, but speaking with Marie Claire, the 28-year-old actress is getting candid about life at home.

“All my eggs are in one basket, and that’s my family. That’s where my heart is. That’s where my everything is,” the actress says of her husband Ryan Reynolds, daughter James, 15 months. “My family: That’s the thing that I feel most protective of and the thing that I feel is the most exposed when I feel exploited,” she says. With a new baby on the way, Lively is all about focusing on her growing family and her relationship with Reynolds.

“I knew he would always be my best friend for my whole life,” she says of the “Deadpool” star. “That was the biggest thing to me. I’d never known anything like the friendship that I had with him. I could like him as much as I loved him.”

Lively says she wants to mimic her husband’s upbringing in Vancouver for their own family. “Ryan had a nice, normal upbringing, and we want our kids to have the same normal life that we had,” she explains. “We don’t ever want to rob them of what we had, because we’d feel really selfish.”

For now, that means keeping daughter James out of the spotlight as much as possible. “I’d rather not have to deal with it at all,” she says of the paparazzi. “But we knew the lifestyle we were getting into, and while it’s hard…it’s another thing when it’s our child. She didn’t have the opportunity to make a decision about what she wants.”

The actress will be in the spotlight this year with roles in three big movies hitting screens in 2016. First up is “The Shallows” which Lively calls “a survival movie [and] an isolation story.” The movie isn’t just here to scare viewers out of the water this summer, it’s also a commentary on the environment.

“Because of climate change and global warming, what was once in the deep is now in the shallows,” she says, explaining why a great white shark is 300 metres from shore in the movie. “The danger with a film like this is that it taps into primal fear, but it can also unfairly villainize this amazing creature intrinsic to our well-being. They’re one of the most over-fished creatures in the ocean, and it’s important we protect them.”

Lively will also appear on screen in Woody Allen’s late July release, “Cafe Society” opposite Kristen Stewart and she’ll star as a blind woman in the thriller “All I See Is You” later this year.

The July issue of Marie Claire hits newsstands on June 21.