Newsflash: celebs are awful to interviewers

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Anonymous wrote:Any pregnant woman, who has announced her pregnancy, who is nevertheless offended at being congratulated on her pregnancy (whether or not the word “bump” is used is irrelevant) is not mature enough to be a mother. Hopefully for her children’s sake Lively has grown the hell up since this interview.

As to her opinions on sexism, fashion, rude behavior, and Woody Allen films, I think the obvious explanation is that Blake Lively is simply unintelligent.

Bump is irrelevant… because you said so? Nope. Doesn’t work that way. I’m more worried about the interviewer who seems like her life has been derailed over one bad interview this long ago than Blake. Has she gotten help to get over this tragedy?

You can’t have it both ways. If Blake is so taken aback when someone mentions her bump that she gives such an outrageously mean and rude interview that her fan base is upset and feels misled about her, she needs to rethink having a career in the spotlight.

Which judging from her reputation lately is going to be forced on her.

Is her fanbase really upset? Or just the usual people who salivate at the downfall of people they get tired of? Everyone likes a good comeuppance, but i doubt it’s coming from her fans.

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Anonymous wrote:Any pregnant woman, who has announced her pregnancy, who is nevertheless offended at being congratulated on her pregnancy (whether or not the word “bump” is used is irrelevant) is not mature enough to be a mother. Hopefully for her children’s sake Lively has grown the hell up since this interview.

As to her opinions on sexism, fashion, rude behavior, and Woody Allen films, I think the obvious explanation is that Blake Lively is simply unintelligent.

She's the most dangerous type of unintelligent, because she doesn't know it. The smart move dumb people make is when they acknowledge their lack of smarts and surround themselves with smart people to help them. Blake probably thinks she's great. Hopefully her kids have a smart nanny or two.

To be fair you've described a significant portion ( I'm trying my best to not say half of this country's population) with your succinct assessment of the danger unintelligent people like her represent for our society-at-large. Look around you, fewer and fewer are willing to admit that they know little to nothing at all about a specific issue,but they sure as hell don't mind speaking confidently about it .

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Smart nanny is not going to work for these idiots who probably pay poorly.

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Anonymous wrote:Calling it a "little bump" was mildly annoying and it's fine to bristle at it. But that does not justify Lively's behavior in the interview -- she went nuclear on what was essentially a faux pas committed by someone conducting an interview in her non-native language. Lively's response was way over the top.

The interviewer was there specifically to discuss the fashion in a period film. So Lively getting upset that the first question was about the film's costuming makes NO SENSE. It was not a general interest interview about the project. It was a fashion reporter who was there to discuss the fashion in the movie. When Lively says "would you ask the male actors about this" and the reporter says "yes" -- that was an honest and true answer. She's there to discuss the fashion in a movie with fantastic fashion (and which was otherwise not a particularly interesting or memorable movie). Lively was totally out of line on that.

Also the idea of an actress trying to take a feminist stand against another woman while promoting a Woody Allen movie is ironic at best and offensive at worst. Would Lively have preferred that the interviewer ignore her pregnancy but ask her how she can work with someone who has such a sketchy history in his treatment of women both professionally and in his personal life? Fixating on the "little bump" comment while ignoring that is crazy to me. I don't get being on Lively's side here even if you are very sensitive to how women's bodies are discussed. Allen is a freaking pedophile.

Yea I think it’s easy for the whole woody Allen thing to get lost in the mix of all this. Several actors have publicly apologized for working with him in the last few years. She never has. For this interview to be from that movie makes the debate over fashion and bump talk even more ridiculous.

Doesn't Blake like fashion? Her instagram is full of photos of her wearing designer fashion and she has posted "It's never lost on me that I get to play dress-up for a living." I would think a fashion question would be right up her alley.

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Anonymous wrote:Smart nanny is not going to work for these idiots who probably pay poorly.

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Anonymous wrote:Any pregnant woman, who has announced her pregnancy, who is nevertheless offended at being congratulated on her pregnancy (whether or not the word “bump” is used is irrelevant) is not mature enough to be a mother. Hopefully for her children’s sake Lively has grown the hell up since this interview.

As to her opinions on sexism, fashion, rude behavior, and Woody Allen films, I think the obvious explanation is that Blake Lively is simply unintelligent.

Bump is irrelevant… because you said so? Nope. Doesn’t work that way. I’m more worried about the interviewer who seems like her life has been derailed over one bad interview this long ago than Blake. Has she gotten help to get over this tragedy?

You can’t have it both ways. If Blake is so taken aback when someone mentions her bump that she gives such an outrageously mean and rude interview that her fan base is upset and feels misled about her, she needs to rethink having a career in the spotlight.

Which judging from her reputation lately is going to be forced on her.

Is her fanbase really upset? Or just the usual people who salivate at the downfall of people they get tired of? Everyone likes a good comeuppance, but i doubt it’s coming from her fans.

Does Blake Lively have a fan base? Preserve failed and her new drink and hair care lines probably will too. I find Ryan quite charming but Blake is forgettable.

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Anonymous wrote:I just saw an interview Blake did where she said she gets into a character for all her roles by thinking about her characters style. So literally she preps for roles thinking about fashion. But don’t talk to her about fashion I guess cause it’s sexist or something.

Make it make sense.

It's just exactly the sort of thing a narcissist would do, right? Make other people feel crazy by putting them in this impossible situation of demanding they pay attention to, and remark on, every thing you do - while at the same time, being totally volatile and unpredictable about what will set you off.

Imagine pregnant women with raging hormones being unpredictable. Who knew?

Do you really want to go in that direction? That's the line of argument used to say that women shouldn't hold positions of power.

And even if that is the reason, Blake Lively could have apologized - which (to the best of my knowledge) she has not done.

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I am a HS teacher who taught from 3 months pregnant until a week before I gave birth. You don’t think the students I taught said nasty things ever? I held my tongue and controlled my ‘raging hormones’. Because I’m an effing adult.

Right but we give leeway to people all the time. Parent died? Sick kid? Divorce? Cancer? Illness? Surgery? We do it alll the time. Women don’t need to pretend to be superhuman while pregnant lest they be considered weak and ineffectual or unqualified because people can’t handle it.

Of course. Celebs deserve some grace. I think people are just fed up with blake and Ryan selling us one million different things at one million different times. There are some interesting marketing and business analysts takes on why this is getting such backlash and it has to do with really needing to be authentic with your brand. This kind of interview where you look catty and petty doesn’t help the brand. And they’ve been shoving the brand down our throats for a long time. Another poster put it perfectly when she said their side hustles have clearly overtaken their acting projects and it’s wearing thin especially in fans who were really rooting for this movie adaptation of a beloved book.

I’m sure in the long run this couple and their $350 mill will be just fine.

NP sounds like a personal wish of yours. Also, learn the difference between net worth and cash. A $350M net worth DOES NOT mean you have $350M in the bank. I'm not saying they're poor but if the aggressive and, quite frankly, desperate manner with which she was promoting her tacky wares is indicative of anything is that, they're not rich enough to stop working.

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In what world are these people not rich enough to stop working!?!? That’s insane. They are likely addicted to money and fame but they don’t need more of either.

Again, you need to be careful when discussing money matters. It's better to err on the side of doubts as opposed to speaking in matter-of-factly terms like you as if you were their personal money manager. The clues are there for anyone smart enough to see.

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Anonymous wrote:Any pregnant woman, who has announced her pregnancy, who is nevertheless offended at being congratulated on her pregnancy (whether or not the word “bump” is used is irrelevant) is not mature enough to be a mother. Hopefully for her children’s sake Lively has grown the hell up since this interview.

As to her opinions on sexism, fashion, rude behavior, and Woody Allen films, I think the obvious explanation is that Blake Lively is simply unintelligent.

I do think Lively is pretty dumb. This is often a problem with celebrities-- many got rich and famous because of looks, charisma, or connections. A lot if them are dumb as bricks. But they are also powerful because of their fame and money. It's a bad combo.

It would be fine if she was simply unintelligent yet well-behaved. But she's an unintelligent mean girl of epic proportions. All this constant invention of "victimhood" reasons to attack people and drag others into the bullying is just exhausting.

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She recently revealed in an interview that she made a “big boob cake” for her son‘s first birthday. Her quote was something like “what do babies like at that age? T1ts.”

Funny, but doesn’t strike me as a person who’s that uncomfortable over a “little bump” mark.

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Anonymous wrote:She recently revealed in an interview that she made a “big boob cake” for her son‘s first birthday. Her quote was something like “what do babies like at that age? T1ts.”

Funny, but doesn’t strike me as a person who’s that uncomfortable over a “little bump” mark.

Tacky.

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Anonymous wrote:She recently revealed in an interview that she made a “big boob cake” for her son‘s first birthday. Her quote was something like “what do babies like at that age? T1ts.”

Funny, but doesn’t strike me as a person who’s that uncomfortable over a “little bump” mark.

It’s ok to talk about your own body but not ok for others. Why is that hard? You can make fun of your love handles but do you want someone you’ve just met to talk about them? Or your tits? Or your ass?

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I have to make this observation. I said before in this thread that Taylor made a point of promoting Deadpool. On her stories, she is also promoting blink twice the new movie directed by Zoe Kravitz, and starring Channing Tatum and I know she’s friends with both of them.

Is it weird that blake is supposedly one of her good friends and she’s not said anything about her movie? Do you think that she saw the early bad reactions to how the publicity was happening with the rift between Justin and Blake and making light of the subject and just decided to stay out of it?

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Anonymous wrote:She recently revealed in an interview that she made a “big boob cake” for her son‘s first birthday. Her quote was something like “what do babies like at that age? T1ts.”

Funny, but doesn’t strike me as a person who’s that uncomfortable over a “little bump” mark.

It’s ok to talk about your own body but not ok for others. Why is that hard? You can make fun of your love handles but do you want someone you’ve just met to talk about them? Or your tits? Or your ass?

How is complimenting a nonpregnant woman on her little bump at anyway keeping it about your body?

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Anonymous wrote:She recently revealed in an interview that she made a “big boob cake” for her son‘s first birthday. Her quote was something like “what do babies like at that age? T1ts.”

Funny, but doesn’t strike me as a person who’s that uncomfortable over a “little bump” mark.

It’s ok to talk about your own body but not ok for others. Why is that hard? You can make fun of your love handles but do you want someone you’ve just met to talk about them? Or your tits? Or your ass?

Based on this anecdote she is clearly the type of mother who will not have boundaries when discussing her own children, though.

Even though it’s absolutely nothing to be embarrassed about (just as having a “baby bump” when growing a baby is nothing to be embarrassed about) can you imagine how her son will feel when he is older and reads about/sees pictures of his boob cake and how much he loved (his mother’s) tits? I’m sure he will be completely mortified, but she’ll just think it’s hilarious.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve worked these junkets and in defense of the celebrities, they are mindless assembly lines and the reporters do not always ask the best questions. Sure she was rude but with the the “bump” reporter gave to make if about herself? Was Blake supposed to know she was infertile? Ridiculous.

Of course not. Blake was supposed to play the game. She’s being paid lot of money to do that. She didn’t. This interview didn’t get out earlier because the movie totally flopped.

You are an actor. Act polite. If you want to play feminist than you need to wait for a bad question. She didn’t get one she got appropriate questions and she mishandled them.

I just saw a clip of Benedict Cumberbun or whatever his name is and Kiera knightley do an interview and the male interviewer stated by telling Kiera (who looked gorgeous) that she “looked worn out.”

Benedict was clearly shocked and said did you just tell this beautiful woman she looks worn out? and Kiera goes “yea?!! F**k you!”

Kiera was rude but it’s being celebrated because she stood up for herself and clapped back at a rude question. She acted appropriately.

Blake did not.

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Blake comes off as the pretty, popular woman and her sycophant friend ganging up on another woman for sport. The interviewer made a *minor* faux pas by saying "bump" instead of just "congrats on the baby." The interviewer is also a non-native English speaker and a woman, so deserves the benefit of the doubt regarding what is, at worst, a slightly more invasive comment.

If the reporter is truly infertile as she claims; she should know commenting on a pregnant woman’s body is inappropriate. Full stop. And to harbor resentment 8 years later? Yeah, no.

Sure, it's not appropriate. The interviewer is Finnish and was likely repeating a phrase she'd heard other English-speakers use and did not know it could be considered inappropriate.

The resentment she harbors is for Lively treating her like garbage for the rest of the interview. The interviewer made a faux pas. Lively went for blood. I totally get why the experience stick with her.

I am a native English speaker and took the interviewer as meaning nothing more than "congrats on your pregnancy, which you publicly announced." The response was frankly shocking. And so instant, too.

You’re leaving out the key detail of “hey you look a little fat with that baby bump”. Nobody likes that pointed out especially by a stranger. Celebs are often obsessed with their bodies and their careers depend on them. Blake might have been feeling a certain way about that. The interviewer was tactless and clueless.

Fat?!

Have you ever been pregnant? Not everyone is thrilled with all the changes to their body. It’s not a constant awesome glow. Get real.

Oh for gd's sake. How many times has she been pregnant now? It's not exactly a secret that your tummy grows while you're making a baby. She should be used to it by now - and also be normal enough to know this person was just congratulating her about a pregnancy she'd been public about, not saying "you're a fat cow you fat cow."

I wasn't in the room. Maybe before the camera started rolling the interview did say "you're a fat cow" but I doubt it.

It is literally Blake Lively's job to get on camera and sell the movie she's in. Not her job to get on camera and turn into a weirdo who's calling an interviewer fat because the interviewer congratulated her on a pregnancy. This was insane.

It is literally the journalist’s job to conduct herself in a professional manner. How do you think it’s going to go when you comment on a pregnant actress’s body?

What is insane is clout chasing for the interview 8 years later.

Jesus, she did not "comment on a pregnant actress's body" - she congratulated her on her pregnancy!

I don't know how people with your mindset get through a normal day. Grow up.

Commenting on someone’s pregnant body and growing stomach is actually the definition of commenting on someone’s body. Are you slow?

Np. You're an overly sensitive snowflake and should grow up. The interviewer was attempting to congratulate Blake. The way Blake acted was complete mean, spoiled brat.

In what world is commenting on someone’s changing body appropriate?

NP changing body? she had publicly announced her pregancy,stop grasping at straws to justify unaceeptable behavior.

dp So? That does not invite anyone to talk about someone's body. When I was pregnant my neighbor kept saying "YOU ARE SOOO BIG!"

Do you really think "congratulations on your little bump" was a comment on the actual size of Blake Lively's belly?

What else is it about?

Blake was seven months pregnant at the time. The interviewer would have said “congrats on your large belly” if she was actually commenting on the size.

Big or small, same thing. Shut your mouth about pregnant women’s bodies. That’s the moral of the story. A big belly might mean you’re eating too much or ready to pop or whatever nonsense people put in their heads. A little bump maybe means it’s not going well, are you ok? Shouldn’t the baby be bigger? Had that happen to me once. People whispered behind my back that they were worried I wasn’t showing enough.

Your personal experience really has nothing to do with this. Shut your own mouth.