This ought to brighten your Tuesday!
Blake Lively, in all her glowing glory, is on the cover of the May issue of Allure!
And just in time for the Age Of Adaline‘s promo tour!
The new mom posed for famed fashion photog Mario Testino dressed in a simple white Jil Sander cotton shirt, but if you’re like us, you’ll be staring at her massive engagement ring.
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Dayum. Her stylist’s job was cut out for her!
And considering Blake was running on practically no sleep, taking a picture this flawless is quite the feat!
Inside the mag, she even divulged:
“Most of the things I do are all-consuming, but somehow I find a way to do it all. It’s not having it all; it’s about doing it all, but it’s dangerous to dilute that to a catchphrase.
Having it all could be having a happy, healthy family, and you could be a mom who stays at home, and that is the most admirable thing you could do. Or it could be having a profession that you really believe in, and not having a family, and doing what fulfills you.”
Yas! Preach!
Blake seems to be in control — and we love just how happy she is spending time with her family! Read on for more HIGHlights from her revealing interview!
On welcoming her first child: “I feel like I’ve figured out the most important thing to me. And everything supports that.”
On aging: “People are obsessed with beauty and youth and with looking and feeling young forever. But look at a woman who is granted that: She’s trapped, because it’s tragic to be young forever. And also, having a child makes you realize that we pass on for a reason. You think, ‘I have to go, because it makes room for you.'”
On how breastfeeding baby James is like a “full-time job”: “I’m, like, driving down the road, pumping.”
On announcing her pregnancy with a shoot on her lifestyle blog: “My brother took that photo├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥he’s an amazing photographer. That moment was really neat, and I was scared to take that picture because I’m very private. I had a feeling that we weren’t going to get away with our privacy for a while…That was my way of owning that moment. I can’t be someone like Beyonc├â┬⌐ and be like├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥ [her 2011 VMAs announcement]. But it was important for us. It was a struggle, because we want to keep our privacy, but we also don’t want our lives to be exploited by other people. So we did it simply; it was a quiet way, an elegant way.”
On Preserve: “It taps into so many of my own passions, but it also is a business that I can control. If I can be successful at this, I have security for my family and my babies… I’m in a profession, acting, where it’s really for-hire├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥I offer a service that people hire out. I love it, but it’s not something I can control.”
On the phrase “doing it all”: “I don’t believe I have to choose├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥who says so? Who says we can’t do anything that we set our mind to? You may not be the best at it. You may not be the most successful. But you can try your best. That’s what having it all means to me├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥not letting anyone tell me no but myself.”
On her time as Gossip Girl‘s Serena Van Der Woodsen: “People loved it, but it always felt a little personally compromising├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥you want to be putting a better message out there. The lines become blurred. It doesn’t help when everybody is dating who they’re dating on the show, and you’re also saying to the costume designer, ‘Hey, can I take that home?’…It’s a weird thing when people feel like they know you really well, and they don’t. I would not be proud to be the person who gave someone the cocaine that made them overdose and then shot someone and slept with someone else’s boyfriend.”
Do whatever makes you happy, Blake!
It clearly seems to be working!
P.S. Ch-ch-check out a glimpse of her radiant spread in the gallery (above)!
[Image via Mario Testino/Allure.]