Even the most casual reader should recognize as a regular presence in our pages, dating all the way back to , when she first graced the cover during the early days of a little show called . “I love how classic and old time-y the look was,” she said in her Life In Looks video. “It was smart, Anna putting a 21-year-old girl on a CW teen soap on the cover of to make this shoot more timeless.
” Now, over 14 years and three covers later, Lively’s life looks tremendously different than it did at 21. By , Lively traded in the post-recession Upper East Side for her beachy SoCal roots. That second cover—written by Hamish Bowles in anticipation of her role in —sat on the precipice of one of her biggest moments yet: meeting her costar-turned-husband, Ryan Reynolds.
By the time she landed her in 2014—a Western tableau shot in Jackson Hole, Wyoming—Lively was expanding beyond acting into the entrepreneurial space with a -esque lifestyle website called , which she helmed for a year. These days, she splits her efforts between her new haircare line, , her nonalcoholic mixers, Betty Buzz, and canned cocktails, Betty Booze. Of course, no Blake Lively retrospective would be complete without a mention of her Met Gala style.
In 2016, the actor debuted her second pregnancy—her daughter, Inez—on the Met steps wearing a pale pink strapless Burberry dress embellished with red flowers. The resulting photo landed in the pages of ’s June 2016 issue. Today, more than ten years since her last cover, Lively has returned in a -inspired romp through Monte Carlo.
Directed by Baz Luhrmann, this glamorous shoot sees her taking on the role of a cat burglar, with Hugh Jackman as the detective hot on her tail. With four covers under her belt—from the frothy La Jolla coast to the moneyed Monte Carlo; from to —Blake Lively proves she’s got the range..
