--- title: Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds Welcome Second Child description: Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds welcomed their second baby; they had their first child, James, less than two years ago. canonical: https://time.com/4515044/blake-lively-ryan-reynolds-baby-2/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-30T18:12:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:13.541Z og:title: Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds Welcome Their Second Child og:description: Major congrats are in order for the couple og:url: https://time.com/4515044/blake-lively-ryan-reynolds-baby-2/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7f795ea535d237b4/6988a838428a9e6c7fcd473e/blake-lively-ryan-reynolds-baby-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Trudeau State Dinner Guest Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds Welcome Their Second Child twitter:description: Major congrats are in order for the couple twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7f795ea535d237b4/6988a838428a9e6c7fcd473e/blake-lively-ryan-reynolds-baby-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds Welcome Their Second Child > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Ron Sachs-Pool/Getty Images) Pool—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 30, 2016 6:12 PM UTC [Blake Lively](http://motto.time.com/4377931/blake-lively-addresses-critics/?xid=time%5Fsocialflow%5Ftwitter) and Ryan Reynolds welcomed their second child today and thus continue to fulfill their duties as aesthetically pleasing individuals to produce more good looking progeny that will populate the earth. According to [_People_](http://celebritybabies.people.com/2016/09/30/blake-lively-and-ryan-reynolds-welcome-second-child/), Lively gave birth to their second baby in New York; [the couple, who married in 2012](http://time.com/4370228/blake-lively-ryan-reynolds/), are also parents to a 22-month-old daughter named James. As of right now, the sex and name of the baby is still unknown, but take comfort in knowing that even if Reynolds and Lively choose to give this child an unwieldy handle, the little one is still heir to the genetic jackpot. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4515044/blake-lively-ryan-reynolds-baby-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4515044/blake-lively-ryan-reynolds-baby-2/"},"headline":"Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds Welcome Their Second Child","datePublished":"2016-09-30T18:12:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:13.541Z","description":"Major congrats are in order for the couple","url":"https://time.com/4515044/blake-lively-ryan-reynolds-baby-2/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","celebrity","Blake Lively"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7f795ea535d237b4/6988a838428a9e6c7fcd473e/blake-lively-ryan-reynolds-baby-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7f795ea535d237b4/6988a838428a9e6c7fcd473e/blake-lively-ryan-reynolds-baby-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Trudeau State Dinner Guest Arrivals","caption":"Trudeau State Dinner Guest Arrivals","creditText":"Pool—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4515044/blake-lively-ryan-reynolds-baby-2/","name":"Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds Welcome Their Second Child"}}]}] ```