--- title: Blake Lively Addresses Her Pregnancy: 'This Is Not Brownies' description: The Shallows star Blake Lively has officially confirmed her second pregnancy with husband Ryan Reynolds canonical: https://time.com/4380137/blake-lively-pregnancy-ryan-reynolds/ author: Megan Lasher article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-23T18:31:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:02:48.063Z og:title: Blake Lively Addresses Her Pregnancy: 'This Is Not Brownies' og:description: And she says her 18-month-old daughter is ready to babysit og:url: https://time.com/4380137/blake-lively-pregnancy-ryan-reynolds/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt56cf54f7a1f1bc9d/6988992a2dce016d8e9e996a/blake-lively-pregnant-ryan-reynolds.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: "The Shallows" World Premiere og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Blake Lively Addresses Her Pregnancy: 'This Is Not Brownies' twitter:description: And she says her 18-month-old daughter is ready to babysit twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt56cf54f7a1f1bc9d/6988992a2dce016d8e9e996a/blake-lively-pregnant-ryan-reynolds.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Blake Lively Addresses Her Pregnancy: 'This Is Not Brownies' > Sponsored content. 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James Devaney—WireImage/Getty by [Megan Lasher](https://time.com/author/megan-lasher/) ## Megan Lasher Jun 23, 2016 6:31 PM UTC _The Shallows_ star Blake Lively has made quite a few [red carpet appearances](http://motto.time.com/4377931/blake-lively-addresses-critics/?iid=sr-link2) sporting her baby bump, though up until recently, she [hadn’t explicitly discussed](http://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/news/a37296/blake-lively-second-pregnancy-seth-meyers/) her second pregnancy. But it didn’t take a Gossip Girl post to reveal the news: Lively did it herself on _Late Night with Seth Meyers._ “You have a baby at home, and you have a baby on the way, congratulations,” Meyers said. But Lively quickly quipped back: “What makes you say that?… You know you don’t ever say that to a woman.” She gave in, confirming that Meyers was right: “Yes, this is not brownies.” Lively, who earlier this week identified herself and husband Ryan Reynolds as [“breeders,”](http://motto.time.com/4376301/blake-lively-ryan-reynolds-breeders/?iid=sr-link1) also joked that she won’t be too overloaded with parenting both children. The couple’s 18-month-old daughter, James, could watch the new baby: “I feel like at a year-and-a-half, she’s equipped to be a babysitter. 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