Blake Lively Brought Her Four Kids to an Interview & It Was ‘Utter Chaos’: ‘The Most Accurate Portrait of Me’

Summertime is the unofficial Bring Your Kids to Work Day — every day. When mom and dad have to go to the office — or promote their highly anticipated new films — well, the kids have to come along, too. That’s exactly what happened with Blake Lively, whose movie It Ends With Us premieres this week. She dragged her four children, who she shares with husband Ryan Reynolds, to a cover interview for Vogue (!!), and it’s just as chaotic as you would expect.

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The Gossip Girl alum, who is mom to daughters James, 9, Inez, 7, Betty, 4, and son Olin, 1, brought the kids to her interview at a terrace restaurant near the top of the Spanish Steps in Rome. She carried one child while pulling another by the hand, with another wandering around behind them. By the time they sat down, the kids were freely dancing and singing (as kids do). “Sorry about all the kids!” she happily shouted as she approached the reporter, who described the moment as “a scene of joy and silliness and utter chaos,” which Lively “seems to be delighting in.”

What a perfect picture of mom life. You don’t stop being a mom just because Vogue wants to interview you — and you also don’t turn down Vogue because the kids are out of school for the summer! I love how Lively is just totally go-with-the-flow about it though, simply embracing the silliness and wildness of her kids. She isn’t put-out or annoyed, she’s just reveling in it. And good for her!

“Sitting around with them doing chicken dances while I have a very serious conversation with you is probably the most accurate portrait of me possible,” she told Vogue.

Hugh Jackman, a close friend to Lively and Reynolds who starred in Deadpool & Wolverine with him and in this Vogue shoot with her, gushed about how normal their home life is. “They are megawatt stars,” he told Vogue . “These are like old-school megawatt stars…and of course I’ve spent many hours with them, like in pajamas just hanging out in their house with their nine hundred children and dogs and it is just as normal as can be, and Blake will be baking and cooking and saying, ‘Let’s make pizza,’ and then the next thing you turn around,” he says, describing her changing for an event, “and there she is, this incredible star. It’s…it’s astonishing to me.”

The A Simple Favor star was in Rome to film the sequel of the thrilling movie, but she still has time to think about her kids’ upcoming Halloween costumes. “I got cloaks on Etsy and went to the Garment District, got all the trims. Look, I did all this, the sweetheart shape, the details on the sleeve…” she tells Vogue. You can just hear her enthusiasm for making these unique costumes for the kiddos. That part of your brain and your life doesn’t turn off just because you are in the middle of promoting one movie and filming another.

Colleen Hoover, who worked with Lively on the adaption of her book It Ends With Us , noted how dedicated she is to her children. “She could be on a phone call with, it doesn’t matter, the freaking Pope,” she told Vogue , “and if her kid walks into the room, she’s gonna give one hundred percent of her attention to her children. As a mom, I just really fell in love with that part of her.”

A Simple Favor 2 director Paul Feig confirmed, “She’s the best, one of the best moms I’ve ever seen.” He added, “When she’s working and when she’s in it, a rock-solid pro — but it’s so funny because then there she is, off running to get gelato for the kids.”

She seems to balance everything well, and it’s honestly inspiring. However, she’s still human and struggles with the work-life balance like everyone else. “Both of us really love our personal lives a lot,” the Blake Brown founder told Entertainment Tonight in an interview with her It Ends With Us co-star Jenny Slate. “And we love our job, and we love our work, and we take it very, very seriously, and we work very, very, very hard, and we completely immerse ourselves in our work,” Lively explained. “But who we are is defined by our personal life so much more than our work. We can be both of those things at once.”

She confessed, “When you’re working sometimes you feel guilty for, you know, not being in your personal life in those hours you’re at work,” Lively said. “And then when you’re at work, you feel guilty by being distracted by wishing that you were at your personal life. Two things can be true: we can love our work and our work can be very important to us and we can be all in on our work, and we can also love our personal life and it can be important to us and we can be all in [there].”

Before you go, check out Blake Lively’s best quotes about being a mom .