Ryan Reynolds Says Raising 3 Girls Was ‘Just So Easy’ Compared to Baby Olin
Raising a boy is no joking matter for Ryan Reynolds. The Deadpool & Wolverine star is in the trenches with his first son Olin, 2, who he shares with wife Blake Lively, and he just admitted that the three daughters they had before baby Olin was born were “just so easy” compared to him.
In an appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers on Thursday, Reynolds revealed that his son is already more violent than his sisters. “We live in a very, like, there’s nothing violent in our home,” Reynolds told host Seth Meyers, per PEOPLE. “There’s nothing creepy. [But Olin] came out with three things on his mind. It was violence, breasts and engines.”
Oof! It’s funny when you describe it like that, but it’s sounds like he just loves his mama. After all, Lively herself baked her son a boob cake for his first birthday. “My birthday cakes always have a little bit of a sense of humor, for my baby I just did a giant set of t—,” she said on BBC Radio 2’s Zoe Ball and Friends last year. “Which I feel like will haunt him for life.”
“What do they want at one? He can’t declare what he wants. So, boobs!” she added.
It’s more than just the obsession with where his milk comes from for Reynolds, though. In the interview with Meyers, he went on to say that he wouldn’t have been able to handle three boys.
“I really don’t understand where this comes from,” Reynolds said. “If I had like three boys at first, I would never— There’s no way. I would give myself a punching vasectomy. Like, there’s no way I would allow that to happen.” As a mom of three boys, this take is both hilarious and also completely valid!
The IF star also said that his daughters James, 10, Inez, 9, and Betty, 6, were “just so easy” compared to Olin who’s “gotta break everything.”
“I’m the youngest of four boys and boy do I feel for my mom. You know like I really do. My dad meh. But my mom really,” he added.
Saying that it was “easy” to raise girls compared to a boy is really surprising considering how parenthood has not been a walk in the park for Reynolds, by his own account. He previously called parenting “absolute mayhem,” telling TODAY in 2021, “You’re just every day, clinging by the skin of your teeth.”
“So I was always afraid I would have boys,” he continued. “Now that I have girls, I realized I should not have been afraid. I should have wanted boys as well. They’re just as rough.”
Maybe it’s just the baby/toddler age that’s hard, regardless of the sex of your kids. We’ll just have to wait until they all get a little bit older and see if he changes his tune at all!
Before you go, check out Blake Lively’s best quotes about being a mom.