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Blake Lively may be a mom of four — but it’s clear she never graduated from being a middle-school mean girl

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23.01.2026

Blake Lively is 38 and a mother of four — but it’s clear that she never graduated from being a middle-school mean girl who thinks she is untouchable. 

She’s imperious. She’s cruel. Like a catty tween, she won’t hesitate to rally all of her cool-kid friends against those who she believes have crossed her.

But, unlike with many of the narcissists in Hollywood, Lively’s acting cannot redeem her character (see: her performance in “The Town”).

Her worst sin? Making me defend an avowed male feminist.

But that’s how bad her smear campaign against Justin Baldoni has been. And now we have a trove of newly released text messages, allegedly between Lively and her onetime best friend Taylor Swift, that seemingly reveal the depths of the actress’s efforts to ruin the director and co-star of “It Ends With Us.”

Unsealed court papers detailed the pair’s plot to essentially bully Baldoni, whom Lively called the “doofus director of my movie.”

In April 2023, Lively lobbied Swift to influence Baldoni to use her script revisions.

“I’ll do anything for you,” Swift........

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