• Ryan Reynolds jokes about Taylor Swift potentially naming baby No. 4
• Fans believe Taylor Swift hinted at baby’s name in latest album
• Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively’s family has four children, with name of fourth child still unknown
Here is what happened:
Taylor Swift might’ve filled another blank space for Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively: The name of their fourth child. Four years after the Grammy winner subtly announced the moniker of the couple’s third daughter, Betty Reynolds, on folklore, fans believe she did it again in the lyrics of her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department. However, neither Taylor nor Blake and Ryan have yet to confirm the theories. In fact, the IF actor shook off the speculation during a recent interview.
“We always wait for Taylor to tell us what the child’s name will be,” he joked with Today’s Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie. “And, we’ll say this: we’re still waiting, so Taylor, let’s maybe start. You know, she’s a prolific writer. I mean, what are we doing here? And lazy is not a word I’d attach to Taylor.” Ryan, 47, and Blake, 36, are parents to kids James Reynolds, 9, Inez Reynolds, 7, and Betty, 4— all three of whom get shoutouts on Taylor’s 2020 song “betty”—as well as their fourth baby, whose sex has also not been shared publicly.
Jokes aside, the Reynolds-Lively family has experienced a number of recent milestones together. As Ryan revealed in a TIME tribute to Michael J. Fox published April 17, the actor inspired a bonding moment between him and eldest daughter James. “Last year I watched Back to the Future with my 8-year-old daughter,” he noted. “It’s become her favorite film.” Keep reading for more quotes from Blake and Ryan about their parenthood journey. In tradition with his dark sense of humor, Reynolds shared this little parenting joke with his Twitter followers in 2016: “Being a father is the single greatest feeling on earth. Not including those wonderful years I spent without a child, of course.”
