Blake Lively Interviews Where She Uses Transphobic Slur Resurface
making headlines and receiving backlash this month over reported tension among the cast and crew of her new film It Ends With Us.Her name once again went viral when X, formerly Twitter, user Josh Charles shared a screenshot on Sunday of an interview with Lively where she used a transgender slur.The quote was from a 2012 interview with Elle magazine where she spoke about what gender she would like her future children to be."I hope to have a few girls one day.
If not girls, they'd better be t*******. Because I have some amazing shoes and bags and stories that need to be appreciated," she said.Charles shared an excerpt of the interview and captioned the post, which has been viewed three million times: "Sometimes ill be quietly going about my day and then ill remember the time blake lively said this to a journalist."sometimes ill be quietly going about my day and then ill remember the time blake lively said this to a journalist pic.twitter.com/SIHZcrlzuiNewsweek contacted Lively's representatives by email for comment.In the replies of Charles' post, people shared other times Lively allegedly used that slur and other ones in reference to transgender people.Lively said in a 2009 interview with Allure magazine: I feel like a t***** a lot of the time.
I don't know, I'm ... large? They put me in six-inch heels and I tower over every man. I've got this long hair and lots of clothes and makeup on ...
I just feel really big a lot of the time, and I'm surrounded by a lot of tiny people. I feel like a man sometimes."Another person shared a snippet of an interview Lively did with her Gossip Girl co-star Leighton Meester with Nylon TV, where they were asked if there was any truth to the rumors that the pair did not get along."If you read the gossip magazines, everybody is dating everyone, everybody hates everyone, everybody has had like tons of plastic surgery and they're actually men and t*******.
