Ryan Reynolds Earnestly Paid Tribute to Blake Lively and His Daughters in Speech: ‘You Are My Happiness’

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively often troll each other on social media, but during Reynolds’ People’s Choice Award speech for the ceremony’s Icon Award last night, the actor offered a genuinely earnest remark about Lively and their three daughters, James, 7, Inez, 6, and Betty, 3.

“I’ve got to thank my family family,” he said after thanking his work family, via Buzzfeed. “Blake and my three daughters. It’s going to be a fourth child very soon. If it happens tonight, while I’m here, I will be looking for a couch to sleep on for a little while. I’d venture to guess that [People’s Choice Award performer] Shania Twain has an amazing couch, I’m just saying,” he joked.

“But Blake and my girls, you are quite literally my heart,” he continued. “You are my hope, you are my happiness. I joke that my family exhaust me, but in reality, you give me more strength than any man could possibly deserve.”

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Reynolds shared a rare look at Lively during her fourth pregnancy on his Instagram on Dec. 5, posting a photo of them meeting Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus. “We met Jessica Claus and her husband on the Polar Express. She was everything I’d always dreamed since I was a kid. She smelled like cinnamon buns and sangria. 🎄,” he captioned it.

Lively poked fun at her husband and his photo cropping job in his comment section, writing, “My. Shoes 🙄”

Lively shared personal photos from her pregnancy in September, in part to deter paparazzi from staking out their home. “Here are photos of me pregnant in real life so the 11 guys waiting outside my home for a 🦄 sighting will leave me alone,” she wrote. “You freak me and my kids out. Thanks to everyone else for all the love and respect and for continuing to unfollow accounts and publications who share photos of children. You have all the power against them. And thank you to the media who have a ‘No Kids Policy’. You all make all the difference 🙏♥️. Much love! Xxb.”

The actress hasn’t posted about Reynolds’ People’s Choice Award appearance yet. While she wasn’t at the People’s Choice Awards (likely due to being very pregnant), she did accompany Reynolds on Nov. 17 to the American Cinematheque Awards in Beverly Hills.