Blake Lively, star of romance film It Ends With Us, has come under fire after a series of interviews in the 2000s, where the actress repeatedly used a transphobic slur, were shared on social media.
The interview with Elle revealed she wanted to have daughters or ‘tr**nies’ because she wants to be able to hand down her shoe and handbag collection.
An extract from the interview, which has gone viral on X, prompted a series of replies highlighting other occasions when Lively used the slur in the 2000s.
In the original chat with Elle, Lively is quoted as saying: ‘I hope to have a few girls one day. If not girls, they’d better be tr**nies. Because I have some amazing shoes and bags and stories that need to be appreciated.’
She said it again here too. The early 2000s were a terrible time for language like this, so many people casually used these words. pic.twitter.com/cK8VLH3gFN
— alli. ✨ (@AlliApplebum) August 18, 2024
The star, who went onto have three daughters and one son, used the term again in a 2009 interview with Allure magazine.
‘I feel like a tr**ny 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.’
And in a third example, she repeats the slur in an on-screen interview with her then-Gossip Girl castmate Leighton Meester.
An off-screen interviewer is heard asking the pair about rumours they ‘didn’t get on.’
Lively replied: ‘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 tr**nies. It’s just like: you don’t listen to the rumours.’
One X user highlighted the original Elle magazine quote with the caption: ‘Sometimes I’ll be quietly going about my day and then I’ll remember the time Blake Lively said this to a journalist.’
A separate Reddit threat posted one day ago accused Lively of dropping a ‘transphobic slur’ in a video clip which has since been deleted.
In the responses, a commenter wrote: ‘That’s awful!’
Lively has been embroiled in a negative media campaign fuelled by rumours of an on-set feud with Justin Baldoni, 40, – her co-star and director for her latest film It Ends With Us.