Blake Lively announced in a blog post on her lifestyle site "Preserve" that she is expecting her first child with husband Ryan Reynolds.
The Gossip Girl actress posted a photo set that shows a number of pregnant women enjoying a fruitful fall picnic saying "All the expecting mothers out there."
The blog post follows "Today we celebrate them. With food to fill their tummies (as if that needs more filling), presents to soothe their tired (and swollen) soles, toys to warm their baby's souls, projects to provoke them, and decorations to inspire creativity and merriment in all."
The final photo shows Lively showing off her baby bump, shot by brother photographer Eric Lively.
Lively and Reynolds have been married for two years now.
They met while shooting the 2011 superhero movie "The Green Lantern."
This will be the couple's first pregnancy.
The site also noted that the upcoming month's content "will be sprinkled with highlights for women in this exciting chapter of their lives."
Read the full post below:
"Preserve at its core is about family.
Family is the single word our founder, Blake, built this home on.
We have something for men, for women, for the old, but we realized we don't have anything for the new.
With family on our mind, we looked to the origin of it all - to the women in our lives who are right there, at that special moment, at the creation of family.
Today we celebrate them. With food to fill their tummies (as if that needs more filling), presents to soothe their tired (and swollen) soles, toys to warm their baby's souls, projects to provoke them, and decorations to inspire creativity and merriment in all.
We had too much fun with this. Because there's so much to share, we break up our first ever Preserve Celebration into multiple parts. In the upcoming days we will bring even more treats and fun. The entire next month will be sprinkled with highlights for women in this exciting chapter of their lives.
Congratulations to all the expecting mothers out there.
And thank you for being a part of our Preserve family."
