My Problem With Blake Lively
The ‘It Ends With Us’ star has a disturbing fascination
Blake Lively is problematic.
The actor’s issues not only include her leading role in the controversial film It Ends With US (based on the just as polarizing bestselling novel of the same name), but also her disturbing fascination with a horrid time in the history of the United States: the Antebellum South.
Lively is a big fan of the Antebellum (pre-Civil War) South. She is so enamored with it, she held her 2012 wedding to Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds on the grounds of the Boone Hall Plantation in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
The media coverage of her nuptials was fawning and cloying — as is the case with most celebrity weddings. The guests were star-studded, including Bette Midler, Florence Welch (Florence + the Machine), and America Ferrera.
Lively wore a designer gown by Marchesa along with custom shoes by Louboutin. Reynolds wore a tuxedo by Burberry.
The Lively-Reynolds wedding was a glamorous affair — held on the grounds of a plantation. A site where Africans were enslaved.
Lively and Reynolds, along with their famous friends, were celebrating on blood-soaked ground. Land where the enslaved lived exploited lives filled with unimaginable pain…
