Ryan Reynolds Talks Babies and Wife Blake Lively: "We'd Love to Have a Big Family"

36-year-old heartthrob opens up about starting a family with his other half in Details magazine

By Alyssa Toomey Jul 08, 2013 11:07 PMTags
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Ryan Reynolds has never been one to dish details on his love life.

Case in point? The 36-year-old heartthrob secretly wed Blake Lively in a stunning Southern ceremony last summer before the tabloids even knew the couple was engaged.

While you won't find Reynolds sharing Instagram photos of the gorgeous duo, the perfect-picture pair are planning to start a family together, and the actor opened up about his future dreams of fatherhood in August issue of Details magazine.

"We'd love to have a big family," the mag's sexy cover star said. "We both come from big families—my parents did four, Blake's did five. A lot of people say it's crazy, but we'll only know when we're there, you know? We'll walk through that fire pretty happily, I think."

We concur that the notoriously private couple sounds like it will easily transition into parenthood (and it doesn't hurt that Blake, who credits Martha Stewart as her BFF, is also a fabulous chef!).

But just like the couple's nuptials, don't expect a big announcement detailing the baby news, and Reynolds explained why he has always chosen to keep his private life private.

"I don't intentionally try to be evasive about that stuff," the actor, who was previously married to Scarlett Johansson from 2008 to 2011, confessed. "If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean—words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly in an interview. It's a strange thing. I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent—for anyone, I think—to see your personal life summarized in a sentence."

Smart guy. But Ryan, who is the youngest of four boys, did admit he hopes to have more of a female balance in his home when he and Blake, 25, decide to start a family of their own.

"I'm terrified that I'm genetically predisposed to only having boys," he said. "That's frightening. By the time I was 10 years old, and I'm not exaggerating, I knew how to patch drywall. There's nothing my brothers and I didn't put a hole in. We turned our home into a Wiffle house. That's something I'm not looking forward to."

Luckily, he's got his own domestic goddess to keep it all under control.