Blake Lively Says She 'Always Hated' Her Unique Middle Name: 'My Mom, I Think, Made It Up by Accident'
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Blake Livelyhas learned to appreciate her middle name.
“Have I? I don’t really talk about it much,” Lively responded.
Seeing her costar struggle to remember, Lively began to give Ferrer clues to help her figure it out: “If you write diary entries [it’s] the first part of my middle name.”
“Ellen? Your middle name is Ellen?” Ferrer asked.
Before Lively could give another clue, Ferrer blurted, “Elenor? Elenora?”
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With Ferrer still guessing to no avail, Lively said, “Yeah, kind of, but with a ‘D.’ ”
After incorrectly guessing “Delanor,” Lively finally caved in and told Ferrer that her middle name is “Ellender.”
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But next came how to pronounce it properly — to which Ferrer wrongly compared it to Professor Dumbledore ofHarry Potterfame.
“I’m not Dumbledore, it’s Ellender,” Lively said with a laugh. “Though Dumbledore honestly [would] probably [be] a better option.”
“So, I always hated it,” she said during the interview, pausing to look at the camera and apologize “if there’s any Ellenders watching this.”
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“But my husband loved it, which made me like it more,” Lively said.
According to Lively, Reynolds, 47, thought his wife’s unique name sounded like “lavender.”
An excited Ferrer interjected, agreeing that “it does” sound similar to the plant, adding that the name had a regal ring to it.
“It sounds very elegant and graceful,” Ferrer said, adding that the name sounded “royal” as if she should be called “Lady Ellender III.”
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source: people.com
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