Blake Lively has a decent new interview with the Los Angeles Times. Blake has been enjoying the past week of wall-to-wall press, probably because it’s her first film press tour since 2012. She’s been doing a major (and bizarre) fashion show in New York, but I kind of think the fashion show has just been to deflect from the fact that, oh right, Blake is kind of boring in interviews. She doesn’t have a lot to say in general. So why pick up on this LAT interview? Well, she actually had her baby with her in the interview – she was breastfeeding and she asked the LAT reporter not to describe it in the article (which the reporter does not). Blake also tells some lies about how she announced her pregnancy, because I guess she thinks we’re stupid. Some highlights:

Blake didn’t want to tell people she was pregnant? Lively hoped to conceal her pregnancy until she gave birth but shared the news at seven months because she found out that paparazzi had taken pictures of her (and her growing stomach) on vacation with Reynolds.

She didn’t think ‘Gossip Girl’ was about the quality of the content. “If it was about the content, they wouldn’t hand us our script pages minutes before shooting. You’re part of this machine — this pop culture phenomenon — but as an actor, the quality of your work is definitely compromised because of that. When I finished the last season, I didn’t feel good at it anymore. I didn’t feel stimulated. It had become muscle memory, but not good muscle memory — like bad-habit muscle memory.”

The bad reviews of her lifestyle site, Preserve: “You feel like you’re in high school and being bullied,” Lively says of the negative reviews. James, who was bouncing on her lap, gurgled. “Excuse me! She has a lot to say on the subject. She hates bullying.”

She’s sticking with Preserve: “I’m a lot better at this than I am at acting. I always feel like I’m faking it when I’m acting. I do the best I can do to tell the story in the best way, but I always feel really lucky when I get a job. I feel confident when I’m cooking or decorating. It’s something I control beginning, middle and end. That ownership feels good.”

She wants more kids: “It’s addictive…Having a baby is just living in the constant unexpected. You never know when you’re gonna get crapped on or when you’re gonna get a big smile or when that smile immediately turns into hysterics. It might be like living with a drug addict. But you have a baby and you think, ‘I can’t imagine ever not having a baby,’ because they grow up so quickly. I’d be an 80-year-old woman with a baby if I could.”

[From The LAT]

Oh, so much here to parse. First of all… while the paparazzi might have gotten photos of Blake’s pregnant belly, let’s be real, she used her pregnancy announcement to shill the launch of Preserve. She literally posted the first “bump photo” on Preserve as part of the launch of the site. And yes, she’s “better” at Preserve-ing than she is at acting, although that’s setting the bar pretty low. And no, what we said about Preserve wasn’t “bullying.” We were utterly justified in mocking the crappy functionality of the site AND the cheesy, offensive writing. Anyone remember her stupid “Allure of Antebellum” post? Because it was so quaint and lovely in the American South when black folks were slaves, right? SO ALLURING.

And why is Blake criticizing Gossip Girl so much these days? Chica, that’s the show that made you famous. Stop biting the hand that fed you and made you a household name.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.