When you get a perfect Hollywood couple, Like Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively, it's impossible
to imagine that they were ever with anyone else.
Well, in this case, it's true.
Ryan was, in fact, married to Scarlett Johanson when he met his future wife, Blake.
Reynolds and Lively have given fans a hilarious and intimate look into their relationships
with their Twitter banter and Instagram pics.
However, when he was married to Scarlett, their marriage was pretty much out of the
spotlight.
So what was it about his first marriage that he wanted to stay private, and is it true
that the actor refused to work with his ex-wife?
Hearing that Black Widow and Deadpool were actually married to each other in real life
might be news to you.
And we don't blame you for that.
Ryan and Scarlett weren't very public about their relationship and marriage.
In fact, the pair were hardly spotted and photographed together.
This probably sounds a little strange considering what Ryan's marriage to Blake Lively has been
like.
Granted, they've been private about their three daughters, but when it comes to their
own relationship, they've been pretty happy to share intimate snaps of just the two of
them together.
The pics and tweets come with some hilarious captions that fans can't help but laugh at.
However with Scarlet, things were very different.
They weren't the typical Hollywood couple that went out publicly together and gushed
about one another.
The world didn't even know that they were a thing until they confirmed that they had
gotten married in 2008!
Now, we're not saying that there's anything wrong with keeping things private, but it's
another story when a couple doesn't even want to show any PDA in public.
Unfortunately, to fans' dismay, their marriage didn't last.
When Scarlett and Ryan parted ways in 2010, it was the biggest news of its time, despite
the fact their whole relationship had been kept pretty under wraps.
Naturally, they both kept their lips tightly sealed when it came to talking about their
split.
Many sources have claimed several reasons to be the cause of their divorce, but the
one thing fans think was the true reason is that Scarlett Johansson was at the peak of
her career while Reynolds was just making it.
Both actors are now among the most sought-after stars in Hollywood, but it wasn't always that
easy for Ryan.
He too had to suffer climbing up the ladder of the Movie-Making world; thankfully, it
paid off in the end.
But perhaps the struggle to grow his career while he was married to Scarlett, whose career
was already booming, took its toll.
No use talking about that now because they're both happy in life and have a successful careers.
On the other hand, what you might find incredibly interesting is that Reynolds has allegedly
asked Marvel studios to keep him out of any of Scarlett's movies.
Doesn't that make you raise an eyebrow … or two.
Yeah, us too.
Want to know why?
Well, it seems that Ryan simply wants to avoid any awkwardness with his ex-wife.
While these are simply allegations, there might be some truth to them.
The actor is said to have quite a few future Marvel projects coming his way, and his one
condition to making the films is that he wouldn't have to share a set with Scarlet.
This might be a tough one to avoid since Scarlett has her own set of Marvel movies and it would
seem that they would be bound to cross paths eventually.
However, it's been rumored that Johansson will hang her own spy gadgets for good.
So maybe they won't be crossing paths after all.
Ryan must be relieved.
According to every report we got, their marriage didn't end well.
Because, well, Reynolds wanted a family at that time, and Scarlett had her own career
to take care of.
In the end, they did get what they wanted.
Ryan Reynolds is now one of the highest-paid actors and has a beautiful family with beautiful
kids and a wife he loves and adores.
Scarlett Johansson is one of the most famous actors in the world, and in the end, she also
got her happily ever after with the man she loves, Colin Jost
and their new bundle of joy.
Years after her divorce to Ryan, when Scarlett's Oscar-nominated Marriage Story, also starring
Adam Driver, was released, she decided to open up on what went wrong in their own marriage.
Johansson reflected on her youth in her first marriage and the different way she interpreted
exchanging vows compared to now in a new interview with Vanity Fair, though did not actually
mention her ex-husband by name.
"I mean, the first time I got married I was 23 years old.
I didn't really have an understanding of marriage.
Maybe I kind of romanticised it, I think, in a way."
After announcing their divorce in December 2010 - through a joint statement affirming
their continued 'love and kindness for each other - Johansson found love again with French
journalist Romain Dauriac, who she married in 2014, although
they divorced just three years later.
So with two failed marriages, there's no doubt that the actress had learned a lot of lessons
during that time.
Around the time of her divorce from Dauriac, with whom she shares a 6-year-old daughter,
Johansson met with director Noah Baumbach
who was writing the script for a new film Marriage Story about a couple going through
a divorce.
"I had some kind of shared experience with the character, or with any person going through
a divorce, really," Johansson said.
"I understood the bittersweetness of it somehow, in a way.
All those kind of in-between feelings that the character has.
I understood them because I had gone through them myself."
In the Netflix film -which if you haven't seen by now, we HIGHLY recommend.
Have some tissues near, because it will have you sobbing your heart out.
Johansson plays Nicole who is in the midst of a divorce from her husband Charlie, played
by Adam Driver.
The couple shares a child too, which the actress explains she could relate to more as she co-parents
her daughter with Dauriac.
The 36-year-old actress reflected on what she's learned about marriage now, after going
through her experiences of divorce and finding love again.
"It's a different part of my life now," she confessed, in comparison to the first marriage
with Reynolds.
"I feel like I'm in a place in my life where I'm able to make more active choices.
I'm more present, I think, than I've been before."
While they'll be avoiding one another onset in the future, they've both moved on in their
respective lives and seem to be truly happy.
Colin Jost and Scarlett quietly got married in October 2020.
Johansson spoke about the wedding to People in April.
"I think just keeping it intimate and small made it feel intentional," she said.
"We wanted it to feel like it had an intentional intimacy as opposed to being something that
felt like we were restricted by all these things."
Not only did they keep their wedding under wraps, but her pregnancy too.
We guess that since the world was under lockdown for most of her pregnancy, it helped to keep
things a secret.
The couple didn't announce that she was expecting until just about when she gave birth.
But now that their son, baby Cosmo, has arrived, we did a little digging to find out about
how they're coping with parenthood.
"They are very private but elated over the baby," an entertainment source shared.
"They are both so happy and madly in love with the baby.
They wanted this child who will fit right into their lives since they already have her
daughter.
They are an awesome couple, both talented, smart and clever.
They will be the best parents."
And it seems that Jost is also the ultimate father, "Colin is considerate and helpful
in everyday life so adding one more to the mix should be fine," the source added.
"The baby is the best thing ever for both of them."
Since Scarlett doesn't have social media, it was Colin who announced their son's birth
after Johansson's rep confirmed a week ago that the actress recently gave birth to their
son.
That rep did not specify the baby's name or exact birth date.
Jost did reveal the name on his Instagram.
He wrote, "Okay okay we had a baby.
His name is Cosmo.
We love him very much.
Privacy would be greatly appreciated."
He wrote in the caption of his Instagram.
Ryan and Blake are also living their own happily ever after, having recently welcomed their
3rd daughter back in 2019.
In their usual secretive manner, multiple publications confirmed that the couple welcomed
their third child, although no details about their new baby's name had been shared.
Fans also didn't know if it was a boy or a girl.
That was until Reynolds shared a photo of himself, Lively, and a baby, who appears to
be their third child, in a carrier.
The baby's face has been blurred out and covered with a smiley face.
In this tweet, he also referenced his "daughters," which seemed to confirm that he and Lively's
third child is also a girl.
Blake's dear friend, Taylor Swift, wrote the song "Betty" for her newest album "Folklore"
that features the names of Lively and Reynold's other two kids, James and Inez, seemingly
confirming the couple's third child's name is Betty.
Well, that's one creative way to announce your baby's name to the world.
We're so happy that both Scarlett and Ryan were able to move on and find the happiness
that they deserve.
While the journey wasn't easy, it's clear that sometimes the person that you marry isn't
always the one and it's okay for things not to work out.
Your true love might be right around the corner.