Ryan Reynolds has said many things about his wife Blake Lively during interviews in the past, but one comment he made recently has some people thinking he may have crossed a line.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter which was released on Friday, December 13, the 48-year-old actor claimed that he and Lively, 37, were raised in a working-class environment.

Reynolds spoke about raising his children and how he and Lively try to give them a normal upbringing, despite their fame, telling the paper: “We try to give them as normal a life as possible. I try not to force on them the difference in their childhood from my childhood or my wife’s childhood.”

Later in the interview, he said, “We both grew up working class,” referring to himself and his wife, before adding, “and I remember when [his kids] I was very young, I would say or think, like, ‘Oh my God, I would never have had a gift like that when I was a kid,’ or ‘I would never have had the luxury of taking out food,’ or whatever. “

People on the internet give Deadpool and Wolverine actor grief over his comments, but not because of his own upbringing, because his father and mother worked as a policeman and a retail worker. The outrage is because Lively grew up in an affluent neighborhood in Los Angeles and was considered an infant. Her late father Ernie Lively worked as an actor and director and her mother Elaine Lively was an actress and talent agent.

Some users on Reddit took to the comments section of the news post to share their thoughts on what the actor said.

“Lally is a cut above Nepo Baby; she’s actually from a Hollywood dynasty. Lively’s whole family is involved in the performing arts and they’re not starving artists. You’d be a rebel in that family if you didn’t go.” to the movies or the theater,” one of the fans wrote about it Gossip Girl alum.

Another said: “Working class for the rich means they actually have to get up and do some work sometimes as opposed to just sleeping and living off your inheritance,” while a third crudely wrote: “These two desperately need to stop I can assure you , that Blake Lively is not a child and her own husband doesn’t know because he’s not in Hollywood.

Reynolds and Lively first met in 2010 on set Green lantern and they started dating the following year. The couple got engaged in late 2011 or early 2012 and tied the knot on September 9, 2012. They have four children together: James, 9, Inez, 8, Betty, 5, and their youngest, Olin, born in 2023.