Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds' baby announcement crashes Preserve site

Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds’ baby announcement crashes Preserve site

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Actors Blake Lively, left, and Ryan Reynolds attend a “Deadpool” fan event at AMC Empire Theatre on Feb. 8, 2016 in New York City ahead of the Marvel film’s release.

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Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively arrive for the screening of Reynolds’ film “The Captive” at the Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2014. (Valery Hache / AFP/Getty Images)

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Lively and Reynolds announced on Preserve, Lively’s just-launched lifestyle site, that they’re expecting their first child. She simply shared a snap of herself cradling her belly, crashing the fledgling site for several hours. Here, they attend the 2014 Angel Ball on Oct. 20, 2014. (Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images for Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation)

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Blake Lively steps out for the first time since announcing that she and husband Ryan Reynolds are expecting a baby, attending the God’s Love We Deliver, Golden Heart Awards in New York on Oct. 16, 2014. (Mike Coppola / Getty Images for Michael Kors)

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Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively attend the “Charles James: Beyond Fashion” Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 5, 2014, in New York City. Lively is wearing Gucci, the Italian design house for which she served as a spokeswoman. (Mike Coppola / Getty Images)

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Ryan Reynolds, second from left, and Blake Lively appear on stage at the “Chime for Change: The Sound Of Change Live” concert on June 1, 2013, in London. The girls’ and women’s empowerment campaign was founded by Gucci, the Italian design house for which Lively was a spokeswoman. (Ian Gavan / Getty Images for Gucci)

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Stars Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds arrive at the premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Green Lantern” at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre on June 15, 2011, in Hollywood. After Reynolds split with wife Scarlett Johansson, he and Lively began dating and then wed in September 2012. (Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images)

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“Green Lantern” costars Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds speak onstage during the 2011 MTV Movie Awards at Universal Studios’ Gibson Amphitheatre on June 5, 2011, in Universal City. (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)

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Ryan Reynolds accepts the award for Most Anticipated Movie from presenter Blake Lively onstage during Spike TV’s “Scream 2010” at the Greek Theatre on Oct. 16, 2010, in Los Angeles. (Michael Caulfield / Getty Images)

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Ryan Reynolds and costar Blake Lively speak onstage at the “Green Lantern” panel discussion during Comic-Con 2010 at the San Diego Convention Center on July 24, 2010. (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)

By Nardine SaadStaff Writer

Oct. 6, 2014 10:37 AM PT

Hey there, Upper Eastsiders, Blake Lively is pregnant and expecting her first child with husband Ryan Reynolds!

The “Gossip Girl” star announced the baby news Monday on Preserve, crashing the fledgling lifestyle website, which the actress launched in July.

The 27-year-old “Age of Adaline” star shared a sun-bathed snapshot of herself — taken by brother Eric Lively — cradling her burgeoning belly. The rest of the post featured Pinterest-ready baby-centric set-ups.

“Preserve at its core is about family. ‘Family’ is the single word our founder, Blake built this home on,” said the accompanying post from the site’s editorial staff, promising a monthlong dedication to expectant women and their future children. “We have something for men, for women, for the old, but we realized, we don’t have anything for the new. With family on our mind, we looked to the origin of it all — to the women in our lives who are right there, at that special moment; at the creation of family.”

It’ll be the first child for Lively and Reynolds, 37, who met while filming 2011’s comic book flick “Green Lantern.” Reynolds was still married to actress Scarlett Johansson at the time, and Lively had been linked to her “Gossip Girl” costar Penn Badgley.

After Reynolds and Johansson split and finalized their divorce in July 2011, he and Lively sparked up a romance, then wed in South Carolina in September 2012. (Incidentally, ScarJo welcomed her first child this September with new hubby Romain Dauriac.)

Vogue’s August 2014 cover girl gushed about the likelihood of her husband excelling in his upcoming paternal role.

“He’s going to be a great father and leader and patriarch — he’s so meant to be all of those things. The fact that he lived so much before we got together, he’s the exact realized person that he should be. And so I get to share my life with the person he’s become, and we get to grow from there,” Lively said of the “R.I.P.D.” star.

In an interview featured in Marie Claire‘s September issue, she was asked about her claims that she wanted 30 kids.

“I gotta get started,” she said. “If I could spit out a litter of kids, I would.”

No word yet on the child’s due date, but it’s likely that Lively is past the 12-week “safe” mark, which would put her due date in late winter or early spring.

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