Blake Lively Revealed Her Real Middle Name And Why She's "Always Hated" It

Real quick — what's Blake Lively's middle name?

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Yeah, I figured you wouldn't know. And that's OK! Because, honestly, it sounds like Blake herself doesn't even want you to know.

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But she recently spilled anyway in an interview with MTV UK — and she also explained why she doesn't even like it that much.

During the interview, her It Ends with Us costar Isabela Ferrer mentioned that Blake had actually said her middle name in front of her, but she couldn't remember it. “Have I? I don’t really talk about it much,” Blake responded.

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After allowing Isabela to take a few guesses at her middle name, Blake revealed it herself: Ellender.

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“It’s not a name. My mom, I think, made it up by accident,” she explained. “It’s not a word, it doesn’t exist."

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Blake went on to say that she was "confused" by her own middle name while she was growing up.

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"So, I always hated it," she admitted, before apologizing “if there’s any Ellenders watching this.”

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But! Blake also revealed that her husband, Ryan Reynolds (ever heard of him?), "loved" her middle name upon learning it.

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"My husband loved it, which made me like it more," Blake said. Aww.

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Anyway, you can watch the whole clip here.