Blake Lively has made a reputation for herself within the performing world, starring in Gossip Girl, The Age of Adeline and most just lately, her Anna Kendrick team-up A Simple Favor. But earlier than she made it huge in Hollywood, she had one other entertainment-based path in thoughts.
“I kind of thought I used to be Baby Spice for some time,” Lively admitted to Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show‘s particular Central Park episode Thursday night time (Sept. 13). “I nonetheless do. I’m a hoarder, so I nonetheless attempt to jam my toes into these sneakers. I nonetheless have them, and I’ve the ‘Baby’ necklace.”
The sneakers and necklace Lively is referring to had been a part of Baby Spice outfit that she wore to a Spice Girls live performance 21 years in the past, which just lately surfaced because of a fan realizing she had an image with Blake Lively Baby Spice, not Emma Bunton. Though Lively reposted the photo, she realized perhaps her Baby Spice second went a little bit in a different way than she recollects: “I all the time keep in mind this second the place this little lady was simply so excited to see me as a result of she met Baby Spice, after which I noticed the image as a result of this lady discovered it and she or he was actually… nonplussed.”
But no matter how the little lady felt, Lively’s Baby Spice second got here full circle when Bunton herself responded to the picture, which introduced out the full-fledged fan lady inside Lively.
“My solely life objective as a child was to marry Ricky Martin and meet all 5 Spice Girls,” Lively stated. “I nonetheless have not completed that, however I can not consider she is aware of who I’m.”
Lively could get her probability to fulfill Baby Spice face-to-face within the considerably close to future, as Mel B (aka Scary Spice) simply confirmed that the Spice Girls will be going on a reunion tour. While she did not say when, it has been reported that the celebrity lady group — sans Victoria Beckham — will probably be enjoying 13 dates within the UK subsequent yr.
Watch Lively speak Baby Spice under.
