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Ryan Reynolds Took a Work Hiatus to Be With Blake Lively After She Gave Birth This Summer

News broke over the weekend that Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds welcomed their third child about two months ago. The couple confirmed they were expecting back in May, when Lively attended the premiere of Reynolds’s movie, Pokémon Detective Pikachu, in a form-fitting yellow dress. Now, details about the newborn are slowly trickling out—including something Reynolds did shortly after Lively gave birth.

According to Us Weekly, Reynolds took a brief work hiatus to be with Lively post-delivery. “Ryan left the set he was working [on] for about eight days,” a source tells the outlet.

Us reports that Lively and Reynolds’ new baby is about two months old, and that their decision to keep the birth private was deliberate. “They do everything they can to make sure [the kids] have a normal upbringing,” an insider says.

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This aligns with quotes Blake Lively has said in the past about her and Ryan Reynolds wanting to give their children relatively quiet home lives. “Ryan had a nice, normal upbringing, and we want our kids to have the same normal life that we had. We don’t ever want to rob them of what we had, because we’d feel really selfish,” she told Marie Claire in 2016.

She echoed similar sentiments in her September 2017 cover story for Glamour. “I admire people who find that what fulfills them is their art or their work, but what fulfills both me and my husband is our family,” she said. “Knowing that, everything else comes second. We’ve each given up stuff we loved in order to not work at the same time. I’m fortunate to be in a place now where I get to find the material—a book or script—early and develop it. So I know ahead of time that I’m going to be working on this job at this time. And we can plan around it.”

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Victoria’s Secret Swim Is Back After a Three-Year Hiatus

Just before the start of summer 2016, Victoria’s Secret shoppers said goodbye to its in-house swim line, seemingly for good. Parent company L Brands made the decision to counter slowing sales: “In order to better focus our resources on core merchandise categories, we have decided to eliminate non-core businesses, including swim, in our Victoria’s Secret lingerie business,” read a statement from the brand. Three years later Victoria’s Secret is reversing that decision.

On Monday Victoria’s Secret shared a big “secret”: It unveiled its relaunched swimwear selection on social media. The revamped assortment has much in common with the swim line shoppers may remember. The online-only collection includes colorful maillots and bikinis with cutouts and revealing fits. Prices for the new collection range from $42 to $158.

There are some new additions to the Victoria’s Secret swim lineup in its second iteration. Aside from its own in-house designs, it also carries swimwear from 15 outside vendors, including BCBGeneration, FAE, Lucky Brand, and Seafolly. The debut campaign was modeled by longtime brand models including Sara Sampaio, Elsa Hosk, and Jasmine Tookes.

The return of Victoria’s Secret swim comes after several years of weakening sales. Some of those declining numbers have been attributed to the brand’s “sexy” image. It has been criticized for casting a single body type in its campaigns and annual runway show. Meanwhile, brands that put inclusive sizing at the forefront (like Aerie or Harper Wilde) have grown.

Stuart Burgdoerfer, chief financial officer of L Brands, said customer feedback and further hits to sales following the line’s removal from stores led Victoria’s Secret back to its swim business. “We have made a very important decision and we believe a good one to reenter the swim business again, driven principally by customer feedback that we’ve received,” he said.

Given that, it’ll be interesting to see how the brand responds to customers now that the collection is live. After the launch, shoppers had mixed reactions to the collection. Many were excited to see swimsuits back on the Victoria’s Secret website but called the debut pieces “disappointing” and “expensive” on Twitter. The size range of the suits is also receiving criticism—it spans only from extra-small to large for one-pieces, bikini tops, and bottoms.

It’s not just swim that the embattled mall brand plans to revive. People reports that Victoria’s Secret will also expand into eyewear and footwear later this year. Meanwhile, in-store experiences are still declining. Per WWD, Victoria’s Secret still plans to close many brick-and-mortar stores this year.

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