Blake Lively Opens Up About Big BIrd

Sometimes big birds turn into swans. Blake Lively opened up about her new role on Sesame Street, and why her new BFF was once a weapon other kids used against her.

As the 30-year-old shared on Instagram, classmates used to call her Big Bird.

• “Kids used to make fun of me in elementary school by calling me Big Bird (because I was ‘too tall’ and had ‘yellow’ hair). Here’s to making best buddies with the things that once hurt you,” she wrote alongside a pic of herself posing with her feathered friend.
• Lively has long an outspoken critic of body shaming and bullying. After she gave birth to James, now 3, she slammed the pressure put on new moms to lose weight.
• “You don’t need to be Victoria’s Secret-ready right away because you just did the most incredible miracle that life has to offer,” Lively said in 2016. “I mean you gave birth to a human being! So I would really like to see that celebrated.”
• Lively will appear on an upcoming episode of Sesame Street, joining dozens of other celebrity guest stars who have also appeared, including Anne Hathaway, Alicia Keys, John Mayer and Jennifer Garner.