Born in Tarzana, Los Angeles to actors Ernie and Elaine Lively, Blake Lively seems to be inherited much artist quality. During Lively's childhood, her parents often took her with them to acting classes that they taught because they did not want to leave her with a babysitter. Lively said that observing her parents teach acting classes helped her learn the "drills" of acting and gain more confidence as she got older. Moreover, coming to Disneyland twice a week with her mother makes the 24-year-old actress cum model felt that she "grew up at Disneyland
Lively's locks which are showed in this 1990 picture have always attracted attention
This is the 2003 image of the Burbank High School cheerleader sporting classic California-girl highlights
With her tawny skin and surfer chic waves, the 18-year-old grasped a role in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants in 2005
Accepted is the comedy Blake Lively starred in 2006 with Justin Long in the college
In late 2007, rumors circulated that Lively was dating her Gossip Girl co-star and former childhood classmate Penn Badgley
This is the 2008 photo of the Gossip Girl lead being spotted in Mexico with new boyfriend Penn Badgley
Stylish Jennifer Johnson shared in the same year: "I twisted and braided small pieces and pinned them in and finished with hairspray
Also in 2009, Lively wore her hair in a dramatic waist-length braid
Blake Lively emphasized her natural radiance with beachy shades of bronze and coral
Lively looked gorgeous in Hick in 2010
With a strawberry blond, Lively changed so much in an artfully mussed plait for the Green Lantern premiere in 2011
