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Blake Lively Would Rather Be a Disney Villain than a Princess

She sees herself as more of an Ursula than an Ariel.
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It’s been an emotional couple of weeks for Blake Lively. She swept through Cannes in a parade of outfits that kept everyone guessing whether or not she’s actually pregnant. One of those outfits was a gown that made her look like Cinderella. If you’d told us that animated birds had helped her get into that dress, we would’ve believed you. Another one of those Cannes creations made Lively look exactly like Queen Elsa from Frozen. But just like Elsa, Lively is all, “Let it go,” people—or, “Let it glo,” as she wrote on Instagram. She doesn’t want to be a Disney princess. She instead chooses to align herself with some fairy-tale characters you may never expect.

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That’s right: Blake Lively fancies herself a Disney villain. We’re not sure if she sides with all villainesses from the Disney canon (including Maleficent, Cruella de Vil, Lady Tremaine, and the Evil Queen) or just Ursula. What we can deduce from this photo, however, is that Lively knows we’ve all been comparing her Cannes gowns to Disney-princess looks. She absolutely follows the Internet chatter.

From there, we can also extrapolate that Lively might be trying to steer the conversation away from another bit of fodder she’s provided thanks to a different look she wore at Cannes, combined with another attempt at social-media wit. Last week, the actress posted a composite photo of herself seen from the front and behind in the Atelier Versace gown she wore to the opening night of the film festival. The caption that accompanied the Instagram post, “L.A. face with an Oakland booty,” is a line from Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back.” Some of Lively’s followers thought her use of the lyric was mirthful and in good fun. Others found it problematic. Sir Mix-a-Lot himself defended Lively’s usage of the line in The Hollywood Reporter, praising all women’s bodies in the process.

All in all, it’s been quite a couple of weeks for Blake Lively. She’s probably pregnant. She’d rather be Ursula than Ariel. She knows the lyrics to “Baby Got Back” and (most likely) “Poor Unfortunate Souls.” Imagine her performing them in a medley for Ryan Reynolds and their daughter, James, like that scene from Friends where Ross and Rachel keep singing “Baby Got Back” to Emma. Please add to the fact that on top of being Elsa, Cinderella, and Ursula, Blake Lively is also Rachel Green.