However, Lively saw the alleged interaction as Baldoni criticizing her weight after she gave birth to her and Reynolds’ fourth child, son Olin, in early 2023, according to a lawsuit she filed against Baldoni in New York Dec. 31.
“Mr. Baldoni also routinely degraded Ms. Lively by finding back channel ways of criticizing her body and weight,” read her lawsuit, obtained by E! News Dec. 31. “A few weeks before filming began and less than four months after Ms. Lively had given birth to her fourth child, Ms. Lively was humiliated to learn that Mr. Baldoni secretly called her fitness trainer, without her knowledge or permission, and implied that he wanted her to lose weight in two weeks.”
According to Lively’s filing, “Mr. Baldoni told the trainer that he had asked because he was concerned about having to pick Ms. Lively up in a scene for the movie, but there was no such scene.”
She also accused the Jane the Virgin actor of going “out of his way to message criticisms of her age and weight, neither of which she could change during filming.”
Baldoni’s attorney previously addressed Lively’s allegations after she filed a legal complaint on Dec. 21, saying it was an attempt to “fix her negative reputation,” adding the claims were “false, outrageous and intentionally salacious with an intent to publicly hurt.”
