Why Blake Lively demanding $300M over alleged mean girl claims against her is oh so ironic

That’s rich, Blake Lively.In new court documents, the beleaguered actress claims that being labeled a mean girl in her mucky legal battle against Justin Baldoni lost her nearly $300 million.Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I should receive reparations for having to watch her pathetic stab at a Boston accent in “The Town.”I’m still reeling.The former “Gossip Girl” star and wife of uber-wealthy actor Ryan Reynolds claims that she lost as much as $40.5 million thanks to alleged reputational damage from a smear campaign in the press, involving “the retaliatory phrases ‘tone deaf,’ ‘bully and ‘mean girl.'”Lively alleges she also missed out on past and future income — between $34.3 million and $87.8 million — from missed acting and endorsement opportunities.And she claims to have lost $39.6 million to $143.5 million in profits from her haircare and booze brands that she hawked during the promotion of “It Ends With Us,” the movie that caused all this drama.This smear campaign accusation is laughable.Lively shouldn’t blame Team Baldoni for those derisive labels.

She can thank herself.We learned who she is by watching her.We saw her strange interactions with reporters during the promotion of “It Ends with Us,” discussing domestic violence like it was a sunny floral arrangement.Then there is her damning sit-down with Norwegian journalist Kjersti Flaa while Lively was promoting Woody Allen’s 2016 period piece, “Cafe Society.” Flaa has called it “the Blake Lively interview that made me want to quit my job.”In it, a pregnant Lively mocked Flaa after the journalist congratulated her on her “bump.” Then she and co-star Parker Posey really dug in when Flaa asked them about their wardrobe in the 1930s-set movie.“But I wonder if they would ask the men about the clothes?” Lively said condescendingly, her body and face shifted toward Posey and completely cutting off Flaa.It was deeply uncomfortable to watch two fancy-pants celebrities del...