It's a good thing she’s not allergic to insect venom, because Blake Lively could have suffered some serious consequences after being attacked by a swarm of bees during a recent shoot for her website, Preserve.
She was wrapping up the final day of shooting fall fashion for her site, she says, when she started feeling shooting pain in her bum, then her back and her hands.
‘Just yesterday, the final day of the shoot, I felt an electric shock of energy -- was it excitement that I was about to turn another year older? Was it nerves? Why did it feel like agony? I like getting older... I think. But this felt terrible,' she wrote on her website. 'Does your butt quite suddenly (and painfully) deflate when you turn 27? Because mine hurt like hell …then my neck, back, legs and forehead. And oh my hands! They were shriveling. It felt like I was being shot by dozens of tiny invisible darts. I felt like the Wicked Witch, melting, melting, burning, melting. As it happens, I wasn’t being greeted by the onset of spontaneous aging, but rather a full-fledged bee day. Attacked. All over. Everywhere.’
Blake says she ran around shrieking as though she was in a comedy sketch, although she actually doesn’t remember screaming bloody murder:
‘What I DO know, is that just moments before we were in the midst of a gorgeous fall fashion shoot. Now, I was a Monty Python sketch; running at top speed in no particular direction, whipping my arms and h ands around like I’d just discovered they were growing out of my shoulders without my previous knowledge. There was a terrible sound piercing the air too… I was later informed this sound had emanated from my very own mouth. I’d prefer to never hear it again. Along with everybody else on the East Coast.’
To console herself, Blake threw herself a fake 'birthday party' – basically creating little vignettes of her accessories on the kitchen counter and taking photos. ‘It wasn’t until I covered the counters in coordinating candy sprinkles that I stopped to acknowledge: my butt will deflate more and more, my hands will shrivel and permanently prune, but I will never, ever grow up.’
We’re just glad she didn’t have a My Girl moment, going into anaphylactic shock. Can you imagine?
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.