"It was the first time we were ever on the red carpet together,. It was scary to put yourself out there like that, but then it also seems really silly to be standing five feet from each other and refusing to stand together.
"It's always that tricky balance of keeping your privacy but then also not being absurd," she recalled.
Lively, 27, who welcomed daughter James with Reynolds, 38, three months back, said she is, however, happy that her kids will have a picture of their parents posing together, reported Us magazine.
Lively and Reynolds, who married after just a year of dating, have always been private, and even managed to keep their South Carolina 2012 wedding under wraps until fans started to spot their family members around town.