Blake Lively, the former Gossip Girl star and lifestyle blogger, revealed that she brought in her 27th birthday with an onslaught of bee stings.

Blake Lively Attacked By Bees

Lively revealed her run-in with the swarm of bees on her lifestyle blog Preserve. While shooting content for the next couple of months on the website she felt a sting – which she briefly allowed herself to believe was symptomatic of her aging.

“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,” Lively wrote. “But this felt terrible. 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.”

Eventually, Lively realized what the true culprit was – a “full-fledged bee day” – and reacted appropriately.

“I was a Monty Python sketch; running at top speed in no particular direction, whipping my arms and hands around like I’d just discovered they were growing out of my shoulders without my previous knowledge,” wrote the actress. “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.”

“It took a swarm of bees to remind me that a b-day is nothing but a number. Each day I choose my age,” Lively added. “Today it’s 27, going on 2.”

As a way of recovering from the bee attack, Lively decided to put her good housekeeping skills to use, decorating a faux birthday cake with flowers, bejeweled necklaces and cake-scented candles. As for the counter, she decorated that with candy sprinkles.