Ryan Reynolds would have given himself a "punching vasectomy" if his son had been his first child

Ryan has now joked raising three girls had been "so easy" compared to handling a little boy who "has to break everything".also admitted he has some reservations about raising boys after growing up in a household full of them.

Ryan made the comments during an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, while chatting about how his boy Olin , two, had brought a new kind of chaos into the family's previously calm home.

He said: "We live in a very, like, there's nothing violent in our home.

"There's nothing creepy. (But Olin) came out with three things on his mind. It was violence, breasts and engines.

"I really don't understand where this comes from.

"If I had like three boys at first, I would never - there's no way. I would give myself a punching vasectomy. Like, there's no way I would allow that to happen."

Host Seth Meyers asked whether his daughters had any thoughts about the family's new dynamic.

He said: "Do the girls collectively feel it's an HR issue that you've added a boy to the family?"

Ryan laughed and replied: "I do."

He added: "I'm like in direct competition with this young man.

"No, he's - I'm the youngest of four boys and boy do I feel for my mom. You know, like, I really do. My dad, meh. But my mom really."

Ryan also recalled his own chaotic upbringing with his parents, Tammy Reynolds and James 'Jim' Chester Reynolds, and his three older brothers, Jeff, Jerry and Patrick.

He said: "Do you know how many times my brothers had me exit a room not through the door?

"I was a moving target that they would use. You know cops, what they would use when they're breaking into the place with a battering ram - that was my head. I was the ram."

He also said growing up as the youngest of four boys made him unusually resourceful.

Ryan added: "When I was eight, I'm not making this up. I knew how to patch drywall.

"That right there says a lot. Like I knew how to literally - a hole in the wall, I could repair that in less than six minutes before my dad got home perfectly. Like spackle, sand, and paint, we're good."

The actor has previously spoken about how fatherhood changed him, telling The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2018 it had made him "a better person".

He said: "It's a dream. They're the best. They're my buddies. I love it."