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Reese Witherspoon has had to learn a lot while living in the spotlight, especially as a young mother being hounded by the tabloids.
In a conversation with @lulugnavarro on the latest edition of “The Interview,” @reesewitherspoon opened up about surviving the “very punishing time for women,” the anxiety of having her children followed by the paparazzi and what she’s learned on her journey to becoming an entertainment-industry powerhouse. Read, watch or listen to their discussion at the link in our bio.
Transcript
You end up in these big films that had a lot of initial success. You just mentioned them, Election, Cruel Intentions. And, you end up, of course, getting married and having children. I mean, Ryan Phillippe, of course, was your husband back then. Mhmm. You you had children. Great. I had to look it up. What was it about having kids? Because it was unusual, I think, in Hollywood to have kids, you know, in your early twenties. Yeah. I think. There was so much I didn't no. And maybe that naive day was good because it's like, oh, well, I'll just do that and have a career. And, I did have a few people say to me, this is gonna be really hard on your career. Was it difficult to be in a different part of life, than perhaps your peers were? Right. Yeah. That's true. And you know what the most ironic part was? I was always being told by different people in the industry, don't play a mom. It'll make you seem old. And I was like, but I am a mom. I'm like, better do think we've lost a lot of storytelling around mothers because there was so much about our business that it desexualized you. So you couldn't be a movie star if you played a mom. And thank goodness that's sort of going by the wayside. But that was a big part of when I was in my twenties and thirties, don't play a mom. No men will desire you no nobody will wanna go see that movie because nobody wants to see a movie about a mom.
