If you are anything like me, you've seen most of Reese Witherspoon's movies (several times over).
As well as we may know her films — I mean, I can recite lines from Legally Blonde easily — there are still so many details about her that fans may not know.
Here are a few random, little-known facts about Reese!
While Legally Blonde certainly shot her into stardom and she has done nothing but great movies since, it's her recent performances in Big Little Lies and Little Fires Everywhere that have people looking in her direction!
Luckily, we have compiled a great list of random facts about the star to get people familiar with her!
Let's get into it!
"I'll be totally honest with you. If I never had to see the inside of a gym again I would be a very happy person. There are people who love it, it's just their thing. I can do it, and I do it for my job because I'm really lucky to get this job or have a job, but it's not my first choice of morning activities," she told Female First.
"Ava and Deacon [12] are very aware of the work I do, and the rest they don't pay attention to. They often invite their friends over to the house, and we always have a lot of fun. My kids have seen most of my films, and needless to say my daughter loves Legally Blonde!" she told Working Mother in 2015.
"Deacon gets angry, though, when he watches me in a film kissing someone other than his father [actor Ryan Philippe]."
"I had someone correct my grammar once on a blind date, and within the first 10 minutes the date was over. You just don't correct somebody's grammar. That's just not okay. I'm from Tennessee, so I probably say everything wrong. I might have said ain't, or something like that," she told Seventeen.
"I think there are some amazing people out there doing work with different organizations. There is also a wonderful organization called Service Nation, which is organizing an opportunity for people to give back through service work."
"Its not just about giving money, but its about giving time, energy, and effort," she told Female First.
She explained that after being called "washed up" in a magazine article and having to fight for equal pay among her male colleagues, she simply decided to start her own production company called Hello Sunshine.
"I had no idea I had this skill until about eight years ago."
Good for you, Queen!
"I’m probably most secure in my comedic acting and least secure in my ability to play basketball," she told InStyle.
"Prenatals. One of my girlfriends told me she takes them even though she's not pregnant, so now I do, too. It makes my hair look better," she told Allure.
"My mothering personality is nothing like my work personality. I melt around my kids. I’m much more squishy, soft, and lovey with a caramel center," she told InStyle.
"As a teenager, you only know what you know in the world. You don’t know what it’s like to work in a foreign country or to be in medicine or science. I have friends in a lot of different fields, so I try to surround my kids with people who have incredible experiences in other industries. We can get really isolated here in Hollywood."
"I was worried that I wasn't getting enough sleep because my daughter Ava was sick quite often during the shoot and there were a lot of days when I didn't think I could pull it off," she said to Cinema of balancing work and being a new mom.
"And then you throw in the fact that I'm supposed to be playing a very bubbly and energetic California preppy who is smiling all the time! I kept thinking, 'I'm going to kill myself! I'm never going to make it!'"
Believe it or not, the casting director's first choice for the role was Tori Spelling, followed by Christina Applegate.
After both actresses turned down the part, Katherine Heigl, Gwyneth Paltrow, Alicia Silverstone, and Charlize Theron were next in line. Then Reese.
"My makeup artist, Molly R. Stern, taught me how to put on fake eyelashes. She hates that I put on a full strip, but I'm from the South — I love a good ol'-fashioned drugstore strip lash. I pop it on, put a little liquid liner over it, and I feel like my eyes look more open," she told Allure.
"Even if you read a million books on a situation, you don't understand it until you see it yourself. I was very lucky that they organized for her to be there, because she is a little young to be off on these trips. It was... she didn't say a word, the whole day," she told Female First.
"Seeing that is one thing, but the other remarkable thing was the joy and determination of these people, to rise above, and their determination to have a better life for their children. Their spirit was just incredible! They greet you with smiles and laughter and dancing. I think it's definitely going to [affect] her for a long time, as it did me."
"Well, I had a girlfriend who said something really smart to me the other day. She was telling me a story about how she always used to go to the same coffee shop and she was really into the guy making the coffee."
"So she said, 'I think it's important not to follow the guy that you're chasing. Look at the guy who's chasing you.' I think that takes time and life experience to sort of notice because boy is it fun chasing boys, especially when you're young. But when you're older, it's a whole other thing."
“I always tended to be outspoken with my opinions,” she told Vogue. “Whether they were appropriate or not.”
As a powerful woman, this is super important! She needs to have a voice!
“I was sick of making movies where I was the only female lead on the set. I was sick of seeing scripts where there was one female role, badly written, and yet every actress in town wanted the part because there was nothing else,” she said to Vogue.
“On top of the acting and producing and the books and Draper James, she also carves the pumpkins! She raises three kids. She maintains friendships. I know what it’s like to be in this business and also raise kids. You remember that book I Don’t Know How She Does It? That’s Reese!” she told Vogue.
Considering the success of the show, this is not hard to believe.
It is just truly unfortunate it took three projects before people took this complete icon seriously!
"To me always, authors were my rock stars growing up," Witherspoon said to CBS News. "So being able to … this is gonna make me emotional, but like, sometimes when our writers say, like, 'You changed my life financially,' or that, oh my God, we're like putting them in a position where they get read and seen when they deserve it so much, is worth everything."
Well, like most people, standing on top of a very tall building and then having to look down really scares her.
That's not completely unreasonable if you ask me.
"I was 23 years old and had just had a baby. I was nursing Ava on set, and Jen just kept going, 'You have a baby?' I was like, 'I know, it’s weird.' And I remember her being like, 'Where are you going?' And I was like, 'I’m pumping!'" she said to Harpers Bazaar.
"I really want to change things. I really want, I see younger women in our industry and I want them to have a better experience. I want to see that they have a beautiful idea of what the future could hold," she said to CBS News.
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