The Hollywood star Reese Witherspoon became emotional this week as she opened up about her relationship with her adult children in a new interview.
People Magazine reported that the actress shares children Ava, 21, and son Deacon, 17, with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe, and shares 8½-year-old son Tennessee James with husband Jim Toth. In Interview’s Summer 2021 cover story, Witherspoon talked to actress Tracee Ellis Ross, who asked her about the “last thing that gave you delight.”
“Dancing around my kitchen this morning to different top 40 songs,” Witherspoon replied. “I’ll do anything to make people laugh, it’s sad. I’m sure my children find it horrifying, but my mother used to do the same thing.”
“They’ll look back on it fondly, and it will probably promote you having a long, fruitful, delicious relationship with your kids the way you do with your mom, because I know how much you love your mom,” Ross said in response.
“That makes me want to cry, the idea of having a long relationship with adult children,” Witherspoon continued “I never expected the kind of relationship that I have with them, but it’s so rewarding to be able to have kids that you can process life with a little bit, and they help me understand the complexities of what it means to be a human now.”
“So I’m really, really grateful that these little humans are in my life,” she added. “Adult humans. I have two adult children now, Tracee. It’s crazy.”
Last year, Witherspoon opened up about becoming a mother at a young age right when her career was taking off.
“To be completely candid, I was terrified,” she said of being a young parent, according to People Magazine. “I got pregnant when I was 22 years old and I didn’t know how to balance work and motherhood, you just do it.”
“I didn’t know if I was going to have steady work, too,” she added. “I made movies but I hadn’t established myself as someone who could demand that it shoot close to my kids’ school.”
Witherspoon went on to say that at the time she got pregnant, she “didn’t have any real power or leverage within my industry.”
“I was just like every other mom and dad trying to figure it out,” Witherspoon said. “There’s a lot of compromise. Every bit of that sacrifice is truly worth it. You feel like that’s what makes me wake up on a Sunday, it’s not movies or my job, it’s my kids.”
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