Reese Witherspoon Doesn’t Talk Sex But IS Popular (Reese Witherspoon Covers Vogue May 2011)

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Reese Witherspoon knows than being an A-list celebrity isn’t easy. People want to know about everything you do, wear and think. And with the recent marriage to her boyfriend of a year Reese will be followed by paparazzi everywhere. She isn’t naïve and understands she shouldn’t hope to be left alone even for a moment. What I like about this situation is that Reese doesn’t talk sex and she is still very-very popular. So, we do value the talent. (Rihanna, you should definitely think about this!) Returning to Reese I should mention her Vogue May 2011 cover. She looks beautiful on the front page but much more attractive inside the editorial.

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Reese Witherspoon has done an interesting circus-inspired photoshoot posing in a number of sexy and stylish evening gowns. In the interview for Vogue May 2011 issue the actress revealed a lot about how excited she had been with marriage preparations, how happy she was with her new husband, told about her movie Water for Elephants and even discussed the age issue. Know more details right after the jump!

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Reese Witherspoon on tabloid obsession with her life: “It usually heats up during, like, pregnancies or babies or marriage. It’s the drama of real life. . . . It’s interesting to people. Readers want to know! I was talking to an actress the other day who is pregnant right now, and she was like, ‘What is it? What’s the deal?’ She said, ‘Oh, maybe once I have the baby no one will pay any attention,’ and I was like, ‘Bwah-ha-ha-ha!!!!’ ” She exaggeratedly tosses her head back. “ ‘Oh, yeah. They will leave you alone after you have the baby. Suuure. That’s exactly how it works.’ ”

Reese Witherspoon on toughness of being a celebrity: “You know, it can be a crazy life. Sometimes you feel like you are on a speeding train and you just don’t know where it’s going. You can start to lose your identity and what it is that you are really working for.” Like a lot of working women, she’s constantly looking for the right balance. “I don’t wake up to make movies. I wake up to have a wonderful family and to cultivate the best life for all of us, and it’s great to now have a partner in that. We have a lot of family meetings. ‘Mom’s going to be away and coming home on the weekends. How does everybody feel about that?’ It’s always military operations around here. Lots of different moving parts. I have my moments when I feel like I’m just going to collapse and I can’t do it anymore and I’m failing at everything. Like, you’re kind of good at a bunch of stuff but not really good at anything.”

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Reese Witherspoon on her husband, Jim Toth: “He’s wonderful,” she says, beaming. “He’s just a really great guy, and I feel really lucky. It’s so cute: Over the holidays I was at a department store in L.A. with my friends, and these three women from Oklahoma came up to me, and they said”—she lays on a thick Southern drawl—“ ‘Reese. We are so happy for yeeew. We liiike this guy for yeeew.’ And I said, ‘You do?!’ ‘Yes, ma’am. We think he is a niiice man. We think he is going to treat you well and be good to yeeew.’ I was like, ‘Really?’ So sweet! And I told them my mother likes him very much, too. I have had my share of heartbreak. But I think your friends really know when you are at your happiest. Even though I am nervous and excited and all those things people feel when they are about to get married, I think I am mostly very calm right now. Usually, I’m a little bit of a squirrel. I have a squirrelly energy.”

Reese Witherspoon on preparing for Water For Elephants: “About three months before the movie started, I went to circus school,” she says, “doing trapeze and acrobatics with Cirque du Soleil performers. A lot of it is flexibility and learning to bend your body backward. I had been a gymnast when I was little, so getting that flexibility back was really fun.” Then she went to a ranch to train with Tai [the elephant]; she was slightly nervous the first day. “She could crush you with her jaw, but she knows the exact right amount of pressure with which to pick you up but not hurt you. It’s really incredible. I trust her more than any other animal I have ever been around.”

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Reese Witherspoon on age issues: “I’ve had some really kind of sad moments lately. You don’t go backward! And I think 35 for a woman is a big thing. I remember when I was a little girl looking up at my mother at 35 doing her hair in the mirror, and I thought, my mother has never been more beautiful. She had years of wisdom you can’t erase. And now I feel the same way when I look in the mirror. You can’t pretend you are an ingenue. You can’t pretend you are wide-eyed and innocent. It’s on your face! It’s in your body. It’s in your voice. It’s in your reactions to things when people say, ‘I just did the most morally corrupt thing I’ve done in my life’ and you literally don’t blink.” She laughs. “You’ve either done it yourself or you know someone who has.”

Reese Witherspoon on being a parent (Reese raises two children – Ava, 11, and Deacon, 7): ‘[Ava] is on the precipice of having her love affairs and her life,’ she says. ‘She is curious and artistic and very smart. She really surprises me. I thought you make little people in your image. But they are just nothing like me or their father. They are their own individuals. I know it’s corny, but being a parent to me is such a great privilege; that I get to chaperone these beautiful little souls through life. They astound me with their knowledge and their humour.’

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