1. She was calved Laura Jean Reese Witherspoon successful 1976 successful New Orleans. Reese is really her parent Betty's maiden name.

2. She is simply a claimed descendant of John Witherspoon, 1 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, though that assertion has not been verified by the Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence genealogists.

3. Her begetter Dr. John Draper Witherspoon served arsenic a lieutenant successful the United States Army Reserve and, arsenic result, Reese spent 4 years of her puerility surviving successful Wiesbaden, Germany.

4. Growing up a dedicated pupil who loved reading, she earned the nickname "Little Miss Type A" from her parents. She would aboriginal motorboat her ain accumulation institution with a rubric that nodded to the moniker, Type A. In a 2005 illustration with Interview, however, she clarified the rubric choice, saying, "It was really an in-joke with my household due to the fact that astatine [age] 7 I understood analyzable aesculapian terms, specified arsenic the quality betwixt benignant A and benignant B personalities. But I conscionable wished I'd named the institution Dogfood Films oregon Fork oregon something. You transportation that baggage each your life."

5. Her first acting gig came astatine property 7, erstwhile she selected arsenic a exemplary for a florist's commercials. It inspired her to instrumentality acting lessons.

6. In 1991, she attended an unfastened casting telephone for the film The Man successful the Moon, intending to audition arsenic a spot player. Instead, she landed the pb relation of Dani Trant, the 14-year-old miss who falls successful emotion for the archetypal clip with her 17-year-old neighbor. In her debut, she was nominated for Best Young Actress astatine that year's Young Artist Awards.

7. Despite making her acting debut astatine 14, she maintained bully capable grades to get accepted to Stanford University arsenic an English lit major, but she withdrew aft a twelvemonth to prosecute her burgeoning acting career.

8. Reese met her archetypal husband, Ryan Phillippe, erstwhile a communal person brought him on to her 21st birthday enactment successful 1997. As she told People successful 2002, she told him astatine the extremity of the night, "I deliberation you're my present."

9. After filming the cult classical Cruel Intentions, which was released successful 1999, Phillippe projected to his woman successful December 1998 with a homemade breakfast-in-bed repast of waffles with strawberries and cream. They tied the knot successful Charleston, South Carolina connected June 5, 1999. Their girl Ava was calved 3 months later.

10. On September 29, 2001, Witherspoon hosted the precise archetypal occurrence of Saturday Night Live to aerial aft the September 11 violent attacks. "It was a truly hard clip successful New York City," Witherspoon told Katie Couric successful 2015. "But I was truthful arrogant to beryllium determination and beryllium connected signifier with firemen and Paul Simon and Lorne Michaels I deliberation did an unthinkable occupation getting that amusement backmost connected its feet and making America laughter again."

11. When she landed the pb relation successful manager Mira Nair's Vanity Fair, Nair joked that Witherspoon should get large to summation value for the role. The histrion coiled up announcing her 2nd gestation during filming, with cautious costuming needed to assistance conceal her babe bump.

12. Witherspoon and Phillippe's lad Deacon, calved successful October 2003, was named aft erstwhile Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Deacon Phillippe, a comparative of her then-husband's.

13. For her show arsenic June Cash successful Walk the Line, she joined a precise tiny database of actresses who person won the Academy Award, BAFTA, Critics' Choice, Golden Globe and SAG Award for the aforesaid performance.

14. She and Phillippe divided successful 2006 aft 7 years of marriage.

15. Witherspoon decided to go a shaper aft speechmaking a unspeakable publication that her cause sent her way. As she told Chelsea Handler in 2017, "I thought, 'If each histrion successful Hollywood wants this part, I request to commencement making movies due to the fact that this is not worthy women's talent.'"

16. After dating Jake Gyllenhaal, Witherspoon met her CAA endowment cause Jim Toth, astatine a enactment successful aboriginal 2010 wherever helium came to her rescue. "This truly drunk feline was hitting connected me, making specified an idiot of himself, yelling astatine me," she told Elle successful 2012. "He was like, [slurring, scowling, pointing digit successful her face] 'You don't cognize me.' And I was like, 'Yeah, I know. I don't cognize you!' Jim came implicit and said, 'Please excuse my friend. He's conscionable breached up with someone.' Jim was a truly bully friend, pulling him retired of that situation. That's conscionable benignant of who helium is, a truly bully person." They tied the knot astatine her ranch successful Ojai, Calif., successful March 2011 and welcomed their son, Tennessee successful September 2012.

17. In 2013, Witherspoon and Toth were pulled implicit by Atlanta PD arsenic Toth was weaving successful and retired of lanes. As officers were arresting her hubby for DUI, she allegedly became irate and started acting up, supposedly asking the officers, "Do you cognize my name?" When they replied they didn't request to, she allegedly responded with, "You're astir to find retired who I am." She was arrested for disorderly conduct, aboriginal pleading nary contention to obstruction.

"Out of respect for the ongoing ineligible situation, I cannot remark connected everything that is being reported close now. But I bash privation to accidental I intelligibly had 1 portion excessively galore and I americium profoundly embarrassed astir the things I said," she said successful a statement. "It was decidedly a scary concern and I was frightened for my husband, but that was nary excuse. I was disrespectful to the serviceman who was conscionable doing his job. The words I utilized that nighttime decidedly bash not bespeak who I am. I person thing but respect for the constabulary and I americium precise atrocious for my behavior."

18. In a 2002 interrogation with People, Witherspoon admitted to being "obsessed with Tupperware" and said she can't locomotion by a Hold Everything instrumentality store without going in.

19. From 2007 to 2011, Witherspoon served arsenic the announcer of the Playhouse Disney artifact of programming connected the Disney Channel. Her dependable was featured successful promos, bumpers and commercials for the greeting artifact that targets children ages 3-8.

20. In 2013, she appeared connected Michael Bublé's medium To Be Loved, featured connected a screen of the Frank Sinatra and Nancy Sinatra duet, "Somethin' Stupid."

21. When she launched her retail marque Draper James successful 2015, she named it aft her grandparents, Dorothea Draper and William James Witherspoon. The brand, with its absorption connected fashion, accessories and location décor inspired by the American South, opened its archetypal ceramic and mortar store successful the autumn of 2015 successful her hometown of Nashville.

22. Her archetypal book, a manner publication inspired by her confederate upbringing entitled Whiskey successful a Teacup, was released connected September 18, 2018. The person of books besides runs a publication nine connected her Instagram account, wherever she announced a caller proposal each month.

23. She turned down roles successful Scream and Urban Legend, and was considered for the pb successful Romeo + Juliet earlier losing retired to Claire Danes. She besides was forced to discontinue Pixar's Brave due to the fact that she couldn't maestro the Scottish accent required to bring Merida to life.

24. She kept astir of Elle Woods' iconic wardrobe from the Legally Blonde franchise.

25. Witherspoon helped spearhead the Time's Up question by texting and emailing each of her adjacent friends and colleagues successful Hollywood earlier pushing each the women to get successful 1 country and consolidate the conversations into a program of action. She besides recovered the decorator who would make the movement's present iconic logo and pin design, which debuted connected the reddish carpet astatine the 2018 Golden Globes.