Reese Witherspoon On "Fabulous" Jake, "Humiliating" Divorce And Young Motherhood

Reese Witherspoon is ELLE's April cover girl, and inside she breaks with tradition by speaking about her divorce from Ryan Phillippe, boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal and being a young mom.

On her divorce: "Very humiliating and very isolating...But, by the way, if it's not painful, maybe it wasn't the right decision to marry to begin with. Those are the appropriate emotions. When people get in your face and say, 'This will pass,' you think, Are they crazy? I'm never gonna feel any better than I feel right this minute and nothing's ever gonna make sense again. And I still have moments where I'm like, Nothings ever gonna make sense again."

On boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal: "He's fabulous. He really is a fantastic guy."

On being a young mother: "When I first had Ava, I couldn't afford [help]. And it was so hard. I was out in Los Angeles, living [away from my family]. I really didn't have any friends. And I had a baby. No one else who was 22 had a baby. I couldn't go out."

On not being diet obsessed: "I'm made of cookies after the holidays. Everything inside me is made of sugar and flour and a little red wine-a lot of red wine."

More interview snippets here

Comments

[LeftistGuerrilla]

Reese Witherspoon is incredibly beautiful. It should be illegal. If looks were a crime she would be a felon facing life plus 99 years

[progressivelady]

Ryan is a complete idiott for doing what he did to her, and the girl he is with now, the reason why the marriage ended, fail's in comparrison to Reese.

[Ventura48]

Reese is a class act and a cutie as well as is Jake!! I've seen them together a few times in Santa Barbara with her kids. Nice couple.

[mendelcrosses]

Sometimes I kind of think that,these hollywood people deserve all that befalls them. Is there some decree in hollywood that says Famous people MUST marry only another famous person? We know it never works.
Having said that,Reese seem a very grounded and nice person.

[learnsomething]

Please Reese don't turn into Jen Aniston, harping about a long lost marriage, in the press.

I had been bragging on you about how, YOU WERE NOT LIKE ANISTON. Please don't go down that path with Aniston. It is an ugly pathetic path.

[gtr76]

Yes, Jake is "fabulous"­...fabulou­sly gay and everyone knows it. These fake hollywood romances annoy me. He's had a bf for years.

[Skeptiqone]

I'm not saying he is not....but doesn't it seems that they would be then going to extremes. There are pictures of them everywhere. Does he not go anywhere with the guy, then? I used to think he was gay,,,not so sure now.

[Mariposa27]

Have you never heard of bisexuals? You know it no longer means confused, right? It is, after all, possible to date a man or a woman--it doesn't mean that he has to date both at once.

[Rmchairphilo]

Um, why is he gay? Because he played a gay man in a movie? LOL!

[AnneHope]

Why do you think he is gay? Because he played a gay man in a movie? He's also played a cop, a boy who lives in a bubble and a kid breaks off into a Tangent Universe. Widen your perspective.... geez.

[Hobay]

The Elle cover shot makes her look like the missing Olsen triplet.

[Roy49]

I love Reese Witherspoon! She is the sexiest thing on earth!

[SteveStephens]

I would call GETTING MARRIED to Ryan Phillipe in the first place Humiliating and Stupid.

[learnsomething]

Ryan is a nice guy. Why is it people like you want to villainize the man in a break-up? It seems to be common in America to villainze the man.

[ADVOCATE4ZPG]

It's part of the PRINCE/PRINCESS expectation, a kind of comformity to an apocryphal model that NO ONE can achieve....!

[bog]

or maybe it's cuz he's the one that cheated.

[TiffanyHusseinBanned]

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I take that back. I disagree with almost nothing you have said.
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Yikes!

[rzan1]

Let's try it one more time. I agree with almost nothing you have said. There!

[TiffanyHusseinBanned]

Are you sure?

My attacks on JA really get to you, don't they?

Chilax.

[AlliKatt]

Sorry to be slightly off topic. But I work at a talent agency in the biz, and rumors have been flying this afternoon about a naked picture of Johnny Depp that he posed for in the late '80's. Does anyone have any info regarding this? Apparently someone is advertising the photograph on Craigs List in LA. Anyone know anything about this?

[tkondaks]

Uh, Reese, I think that the cookies you pigged out on had a whole lot of butter and/or shortening.

[zenlikejen]

Wow...really? I do believe I've stepped in deeper puddles.

[Aslanspal]

She played that part in "Election" so well , I think it may have been a natural for her.

[SteveStephens]

I was on the crew. she was slightly taken aback when I told her that we did not have metal detectors in our schools in Nebraska at the time. she was pretty nice though. always had lunch with the crew and generally hung out. She was the "straight man" in that film, and did it well, which is why that film is so Goddam funny.

[lisalovesamelie]

And Freeway! Ah, I love that movie. So funny. The courtroom scene is one of my all-time faves of any movie.

[Aslanspal]

Go Big Red!

[MIMom]

[[On being a young mother: "When I first had Ava, I couldn't afford [help]. And it was so hard. I was out in Los Angeles, living [away from my family]. I really didn't have any friends. And I had a baby. No one else who was 22 had a baby. I couldn't go out."]]

Aw.....

Are you freaking kidding me?

[TiffanyHusseinBanned]

That's nice, Ma.

[FemiMommy]

I think what she meant was that she didn't have anything in common with her old friends. Let's cut her some slack!

[liarsclub75]

Ryan Phillippe was way to good for her.

[TiffanyHusseinBanned]

It's "too".

I am not surprised you got that wrong.

[lisalovesamelie]

Yeah, he was so good to her that he cheated on her while he was away, was made public to humiliate her and their kids. Yeah, too good for her. Right.