Your average person doesn’t get married and then open a highly-anticipated movie a few weeks later, all while posing for the cover of Vogue. But that’s what movie stars are for! Especially movie stars like the beloved Reese Witherspoon. The actress, who wed agent Jim Toth just a few weeks ago, is starring in the new film Water for Elephants with Twilight star Robert Pattinson. She sat down with Vogue to discuss the film and her life as a wife, mom and actress.

Reese Witherspoon & Jim Toth Wedding Photo Album (People Cover)

On juggling her roles as mom and actress:

“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.”

Reese Witherspoon & Jim Toth Ultra Secret Wedding Details

On turning 35:

“I am really going through that right now. 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.”

“Water For Elephants” New Movie Trailer with Robert Pattinson

On losing her privacy:

“I mean, I feel like an ingrate for even thinking anything isn’t good. I’m very, very, very lucky. But . . . umm . . . probably that I parted with my privacy a long time ago. We went different ways. And sometimes I mourn it. Sometimes I will sit in the car and cry. Because I can’t get out. That’s the only thing: I mourn the loss of my privacy.”

She is ultimate all American girl! Read the rest of Reese’s article HERE.

Reese Witherspoon for Vogue Photos

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