Why Reese Witherspoon regrets doing these movies
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- Thursday, 8 Jun 2017, 1:54PM
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Reese Witherspoon regrets doing a movie every time she was pregnant.
The Big Little Lies star - who has Ava, 17, and Deacon, 13, with her ex-husband Ryan Phillippe and four-year-old Tennessee with her spouse Jim Toth - didn't stop work when she was pregnant and wishes she had just "let herself be pregnant" rather than try to balance her career and her home life.
She said: "I did a movie every time I was pregnant, and I wish that I hadn't. I just wish I'd just let myself be pregnant."
Reese was pregnant during the filming of Vanity Fair, among other movies.
Speaking at an actress' roundtable for The Hollywood Reporter, Jessica Lange added: "Yeah, just be pregnant, be home with the kids, don't have something that you have to get up at 5 a.m. for. Those are the regrets, not the ones that you said no to but the ones you said yes to."
Meanwhile, the 41-year-old actress previously insisted that "women have to prove themselves twice as hard" in Hollywood than men do.
She fumed: "I finally had my three hits. Finally, I feel like the story had changed. I am a producer ... Women have to prove themselves twice as hard [and it takes] twice as long.
"A guy has one hit and they say he's going to win an Oscar. A guy has one movie at Sundance and he gets Jurassic Park. A woman has a hit at Sundance and she has to make six more movies."
However, Reese feels "very grateful" for her 20-year acting career.
Captioning a picture of herself from the 1990s, she wrote: "This was taken in 1996, when I just started working in movies. It was one of my very first photo shoots ... I was beyond excited to have the chance to work in film.
"20 years later, I still am. I love being an actor, travelling the world, and learning about other people's lives. Feeling very grateful for my amazing job! #TBT #90sFashion (sic)"
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