Reese Witherspoon He gets emotional around the holiday season.
In a recent interview with the peopleThe 48-year-old actress spoke about her family's Christmas holiday traditions and some of her favorite memories over the years, including the gifts she received.
“I was obsessed with Teddy Ruxpin,” she said of her favorite Christmas gift she ever received. “My dad found the last one in a store, and I played with it every day. It was basically a big tape player, so I put all my music in it. I just loved it.”
The actress and businesswoman explores the idea of the perfect Christmas present in her new children's book, “Busy Betty & the Perfect Christmas Present,” which she said she was inspired to write after her 12-year-old son, Tennessee, expressed that he didn't want one. I don't know what to get anyone for Christmas.
The best Christmas gift Witherspoon ever received was Teddy Ruxpin when she was a child. (Photo by TheStewartofNY/WireImage)
Reese Witherspoon 'found' her voice as a single mother: 'No one is coming to help'
Witherspoon, who is also a mother of two older children, Ava, 25, and Deacon, 21She explained that she hopes the book “reinforces that homemade gifts are the best” and that people will appreciate the idea behind the gift.
“When one of my children was little, they gave me a jar filled with very specific memories and compliments,” she said. “It's everything from 'I love when you hug me after school' to 'I love when we sing this song in the car.' To this day it makes me want to cry.”
“My dad found the last one in a store, and I played with it every day. It was basically a big tape player, so I put all my music in it. I just loved it.”
On another occasion, one of her children gave her five letters that she was told to “open at different times,” describing them as a “beautiful, wonderful gift.”
After becoming a mother, Witherspoon began doing everything she could to make Christmas a special time for her children by creating their own traditions, including “decorating the porch with poinsettias and ribbons and garlands,” sledding and making gingerbread houses together. .
Witherspoon has a lot of Christmas traditions with her three children. (Getty Images)
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“We use a toolkit,” Witherspoon explains. “When I was a 'do whatever Martha Stewart says' woman, I tried to build my own house and it was an epic disaster. My architecture wasn't up to par. It just fell apart.”
The “Legally Blonde” star shares her two older children with her ex-husband. Ryan Phillippeand her younger son with her ex-husband, Jim Toth.
At a panel discussion for her production company Hello Sunshine's annual Shine Away event with fellow actors Laura Dern and Octavia Spencer, Witherspoon shared that being a single mother with two children at such a young age helped her find her voice.
“There comes a moment in our lives when we realize there is no waiting, no one will come to help, no one will come to make this decision,” she said. “For me, I have to make this decision. I've faced a lot of these decisions. Being a single mother when I was in my late 20s, I had to make a lot of decisions about my child and a lot of financial decisions, too.”
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Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth announced their divorce last March after nearly 12 years of marriage. (Michael Kovach)
She married Philip in June 1999 when she was 23, and the couple finalized their divorce in 2007 when she was 27. She married CAA talent agent Jim Toth in 2011, and they later announced their separation in March 2023. After 11 years of marriage.
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