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Reese Witherspoonis looking back at a moment in her illustrious career that left her in tears.
While appearing on thelatest episodeof theWe Are Supported Bypodcast, the 45-year-old actress chatted withKristen Belland Monica Padman about her reaction to a caricature of herself, which she deemed as “offensive.”
Elsewhere in the graphic, Lively, 34, was seen stirring food in a bowl as Paltrow, 48, held a cake. Alba, 40, meanwhile, posed with an iron while Conrad, 35, carried a bucket of cleaning supplies.
The article described the five women pictured — who had each launched new business ventures at the time — as “peddling the ephemera of their domestic bliss.”
“I think it was 2015. I had started a clothing business. Gwyneth was really growing Goop. Blake Lively had a business,Jessica Albahad a business,” Witherspoon recalled in the podcast interview. “And they did a caricature cartoon of all of us.”
“We were in ball gowns, and they stuck our heads on,” she added. “And Jessica was holding an iron, and I was holding a vacuum cleaner. The whole thing was so offensive that I burst into tears.”
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As Bell, 41, responded, “Gross! Whose grandpa drew that?” Witherspoon explained that TIME later apologized for the image.
“It was in a massive publication, and I’ve since been in that publication, and they said sorry, but I’m not even talking about 10 years ago,” she explained. “I’m talking about 2015 when we decided we’re going to be entrepreneurial, we were going to do something, take a swing, invest our own money, our own time, our reputation and try and do something that George Clooney has done, Robert De Niro has done, and getting lampooned for it.”
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Continuing her candid conversation on theWe Are Supported Bypodcast, Witherspoon commented on how women are often faced with “staying in their lane” when they look to expand their careers or change their industry paths.
“That message to little girls is if you’ve had success in one area, you can’t have success in another,” the mother of three said. “I just think it’s so limiting. Media can be so punishing.”
source: people.com
