She’s an Oscar-winning actress and one of Hollywood’s hottest stars — but even Reese Witherspoon’s children, 9-year-old daughter Ava & 6-year-old-son Deacon, are surprisingly “embarrassed” of their uber-famous mom.

“My children are embarrassed at me all the time. They’re like ‘mom you’re being really stupid’,”Witherspoon told us in a recent interview. “When ‘Monsters vs. Aliens’ came out Ava told me I’m the coolest mom in the third grade. I said ‘can you put it on a piece of paper and sign it for me please’. I was cool once.”

And as cool and yet hot as the majority of men (and women) think Witherspoon is, she won’t be baring too much for the lights and camera.

“I had my first baby when I was 23, so for me, no. I’ve always been choosing roles knowing that I have a daughter and I have a responsibility to her and to the world to be representing women of strength,” the 33-year-old added. “These are the women I know in life. I think it’s a natural extension of parenthood for you to feel like you’re responsible for the worlds you create, whether they be silly or serious. I think you are responsible for the art you put in the world.”

While these are certainly inspiring words of wisdom, don’t be fooled — this mama was more than happy to embrace her childhood habits while lending her voice to “Monsters vs. Aliens”.

“It’s definitely not hard. It’s like you go in and it’s about how imaginative you can be. For me, that’s just a fantastic opportunity to be free and act like a 5-year-old,” Witherspoon added. “We just go in the sound booth and be silly and eat candy and drink caffeine and bounce off the walls. The older I get the more I regress. I really have just become very silly.”

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Reese Witherspoon is renowned for being one of the most modest actresses in Hollywood with her refusal to go naked on screen.

So it was somewhat of a surprise to see the usually covered-up actress stripping down to a bikini at a music festival over the weekend.

The Oscar winner and boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal were just two of the dozens of celebrities who attended the three-day Coachella Festival in Indio, California.

During the festival, the couple checked out sets by Paul McCartney, Morrissey and Jenny Lewis, among others.

Blending in to the rest of the audience, Reese dressed down in a denim dress, fedora hat and flip-flops while Jake opted for a hoodie and jeans.

As the weather got warmer over the weekend, Reese decided to catch some rays in her white and yellow stripy bikini.

The actress sipped on a Pina Colada cocktail as she chatted to Jake on a sun lounger at their hotel.

The actress is known for her preference of covering up and has vowed to do so in all her movies.

She said last year: ‘If actresses take their clothes off, they objectify themselves. I am flabbergasted by how many legitimate actresses do it.’

A few hours after her sunbathing session, Reese found herself getting cold after sunset as she cuddled up to Jake as they watched Jenny Lewis’s set.

Reese, 33, took time out of training for her new movie to enjoy a fun weekend away with Jake, 28.

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So, Reese Witherspoon hasn’t exactly opened up to the media about her life – her heartbreak, her struggles, her relationship with Jake. As ELLE’s April cover girl, she breaks with tradition by speaking openly and honestly about how divorce affected her, her Type A personality, and what’s it like to be a tabloid staple.

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.”

On her reported Type A personality: “I think I’m just fearful. I operate from a lot of fear, like, of things being lost or forgotten or neglected. Losing the spiritual rather than the physical. It’s so funny to me that somehow I’ve been portrayed as a very, like, closed-off or uptight person. I’m very open.”

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.”

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As the holidays approach, Reese Witherspoon faces a dilemma familiar to countless divorced parents – how to share custody of her young children on those special days.

“I think the most important thing is to be a grownup,” she says, “and not let any kind of feelings affect how you deal with your children.”

For the mother-of-two – who finalized her divorce from Ryan Phillippe in June – that means having “a lot of communication” with her ex-husband and “just being very open.”

“I’m very lucky in that we raise our kids to just be happy,” the actress, 32, said Sunday in Beverly Hills while promoting her film Four Christmases – a comedy that focuses on the challenges of blended families. “I think the most important thing is the children. What do they want, what makes them feel comfortable?”

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In the film, Witherspoon plays the daughter of divorced parents who, at first, lacks any parenting skills. Could Witherspoon relate?

“When I first held my baby, Ava, [that] was the first time I’d ever held a baby in my life,” she said. “So I understand that sort of fear or not being a good mom. It took me a long time to feel really comfortable in the role of being a mother.” (In addition to Ava, now 9, Witherspoon and Phillippe also have a son, Deacon, 5.)

As for marriage, “I [had] a certain idea what I thought marriage gives,” says the actress – who’s now dating Jake Gyllenhaal, 27. But “sometimes it doesn’t work out that way so you have to be open to whatever comes your way in life. … Love and relationships take all kinds of shapes and it’s not necessarily the ones you recognize.”

So, would she ever get married again? “I don’t know,” she says, laughing. “I don’t think about it much.”

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Reps for Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal are denying tabloid reports that the couple are engaged.

“They are not engaged, getting married or any of the reports,” the reps tell PEOPLE exclusively, calling the reports “lies.”

Witherspoon, 32 and Gyllenhaal, 27, began quietly dating in April 2007. They recently were seen together in Paris with Witherspoon’s kids.

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Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal are on a path to the altar.

Us Weekly reports in its latest issue, on newsstands now, that Gyllenhaal has quietly moved into Witherspoon’s $5 million L.A. home and is already part of her fiercely guarded family.

The actor, 27, is even helping to raise her two kids – Ava, 8, and Deacon, 4 – from her former marriage to Ryan Phillippe.

“Marriage is definitely what they are working toward,” a source close to the actress, 32, tells Us of the couple who’ve been together for a year.

“They literally don’t want to spend any time away from each other,” a Witherspoon pal adds.

Find out the full scoop on their relationship including the romantic fantasy Jake told Reese, their dogs’ matching outfits and the extraordinarily normal ways they spend their days – plus the latest on Ryan and girlfriend Abbie Cornish – in the new issue of Us Weekly, available now.

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Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe finalized their divorce on Thursday, Extra reports.

Details weren’t immediately available.

According to documents dated June 12, the two — who were seeking shared custody arrangement over children Ava, 8, and Deacon, 4 — “have settled all their remaining issues in these proceedings.”

Witherspoon filed for divorce in 2006, citing irreconcilable differences.

“After the divorce, I was a physical wreck. I wanted to die,” Phillippe told the Autumn-Winter 2007-2008 of U.K. magazine Man About Town. “I was ready to kill myself. I was not taking care of myself at all. I would wake up and cry and vomit.”

Witherspoon is now dating Jake Gyllenhaal.

“He’s a good dude,” Phillippe said of the actor. “I love her, and I want her to be happy, and it seems like she is.”

Phillippe recently stepped out with his Stop-Loss co-star Abbie Cornish, whom he dated after his split with Witherspoon.

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Ben Stiller and Reese Witherspoon are to star in a new comedy from Cameron Crowe, it has been confirmed.

Though no plot details for the as-yet-untitled film have been released, Variety reports that Stiller and Witherspoon have signed up to act in the Almost Famous director’s first film in three years.

As with his work on Vanilla Sky and Elizabethtown, Crowe is to write, produce and direct the film, which is expected to begin shooting in January.

With Columbia Pictures having outbid a reported four other studios for rights to the film, the deal returns Crowe to the production house for the first time since 2000′s Oscar-winning Almost Famous.

He also produced his biggest box office hit, 1996′s Jerry Maguire, with Columbia and worked with studio chief Amy Pascal almost 20 years ago on Say Anything.

Stiller, who will next hit UK screens alongside Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr in period comedy Tropic Thunder, is currently filming Night at the Museum 2: Escape from the Smithsonian – a sequel to his 2006 family hit.

Witherspoon, meanwhile, recently completed production on Four Christmases, during the filming of which she is rumoured to have clashed with co-star Vince Vaughan.

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