Actress Reese Witherspoon says her “Legally Blonde” character Elle Woods has been ousted as the most stylish woman to come to the nation’s capital by first lady Michelle Obama.
Speaking Wednesday at a ceremony where Mrs. Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton presented the annual International Women of Courage awards, Witherspoon jokingly complained that Woods, the bubbly blonde from Los Angeles who discovers her inner strength at Harvard Law School and then takes on Washington politics, no longer held that title.
“As an actress, I have always sought out roles that portrayed women as strong and powerful, such as Elle Woods, who was in the ‘Legally Blonde’ movies,” she said to laughter from the audience in an ornate State Department reception room.
Woods, she said, “happened to be the biggest fashionista who ever came to Washington until Michelle Obama. Thanks a lot.”
Clinton then introduced Mrs. Obama as “stylish,” and the first lady returned the compliment to the entire crowd, saying: “You all look fabulous.”
Witherspoon was at the ceremony as a global ambassador for the Avon Foundation, which supports breast cancer research, anti-domestic violence programs and women’s empowerment projects. On Wednesday the group announced a $500,000 contribution to the State Department’s Fund for Global Women’s Leadership.
Hollywood power couple Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal are heading to splitsville after a two-plus-year romance, reports said Sunday.
A source close to the “Legally Blonde” actress claimed the two have broken up.
People magazine reported the purported split in an item on its Web site that included no further details.
The revelation triggered immediate denials from representatives of the two movie stars.
“It is not true,” Nanci Ryder and Carrie Byalick, who rep Witherspoon and Gyllenhaal, respectively, told People. “They are still together.”
Witherspoon, 33, and Gyllenhaal, 28, reportedly met while starring in the 2007 movie “Rendition.”
Rumors about their romance were confirmed by the summer of 2008, when they were spotted vacationing together in France and Morocco.
“He’s very supportive. Suffice it to say, I’m very happy in life,” Witherspoon told Vogue magazine last fall, referring to the “Brokeback Mountain” star.
As recently as last month, Witherspoon, who won a 2006 Best Actress Academy Award for her role in “Walk The Line,” dished to InStyle magazine about their weekends in a farmhouse outside Los Angeles.
“We have chickens and we grow cucumbers and tomatoes. I love it,” she said.
Witherspoon has two children from a seven-year marriage to actor Ryan Phillippe that ended in 2006.
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Reece Witherspoon revealed a vivid black eye as she stopped to fill up her car at a petrol station yesterday.
The 33-year-old was sporting the angry red bruise on her left eye socket, which looked distinctly painful.
She wore a pair of over-sized sunglasses to cover the bruise, but removed them as she used the garage pump.
Reese wore a pretty blue floral sundress with rope belt for her trip out.
She has just returned to California from Philadelphia, where she has been filming her unnamed new movie with Jack Nicholson, Paul Rudd and Owen Wilson.
She was spotted with boyfriend Jake Gylllenhaal at an Elton John concert in the city earlier this month, where the singer dedicated his song Tiny Dancer to her.
The Walk The Line actress has been dating actor Jake, 28, for more than two years.
She is divorced from actor Ryan Phillipe, with whom she has two children, Ava, nine, and Deacon, five.
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Reese “Trashes” the Oscars!
Reese Witherspoon doesn’t fear box-office bombs!
On today’s Ellen, host Ellen DeGeneres asked the actress if, while watching Sunday’s Academy Awards presentation, she thought, “Ah, who cares about those — I’ve already got one.”
Reese’s laughing response? “The good news is… no matter how many stinky movies you make, they can’t take it away from you!”
(The actress, 31, whose new flick, Penelope, opens tomorrow, won an Oscar in 2006 for her starring role in Walk the Line.)
Reese also revealed a surprising obsession — trash!
“I like to throw a lot of things away. Particularly at Christmas, it makes me a little crazy when the trash is overflowing. So then I put on rubber boots and I literally get into the trash can and I stomp on the trash and [my son] Deacon thinks it’s so great. We call me ‘the mommy trash compactor.’”
To which Ellen quipped, “Then you should make wine.”
“Sometimes I’ll sneak in and look at the neighbor’s garbage cans and see if it’s kind of empty. I’ll wait literally until the middle of the night when the children are asleep and I’ll take my extra garbage and I’ll put it in the can,” Reese continued.
“And at Christmastime I was talking to my brother and I was like, ‘Brother, sometimes I sneak into the garbage and I put it in the other person’s can.’ And he goes, ‘So do I, Sister.’”
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