Reese Witherspoon is recalling a sweet moment with one of her children — and the lesson they learned from her.
Witherspoon, 48, reposted Hello Sunshine’s quote from The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood via her Instagram Story on Saturday, March 15, which read, “I spent a lot of my life worrying about being weird, and now I’m realizing it could be my superpower.” Witherspoon, for her part, wrote, “I love this!”
In a subsequent Story, Witherspoon elaborated on why the quote from Wood resonated with her.
“I just want to say one thing about that quote from Aimee Lou Wood, who is amazing. I love her on [The] White Lotus. Everybody on [The] White Lotus is amazing. I’m watching, I’m loving it, quoting it,” Witherspoon said. “But we were out to dinner the other night — me and my girlfriend and my two boys — and my girlfriend said, ‘What is one thing that your mom says to you that you always remember?’ And one of them said, ‘She tells me, if I have a choice to be normal or if I have a choice to be weird, I should be weird and it’s OK to stand out and be different.’”
Witherspoon said the moment filled her heart “with the deepest joy” that her son learned that message from her.
“It just meant so much to me that my kids know that it’s OK to be different and that it can actually end up being your superpower,” she said.
Witherspoon is mom to daughter Ava, 25, and son Deacon, 21, whom she welcomed with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe. She also shares son Tennessee, 12, with ex-husband Jim Toth. (Witherspoon and Phillippe, 50, split in 2006 after seven years of marriage while the Big Little Lies actress and Toth, 54, called it quits in March 2023 more than a decade after tying the knot.)
The Morning Show star has shared a close bond with her kids through the years, bringing Deacon as her plus one to the August 2024 premiere of Blink Twice — and meeting up with Ava inside the event. Months later, Witherspoon brought Deacon as her date to the WSJ. Magazine Innovator Awards in October 2024.
While exclusively speaking with Us Weekly at the event, Witherspoon gushed about “the thing that makes [her] happy.” She told Us, “My kids and my company and really it’s having Deacon here tonight. That is so fun for me, and I hope [for] him too!”
