Reese Witherspoon Shares Never-Before-Seen Photos With 3 Kids in Candid Post About Balancing Her Career

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• Reese Witherspoon reflected on being a parent and an actress in Hollywood in a candid post that included a series of never-before-seen family photos.

• “It looked really hard sometimes. I’d cry working 14 to 17 hours, sometimes all night long and still woke up early for carpool. I was deliriously tired,” she wrote candidly.

• Witherspoon is mother to Ava, Deacon, and Tennessee.

Reese Witherspoon is taking a moment to reflect on the ups and downs of motherhood in Hollywood. In a new candid post on Instagram, the Legally Blonde actress opened up about what being a mother in the industry really “looked like.” She wrote her reflections across a series of never-before-seen family photos of her and her three kids, Ava, Deacon, and Tennessee.

“Someone asked me what raising three kids and building a career in Hollywood looked like…” she wrote over the first image, which was a selfie that featured Witherspoon and her three kids smiling into the camera.

The next photo featured Witherspoon in an actor trailer with her son Tennessee grinning as he clambered on the sofa. “It looked like spending a lot of time in trailers together,” she wrote.

Then, she shared an older image of herself in a car with Ava and Deacon. “It looked like always being on the road together,” she wrote.

Then came an screenshot of a hilarious message from her son Deacon that read, “Mom you’ve butt-dialled an Instagram live.” “It looked like my kids constantly giving me career advice!” Witherspoon wrote.

She then got real about the difficulties of pairing Hollywood with parenting. “It looked really hard sometimes,” she wrote. “I’d cry working 14 to 17 hours, sometimes all night long and still woke up early for carpool. I was deliriously tired.”

She then added, “It looked like trying to say something positive about work when I got home at night.”

In the final slide, an image of Witherspoon and a young Ava by a pond, she summed it up: “In conclusion, even though it was challenging at times, having kids gave me perspective about what was important in life. Nothing was better than getting to come home and hug them and hear about their day.”

She captioned the post, “Grateful to stand alongside other moms in this beautiful, messy journey.💕”

Witherspoon welcomed Ava in 1999, Deacon in 2003 with ex Ryan Phillippe, and Tennessee followed in 2012 with ex Jim Toth. Throughout their childhoods, she starred in countless major films, including Legally Blonde 2, Vanity Fair, Walk the Line, Just Like Heaven, Wild, and many more.

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