Reese Witherspoon is sharing a proud mom moment.
In a video posted on her Instagram Stories on Saturday, March 15, the Legally Blonde star told a sweet story about a recent night out with her kids that made her feel good about her parenting journey.
Witherspoon, 48, explained that she was out recently with a friend and her two “boys,” 21-year-old Deacon Phillippe, whom she shares with ex Ryan Phillippe, and 12-year-old Tennessee, whom she shares with ex Jim Toth.
Witherspoon said that over dinner her friend asked her sons if there was one lesson that they will “always remember” that their mom taught them. The Big Little Lies star said that one of them — she didn’t specify who — replied that she would always tell him that if he was given “the choice to be normal or the choice to be weird,” he should always choose weird. And that it’s “okay to stand out and be different.”
With her hand on her chest, Witherspoon gushed that it “filled my heart with the deepest joy that he learned that from me.” She added, “It just meant so much to me that my kids know it’s okay to be different and that it can actually end up being their superpower.”
The producer said she was prompted to tell her followers the story after reposting a slideshow of quotes from White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood that her production company Hello Sunshine shared on its Instagram grid earlier in the week. One of the images featured a quote from an interview the Sex Education actress gave to The Hollywood Reporter last month. Wood told the outlet, “I spent a lot of my life worrying about being weird, and now I’m realizing it could be my superpower.”
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Witherspoon, who also shares her 25-year-old daughter Ava with Phillippe, added in her video that she thinks Wood is “amazing,” along with the rest of the White Lotus cast. “I’m watching, I’m loving it, I’m quoting it,” she said of the dark comedy series.
While her kids might remember the life lessons she taught them, they are less impressed with her acting chops. Witherspoon revealed earlier this year that all three of her children “actively” avoid watching her movies and don’t think she’s all that amusing.
“I literally had my son tell me last night that he did not know I made a living being funny,” she told E! News in January. “He was like, ‘I just didn’t realize. You’re funny at home — sort of.’ “
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