Reese Witherspoon has become a whole new person over the past year. Coincidentally (or not so much), we just passed the one-year anniversary of Reese’s drunken “Do you know who I am?/American Citizen” rant to a Georgia police officer. Reese and her power-player CAA agent husband Jim Toth were both arrested and they both seemed to undergo some radical changes following the incident. For one, Reese all of a sudden seemed much more accessible. She started getting pap’d with her children regularly, and Jim got trotted out for pap sessions too. There were rumors that Jim would go into rehab, but that never did happen. Instead, I think they’ve made an effort to party less, at least publicly, and force a happy-family image down the public’s throat. Reese’s new lifestyle company, Draper James, should be a central part of that, I think. So what about the rest of it?
Reese Witherspoon and her husband Jim Toth are now walking a straight line a year after their shocking arrest, a source close to the couple has revealed to RadarOnline.com.
“Reese and Jim have stabilized their out-of-control home life and are telling friends that their arrest was a huge wake-up call and the best thing that could have happened to their marriage,” the source added.
As Radar previously reported, the Walk The Line Oscar winner crossed the line big time after her husband Toth was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving outside Atlanta in April 2013. Trying to get her agent husband off the hook, Witherspoon then delivered the most hated celebrity line ever to the police officer, screaming, “Do you know who I am?”
The star got arrested for disorderly conduct and obstruction, and both she and Toth were taken to jail. Witherspoon later publicly apologized, saying, “I clearly had one drink too many.” Toth pleaded guilty and was ordered to complete 40 hours of community service, an alcohol-education program, and one year of probation while Witherspoon pleaded no contest and was fined $213.
“Reese lost her good girl image, but Jim also lost a lot of respect and good standing with his work colleagues over the incident,” the source noted. “After some soul-searching, they resolved to change their lives — and are now on a major fitness kick, have cut way back on the booze, and Reese has curbed her spending after finding out she blew $60,000 on clothes in just one year!”
Although the actress isn’t hurting for money, she’s decided to focus on building her small art collection instead, “which is something that helped her bond with Jim early in their relationship. The thing that blew Jim away about Reese is how cultured and educated she is, not her abilities as a glamorous movie star. Reese has got her art bug back again and wants to fill their home with treasures that she and Jim can enjoy and that she can pass on to her kids.”
The source said the Legally Blonde beauty, who has daughter Ava, 14, and son Deacon, 10, from her first marriage to actor Ryan Phillippe and son Tennesse, 17 months, with Toth, 43, “is getting a little tired of trying to look perfect and current every time she steps outside. Jim neither pressures her to be that way nor particularly cares about Reese being a fashion icon. He loves her for her mind. They’re in a much better and solid place now and everyone’s breathing a sigh of relief because it was touch and go for a while there and her drinking WAS getting out of control,” the source said.
Reese has lost weight in the past year. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if she was drinking significantly less, but she’s also been living at the gym – it seems like she gets pap’d going into or coming out of the gym every other day. And if she’s spending less money in general… good for her. The real question (in my mind) is: are these just superficial changes because Reese and Jim messed up so badly and they just wanted to change their image? Or have Reese and Jim really changed their lives? I don’t know. Reese is still hanging out with Chelsea Handler regularly, so I doubt she’s changed that much.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
Oh yes, sooooo remorseful now. *eye roll*
The old saying about how alcohol brings out your true character applies to this woman.
I never bought her act.
Yes. The mask is off for good. Enjoy the money you already made, Reese. People don’t like to pay hard earned movie money to see a person who is really bitch in everyday life.
Her smile gives me the creeps.
+1
I always thought her real personality is probably a lot like the character she played in Election.
Yep. HBO has been playing the movie Election and now I see her in a whole new light when watching that movie. The reason Reece is such a good actress is she plays herself in many of her movies and I would say Election was 100% Reece. Not drinking and suddenly buying art does not change ones character. She is a self-entitled brat who thinks because she was/is a southern white princess the rules don’t apply to her.
I’d like to believe that they’ve changed their lives, she’s really looking great. Then Chelsea Handler’s name popped up and now I want to gag…
Ditto. I’m all about people getting their lives together, since I’ve been desperately trying to do the same. So I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt that they really did learn from the experience.
But Chelsea Handler brings out the rolling eyes everytime. She is a disaster.
Toth published that personally, didn’t he.
Oh well. Good for al the other drivers on the road that these two decided to not get shitfaced away from their home anymore.
“The thing that blew Jim away about Reese is how cultured and educated she is, not her abilities as a glamorous movie star.”
Is Huvane her publicist?
It sound more like bot spam. “The thing that blew Jim away about Reese”.. was that he couldn’t believe she made $ 3000 a week on the computer at home.
She’s curbed her spending by investing in fabulous art pieces and so can YOU.
I just hurt myself trying to keep from busting out laughing.
Her smile in the first photo is going to give me nightmares! It’s sooooo smug and also just plain scary.
Wait, Reese is supposed to be cultured and educated, focusing on her art collection? I thought her message was “I’m just a normal southern girl” she needs to focus and pick one for her lifestyle brand, right?
It depends on how one defines “normal Southern girl”. There is a well established country club set in parts of the South, where they have a season full of balls and charity event parties.
I guess. I thought she was aiming more mainstream tho – not Southern Steamed Goop.
Whatever you are selling, I ain’t buyin’.
Well educated? She dropped out of college early on. She could be self-educated, of course, but that’s not generally what one means when one says someone is “well-educated.”
Goood for them
Oh please. This woman hasn’t made an uncalculated move in a decade. She can no longer justify her high salary and she has gotten little to no attention for her indie work. Hell I’m surprised she didn’t get pregnant this year to go for the full white wash! Really, she just makes me tired.
Exactly. I was about to make the same comment but you said it well so I don’t have to 🙂
No one here in Nashville likes her or her family. Nor were we surprised by the “don’t you know who I am?!” She pulls that crap here too. I’ve been tossed out of a Kheil’s twice – because she and Jessica Simpson wanted to shop (separate times). I no longer shop at Kheils.
Drives me crazy when people try to speak for an entire city or country. What you really mean is that you and your friends don’t like her. That’s a reasonable opinion. Speaking for the entire city is ridiculous.
Do they really kick other customers out of a store when some self-entitled celeb wants to shop there? I don’t think they’d get away with such behaviour here, but then I don’t think they’d be recognized around here either.
Witchspoon parading the kids for PR again. Yuck, she is literally posing for the paps with her son.
I don’t like her. But I’m not going to hate on her/husband for getting a DUI. It happens to plenty of otherwise good people. Let’s hope they use a driver in the future.
I know that Reese is a multi-millionaire, but the exclamation point ending the sentence about her spending $60,000 on clothing in a year is killing me. Also, WTF is she spending $60K on? ALL of her clothes (or should I say the clothing she makes the effort to be photographed wearing) look the same.
Totally! LOL
The best money Witherspoon spent in the last year…. was obviously for the crisis PR team. I never seen so much PR, go into rehabbing a DUI/disorderly arrest. Though I am surprise that she did not force that husband into rehab. So she could get a People’s cover story out of it.
When you realize it all happen on the cusp of starting that whole new venture into Goop-land, of being a life style brand. Only to get arrested showing off her true personality. I bet it cost her a staggering amount of cash, to be a brand new Reece!
I remember when her husband said “I had nothing to do with that”. Even he knows his wife can suck a lemon. I’m surprised they’re still together.
Bangs don’t suit her. Anyway I don’t believe this, it’s just a pr move and seriously, that lifestyle blog… I think it’ll be a huge goop-flop. I mean, who cares about super overpriced, but normal, items suggested by Reese Witherspoon?
The incident last year only proved that her and Ryan Philiipe were more alike than was lead on. Why people thought that she was better than him is beyond me, he just did not hide it.
I dislike her husband even more, don’t know why…
Maybe its because her husband seems like he would be just as smug as she is!
SHE IS SOOO BORING AND BLAND!