Ordinarily, I would use the magazine cover for the header image, but after one look at this ^ photo from Reese Witherspoon’s Harper’s Bazaar editorial, I was like, “Oh, that one is going up top.” I can’t believe Reese agreed to wear that and pose like that. It looks like Gone With the Wind puked on her. It looks like Blake Lively’s Allure of Antebellum is finally coming to fruition. Of course, I don’t have total hate for this editorial – Bazaar did make Reese hold a piglet for one photo, and I will always love a piglet theme. Anyway, you can read Reese’s profile here. Here are some highlights from the interview:
Her view on life now versus her 20s: “I’m much more open now. In my 20s, I was scared of everything. I didn’t know what my career was. I didn’t know why people liked my movies. I was wary of interacting with people. I was 25 when ‘Legally Blonde’ came out, 26 for ‘Sweet Home Alabama’, and 29 for ‘Walk the Line’. And I was scared, really scared. Now I feel like a different person. It’s a great thing getting older. You are who you are; you say what you mean.”
On what she thinks about for casting female roles: “I certainly can’t star in all these movies. I want to get a female perspective on film that would make my daughter understand what it means to be a woman in a different way.”
Her production company has 30 projects in development: “We’re reading constantly. My brain hurts sometimes. Sometimes I’ve been reading and watching movies for seven days, and I need a break.”
Why she launched Draper James: “Well, it comes from a lot of the same instincts about making movies. I saw an empty space. All these women in the South, they read fashion magazines, but nobody was telling the stories about their upbringing—their mothers, their grandmothers who love getting dressed up. It’s a feminine culture.”
On what she likes to do when she’s at home “relaxing”: “My husband would definitely say, ‘She’s very relaxed at home.’ Hmm, I don’t cook much. I used to cook a lot; I relax a lot. You know what I like to do? Reorganize bookshelves and my sock drawer. [My husband] Jim’s like, ‘What have you been doing for four hours in your closet?’ I’m like, ‘Um, reorganizing my underwear?’”
Honestly, the only thing that made me roll my eyes was the bit about Draper James – “I saw an empty space.” Really? Reese launched Draper James after Goop, after Jessica Alba’s Honest Company, after Blake Lively announced that she would be doing Preserve (which failed). Reese was not a trendsetter, she was a trend follower when she launched Draper James. I realize that her “spin” on lifestyle branding was different – “SOUTHERN, Y’ALL!” – but the fact that she moved into clothing/lifestyle was not some brand new thing for actresses.
Also: I totally get her about reorganizing the underwear drawer. I was trying to quickly reorganize mine a few days ago and I had to stop because I was like, “OMG, this is going to be a much more intensive process than I originally considered.” Like, it’s probably going to take me more than an hour to reorganize it. And now I have a stack of about twenty panties sitting on the bookshelf in my bedroom. Sigh… I never should have started!
Photos courtesy of Alexi Lubomirski/Harper’s Bazaar.
Wow, she sounds like a really fun gal!! 😮
Ha! She seems like such a pill to be around when she’s her normal sober Type A self, and then get a little booze in her and she becomes an entirely different kind of not fun. Mean drunk fun.
She must have half of Macy’s in her underwear drawer to need 4 flipping hours to straighten it.
Yes! An entire lingerie department might take 4 hours to straighten.
She’s definitely a type A person.
On a side note, I’d rather have her organize her panty draw then acting like a drunk ahole.
😂
What does her housekeeper do all day if she needs to spend four hours on her grot drawer?
Some persons who are worried like to reorganize even if it is well tidied up
Yes. A compulsion of sorts. I like things neat and organized or my stress levels start to go up, especially if something actually stressful is happening in my life.
I’m one of those! When I’m stressed/worried/anxious/angry I organize or clean. When I’m feeling like I don’t have any control over my life or my emotions organizing gives me a feeling like at least I have control of SOMETHING. Not to mention that with 3 small children (and a husband who can’t find anything that’s not right under his nose) having an organized house is a necessity! I’ve never spent four hours just on undies (I don’t think she was actually being literal) but some projects can take me a long time because I’ll do it one way, then try another way, then tweak it until I have it JUST RIGHT.
@Kat: Raises her kids and hides her Vodka when the doorbell rings….
That dress! It looks like 1980s prom married to GWTW. My mother nor grandmothers would have ever worn something like that.
She must be trying to create a fantasy for upper crust Southern belles, if any are still in existence.
I think it’s a dying breed, but I’m not upper crust and, although Southern, I’ve never been a belle, so what do I know.
I can’t rag on her too much. I color coordinate my closet, my daughters as well. They can call me OCD all they want, but it makes sense to me, looks pretty too. The underwear have their own little drawer and don’t get too much attention in the organizational department.
I don’t know about Southern pride. All it conjures up for me are racist organizations and people who are secretly racist.
I’ve been doing the Marie Kondo method from the book, “the life changing magic of tidying up.” It makes me happy. It works great for my toddler’s pants. I can open the drawer and see every single pair she owns and pull out what I need without messing anything up.
I tried it and it works well for socks, but it didn’t work for my sweaters — saved space and they were all visible, but they were terribly wrinkled. Maybe due to mixed/soft fabrics. Maybe due to my inability to “feel” where they wanted to be folded. : )
Most tempted by what she says about getting rid of papers: Throw them all out. Tell it to the IRS.
Gah, my sweaters…every time I take one out, I ruin the pile and they are always a mess. Fascinating, I know.
Roll them up instead, it’s worked for me.
Yep to the organising, I’ve found myself in the early stages of nesting and all I want to do is sort shit out and I find myself falling down a rabbit hole after starting what I thought was a relatively simple job, then getting bored and distracted by something shiny…. or food, … or one of my cats, or a nap
I dont have near enough undies to warrant 4 hours though, yikes…
That was my thought about the undies. I would have to really slow to stretch that into four hours.
I work with a colleague who is crazy of reorganize.When she is worried,she reorganizes .I like to work with her because with her,the work is made
I don’t understand the pic with the pig .Is it her pig?
I should drink another cup of coffee, i thought it was a dog.
She is holding a pig! And I spend time reorganizing my drawers…… KonMarie!
Pretty sure she doesn’t mean that it literally takes her 4 hours to organize her underwear, just that she spends a lot of time organizing things in general. BTW…love the blue dress she’s wearing. So fresh and adorable.
+1 regarding the organization.
I LOVE the header picture!! I just wish they would’ve used different shoes. I don’t like those giant platforms. I’m sure she’s just exaggerating about 4 hours to reorganize her underwear drawer. Geez, can nobody take a joke?
I, too, loathe those stripper platforms. They have literally nothing to do with that gauzy dress, and they look like hooves with ankle straps.
Totally agree!! They are awful, with anything!! Maybe they didn’t want to hem the dress.
“You are who you are; you say what you mean.” Lol, yup. Says the American Citizen Reese.
I didn’t used to mind her but my dislike for her seems to be growing. I do like the piglet shot, though.
I’ve always found her kind of insufferable, but harmless, until that little roadside flip out in Atlanta. As a celebrity she’s “don’t you know who I am?!” Which in real life translates to the person who says “I want to speak with a manager!” cause they can’t get a lunch special after 5- yes, that person. Now she just induces snorts and eyes rolls- she’s become over the top saccharine sweet in her PR.
Goodness! How much underwear do you all own? I recently cleaned out my closet and drawers entirely in under four hours. Whew! Lol!
She and Madonna are beginning to look like each other.
Even if I weren’t a single mom who worked full-time, I wouldn’t spend four hours organizing an underwear drawer. Or any drawer. Another celeb with more time on her hands than brains in her head.
Her husband shakes his head and says who reorganizes their underwear drawer for four hours. Reese looks him square in the eye and asks Do You Know Who I Am? Yeah chick has a seven day pack in every color.
I love the pink dress, she looks great!!
My entire underwear collection is two $7.99 4-packs of Hanes Her Way cotton panties and 3 $15 GapBody bras. Must “organize” this somehow.
HA – I always have 21 pairs of panties on hand. I weed out the old ones now and then. I used to travel on business for 3 weeks at a time, so I acquired the 21 plus pairs. I wear only black or nude with a couple of white. Same with bras. Works for me. Drawer organization consists of black on the left, beige/white in the middle and bras on the right.
I somehow missed the pig on my first glance. I now notice it but where did her left arm go? Is it photoshopped out? It looks like the pig is attached to her side.
The comment about identifying a space for Draper James is such nonsense! Women in the South have tons of options for feminine clothes already, and they are not clamoring for clothes that tell stories about their specific upbringing. ?? Good for her for diversifying since she realized the roles were going to dry up in the coming years (as they do for all actresses), but don’t act like this was a niche no one was filling!
Who the hell organizes their underwear drawer? One of the few joys I have on laundry day is being able to grab handfuls of chonies and jam them into their drawer. Easy peasy.