Reese Witherspoon – the distressed-chinned, Oscar-winning lady cowboy actress – didn't get to be America's sweetheart without exploiting American national traits. Traits like suing the tits off anybody she can.
Star magazine recently claimed that Reese Witherspoon was pregnant with her third child. Now, a lot of magazines claim that a lot of famous people are pregnant a lot of the time. And usually the famous people either deny it outright or keep quiet for long enough that the articles end up looking stupid. Not Reese Witherspoon, though. Say she's pregnant and she'll sue your stupid magazine ass all the way to kingdom come.
Reese Witherspoon has something of a soft public image. Perhaps it's because all Reese Witherspoon only ever plays are things like cute singing cowgirls or cute ghost doctors, or perhaps it's because she just looks so darn cute dressed up in her Dunst cast-offs with that husband of hers that used to be famous.
But beneath Reese Withspoon's cute-as-a-shiny-button, constantly-smiling, "how y'all doing?" exterior seems to be a steely, no-nonsense core that enjoys lashing out at magazines wherever possible. Reese has already felt the need to complain about the press reporting that she was in marriage counselling with her husband – even though she told the press that she was in marriage counselling with her husband with her own mouth – and now Reese Witherspoon is getting a bit legally slap-happy with anyone who speculates about the state of her uterus, too.
Yesterday, Reese Witherspoon filed a lawsuit against Star magazine after it published an article claiming that she was pregnant with her third baby, and that she was hiding the pregnancy from the producers of her new film by wearing baggy dresses all the time. And, filed under her full name of Laura Jean Reese Witherspoon, Reese has claimed that this just isn't true, and that Star has damaged her reputation by insinuating that she'd hide a pregnancy from her bosses. She's seeking unspecified general and punitive damages in the lawsuit.
It's understandable, though, that Reese wants to put these apparent false-pregnancy stories to bed. It's an easy mistake to make – people keep thinking that we're pregnant just because we're wearing a lot of baggy dresses at the moment. And we throw up every morning. And we wee a lot. And our boobs hurt.
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Reese Witherspoon sues Star magazine – MSNBC
[story by Stuart Heritage]