Parenting struggles. Reese Witherspoon opened up about the realities of new motherhood after her daughter Ava Phillippe was born in September 1999.“I did not have a lot of support with my first baby and I learned really early, like, this is not going to work,” the Home Again star, 45, explained on the “We Are Supported By” podcast on Friday, August 27. “I tried to muscle through for five months with Ava, just not sleeping and I became delirious.”During the conversation with cohosts Kristen Bell and Monica Padman, the Legally Blonde actress explained that she “couldn’t have worked” while Ava, now 21, was only a few months old.“I was lucky enough to have money saved and I didn’t have to work, but it’s just not a one-person job,” Witherspoon
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