'My kindergarten teacher — she was my PE teacher Patty Wright, who's still at my school...She called my mom and said, 'Your daughter's an actress.''
It's unclear whether Reese Witherspoon's career as an actor was written in the stars, but it was certainly forecasted early on.that it was an early educator who recognized she would be an actor.
"My kindergarten teacher — she was my PE teacher Patty Wright, who's still at my school...She called my mom and said, 'Your daughter's an actress'," Witherspoon, 46, said."My mom was like, 'What are you talking about? I'm a nurse, her dad's a doctor. What are you talking about?'""She said, 'She will not stop singing Dolly Parton songs to all the kindergarteners and they are not listening.
As Witherspoon worked her way to the top, she realized many of the parts for women"weren't good enough" and wanted that to change. "I really think that when I was seeing a problem for me and lack of opportunities for me, I realized that was across the board for all of my actress friends," Witherspoon said, explaining that is why she her launched her media brand"Hello Sunshine"."You just see a wider range of the female experience when women are the authors of their own stories," Witherspoon said.Kait Hanson is a lifestyle reporter for TODAY.com.
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