Reese Witherspoon has no regrets about her first marriage to Ryan Phillippe.
The “Big Little Lies” star, now 41, tied the knot with her “Cruel Intentions” co-star when she was just 23 years old. While discussing her new movie, “Home Again,” Witherspoon compared her onscreen character to her real life.
“It’s about that next chapter in your life. What do you do when you get to 40 and you’ve made a decision when you were 25 to get married and have kids?” she said on ITV morning show “Lorraine.” “I got married when I was 23 and I had two kids by the time I was 27.”
Witherspoon and Phillippe divorced in 2007. They share two kids together, Ava, 18, and Deacon, 13.
In hindsight, Witherspoon admitted 23 might have been a bit young to get married. “I don’t know, sometimes it’s good to know yourself [first],” she said before clarifying, “I would never change anything.”
But for their daughter, Ava, Witherspoon had some advice: “I’ve said to my daughter, ‘I think you know, at 25 you start to know yourself a little bit better.'”
Witherspoon is now married to Jim Toth, with whom she shares 5-year-old son Tennessee.
Phillippe has most recently been in the news for an ex-girlfriend suing him over claims he physically assaulted her in a drunken rage.