The actress, who will turn 50 on March 22, revealed in a new interview with Harper’s Bazaar<\/a>, published on Sunday, Nov. 2, that she will celebrate the milestone birthday in a special way.<\/p>\n Witherspoon and her 13-year-old child, Tennessee<\/a> \u2014 whom she shares with ex-husband Jim Toth<\/a> \u2014 are taking a mother-son trip to Europe together.<\/p>\n “It\u2019s just me and him \u2014 I\u2019m excited about it! I\u2019m off to visit friends in Italy, kind of tootling around a little bit,” she told the outlet.<\/p>\n As for how she feels about entering a new decade, the Big Little Lies star said she’s embracing the moment.<\/p>\n “I like getting older,” she reflected. “I think it\u2019s great to be wiser and understand your place in a business. I\u2019ve worked really hard to get to that place\u2026 I feel like I\u2019m living my purpose, for sure. I love my job. I love my fans. I\u2019m the captain of my own destiny.”<\/p>\n Reese Witherspoon\/Instagram<\/p>\n Reese Witherspoon with kids Ava, Tennessee and Deacon<\/p>\n During her conversation with Harper’s Bazaar, Witherspoon also opened up about the experience of being a young mom and struggling with depression after the 1999 birth of her daughter Ava Phillippe<\/a>, 26, whom she shares with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe<\/a>, along with son Deacon Phillippe<\/a>, 22.<\/p>\n “It was really bad,” she recalled. “In the first six months, I was simultaneously happy and depressed. I just cried all the time, I was up all night, I was exhausted. It was a hormone drop I didn\u2019t expect, which I experienced right after birth and again when I stopped nursing six months later.”<\/p>\n “Everyone has an opinion,” she continued. “It\u2019s hard being a young mom and having people tell you how to be, how to react, how to give birth, how to nurse and how to feed your baby. It\u2019s inundating.”<\/p>\n Reese Witherspoon\/Instagram<\/p>\n Reese Witherspoon and son Tennessee<\/p>\n In an appearance on The Interview<\/a> podcast on Sept. 20, Witherspoon spoke about how her parenting approach changed<\/a> with son Tennessee. She said she does things a bit differently this time around because she’s “exhausted” from parenting for more than 25 years.<\/p>\n \u201cI’m completely wrung-out and tired,” she said.<\/p>\n Witherspoon explained that sometimes this exhaustion manifests in her redirecting Tennessee to his older siblings.<\/p>\n![\"Reese](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/776fa6a4015b5f0ca0dfbae469476818.jpeg\"\/)
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