Reese Witherspoon is learning to relax nowadays, but she says the rise to her success as an Oscar-winning actress was thanks in part to one complicated motivator: anxiety.

“I was probably successful because I had so much anxiety. They go hand in hand,” she just told Harper’s Bazaar UK .

The Legally Blonde star started her career at a young age—appearing in commercials from just 7 years old—and hasn’t stopped working since. Witherspoon also founded her own media company Hello Sunshine , which in 2021 sold for $900 million to two former Disney execs (though she still oversees operations and remains on the company’s board).

To date, she has reportedly amassed an estimated net worth of at least $440 million . But now, the 49-year-old star has candidly admitted her journey to

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