Reese Witherspoon has squeezed every drop of opportunity into her proverbial glass of fame. She started her movie career at 14 years old and is now a Hollywood power player, driving small-screen hits like "Big Little Lies," "Daisy Jones and the Six," and "The Morning Show" with her production company, Hello Sunshine. And with a net worth in the hundreds of millions, Witherspoon is a clear industry success story. But the multi-hyphenate credits her stratospheric triumphs to poor mental health.

"I was probably successful because I had so much anxiety. They go hand in hand," she told Harper's Bazaar in her November 2025 cover story. "I had pressured myself to extreme levels to show up at work in a perfect way." She alluded to her past struggles with anxiety in a 2021 interview with Trace

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