Saturday, November 03, 2007
Reese Witherspoon Beats the Odds
Part of being a celebrity is helping those less fortunate with your time, talent, and pocketbook. And Reese Witherspoon is making a difference for The Children’s Defense Fund.
The “Legally Blonde” actress showed up at Thursday’s Beat the Odds Awards at the Beverly Hills Hotel. As it turns out, Reese has quite a history with the CDF.
Back in college, she picked up a copy of “The Measure of Our Success,” a novel published by the Children’s Defense Fund. And when she was struggling to find a job in between filming “Election” and “Legally Blonde,” she revisited the book for inspiration.
She told press, “(During that time) I was going though a little bit of a rough patch. It was before Legally Blonde, and I was having a hard time getting a job. There were all these questions about my weight, and I was asking myself, ‘Why am I an actress? What is life about?’ So I started reading the book again, and I called the Children’s Defense Fund to see if I could help.”
And she’s been helping them ever since, with both financial gifts and lending her celebrity to their cause.
Enjoy the pictures of Reese at the Beat the Odds event on Thursday night (November 1).
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