Reese Witherspoon is getting candid about what it’s been like being a working mom in Hollywood.
The 49-year-old Oscar winner shared pics of herself and her three kids over the years Aug. 14 on Instagram.
“Someone asked me what raising three kids and building a career in Hollywood looked like…” she wrote in text over her first photo, which showed her posing with daughter Ava Phillippe, 25, and son Deacon Phillippe, 21, whom she shares with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe, as well as her younger son, Tennessee Toth, 12, whom she shares with ex-husband Jim Toth.
“It looked like spending a lot of time in trailers together,” she wrote on a cute selfie of her sitting next to Tennessee.
“It looked like always being on the road together,” she continued, writing on a throwback snap of her and her two older children riding in the backseat of a car together.
“It looked like my kids constantly giving me career advice!” she joked over an image of a text from her older son informing her she’d accidentally “butt-dialed” an Instagram Live session.
The “Legally Blonde” franchise star went on to say that balancing motherhood and her career has “looked really hard sometimes.”
“I’d cry working 14 to 17 hours, sometimes all night long and still woke up early for carpool. I was deliriously tired,” she wrote, adding, “It looked like trying to say something positive about work when I got home at night. So my kids would know that my work was meaningful to me and could be fun!”
A photo showing her dressed in a police officer uniform while posing on set next to Tennessee accompanied the latter message.
Witherspoon concluded by saying even though it’s been “challenging” at times, being a working mom in Hollywood has given her perspective about “what was important in life.”
“Nothing was better than getting to come home and hug them and hear about their day!” she wrote on a throwback pic of her and her daughter.
Witherspoon captioned her post, “Grateful to stand alongside other moms in this beautiful, messy journey,” adding, “Tag the working mom who needs this.”
