"I’m getting to do comedy again which I’m really excited about and I just feel very blessed and very lucky.

"The next movie I’m doing is called The Four Christmases with Vince Vaughn and it’s coming out in 2008."

In the meantime, Reese is preparing for her son Deacon’s fourth birthday on October 23.

"We are having an appropriate sized party for a four-year-old and a really fun one," she grinned.

"It’s great because he’s my guy and we get to do really fun things like playing with cars and trucks."

Then of course, there’s Halloween.

"I don’t know what the kids will wear but I’ve been planning my costume," smiled Reese, who also has an eight-year-old daughter, Ava. "I always like to wear a good cheap wig."

Reese opens up about Ryan split - Sept 12 2007
Reese Witherspoon has apparently opened up for the first time about her painful split from ex-hubby Ryan Phillippe.

The actress broke up with Crash star Ryan last October.

"Right around Christmas time I was sitting in a parking lot and I felt like I just couldn’t get out of the car," Reese reportedly told Elle magazine.

"It was like, I can’t get out of the car."

But it seems the 31-year-old found strength in the knowledge that others had gone through the pain of divorce and made it through the other side.

"I thought, okay, more than half of the parking lot has dealt with this," said the star, who has two kids with Ryan.

"Okay, let’s make it a little bigger. Half of this city has dealt with this. Okay, let’s make it a little bigger - half of this country, until I finally got out of the car."

Reese said the incident reminded her of a scene in the film Walk The Line, which saw her win a best actress Oscar.

"There’s this moment where June Carter says, ’I was never aware of how much I was seen’," she said.

"I was very aware of how much I was seen. It was this moment of self-discovery and loss of identity and who was stepping out of the car, you know? Who is that person?"


Reese hailed top Avon lady - Aug 2 2007
Actress Reese Witherspoon has been named as the world’s most glamorous and high-profile Avon Lady.

The Oscar-winning actress, famous for her roles in Legally Blonde and Walk The Line, is the beauty firm’s first "global ambassador".

She will also focus on breast cancer, domestic violence and emergency relief initiatives in her role as honorary chairman of the Avon Foundation, a charity which aims to improve the lives of women and their families.

Mother-of-two Witherspoon, 31, was described as "perfect" for her new role as Avon’s most prominent lady by the beauty firm’s chairman and chief executive, Andrea Jung.

The Hollywood star said she was proud to be joining the "great philanthropic work" that was under way at the firm, and added: "I feel a great responsibility in my own life to give back to society."

She said she was excited and "truly impressed" by how Avon "has been able to effect real change in the communities in which it does business, and by how committed the company is to providing economic and personal fulfilment to women all over the world".

Ms Jung said Witherspoon will give a strong voice to the company’s commitment to empowering women.