Reese Witherspoon spends four hours reorganizing her underwear drawer
Mia Russell
Updated on March 11, 2026
Ordinarily, I would use the magazine cover for the header image, but after one look at this ^ photo from Reese Witherspoon’s Harper’s Bazaar editorial, I was like, “Oh, that one is going up top.” I can’t believe Reese agreed to wear that and pose like that. It looks like Gone With the Wind puked on her. It looks like Blake Lively’s Allure of Antebellum is finally coming to fruition. Of course, I don’t have total hate for this editorial – Bazaar did make Reese hold a piglet for one photo, and I will always love a piglet theme. Anyway, you can read Reese’s profile here. Here are some highlights from the interview:
Her view on life now versus her 20s: “I’m much more open now. In my 20s, I was scared of everything. I didn’t know what my career was. I didn’t know why people liked my movies. I was wary of interacting with people. I was 25 when ‘Legally Blonde’ came out, 26 for ‘Sweet Home Alabama’, and 29 for ‘Walk the Line’. And I was scared, really scared. Now I feel like a different person. It’s a great thing getting older. You are who you are; you say what you mean.”
On what she thinks about for casting female roles: “I certainly can’t star in all these movies. I want to get a female perspective on film that would make my daughter understand what it means to be a woman in a different way.”
Her production company has 30 projects in development: “We’re reading constantly. My brain hurts sometimes. Sometimes I’ve been reading and watching movies for seven days, and I need a break.”
Why she launched Draper James: “Well, it comes from a lot of the same instincts about making movies. I saw an empty space. All these women in the South, they read fashion magazines, but nobody was telling the stories about their upbringing—their mothers, their grandmothers who love getting dressed up. It’s a feminine culture.”
On what she likes to do when she’s at home “relaxing”: “My husband would definitely say, ‘She’s very relaxed at home.’ Hmm, I don’t cook much. I used to cook a lot; I relax a lot. You know what I like to do? Reorganize bookshelves and my sock drawer. [My husband] Jim’s like, ‘What have you been doing for four hours in your closet?’ I’m like, ‘Um, reorganizing my underwear?’”
Honestly, the only thing that made me roll my eyes was the bit about Draper James – “I saw an empty space.” Really? Reese launched Draper James after Goop, after Jessica Alba’s Honest Company, after Blake Lively announced that she would be doing Preserve (which failed). Reese was not a trendsetter, she was a trend follower when she launched Draper James. I realize that her “spin” on lifestyle branding was different – “SOUTHERN, Y’ALL!” – but the fact that she moved into clothing/lifestyle was not some brand new thing for actresses.
Also: I totally get her about reorganizing the underwear drawer. I was trying to quickly reorganize mine a few days ago and I had to stop because I was like, “OMG, this is going to be a much more intensive process than I originally considered.” Like, it’s probably going to take me more than an hour to reorganize it. And now I have a stack of about twenty panties sitting on the bookshelf in my bedroom. Sigh… I never should have started!
Photos courtesy of Alexi Lubomirski/Harper’s Bazaar.
