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Reese Not Ready to Marry Jake

Actress still has "a lot of hope for love"

By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 21, 2008 11:03 AM CST

(Newser) – Reese Witherspoon quashed rumors of an impending engagement to Jake Gyllenhaal in a recent interview with Parade magazine. “I don’t know how I feel about marriage,” she said. “Obviously, I’m not far enough out of being married to think about doing it again.” The actress also discussed her relationship with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe, Hollywood’s treatment of women, and turning 30.

The Oscar-winning actress said she “spent a lot of my 20s just trying to make other people happy, rather than trying to figure out if doing that made me happy,” and is still trying to reconcile her feelings about her divorce. Now that she’s turned 30, she has “discovered the importance of even 15 or 30 minutes a day where it is just me.”

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Though she is not ready for marriage, "I definitely still have a capacity to love," Reese Witherspoon told Parade. She is shown here with Jake Gyllenhaal at the Rome Film Festival, Oct. 21, 2007. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal's year-long friendship has garnered a lot of media attention, but the actress says she is not yet ready to think about marrying again, Parade reports. (YouTube)

Actress Reese Witherspoon discussed her divorce, the traditional values she was raised with, Hollywood's objectification of women, and her thoughts about love with Parade magazine recently. (Getty Images)

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There are things in my life that are hard to reconcile, like divorce. Sometimes it is very difficult to make sense of how it could possibly happen. - Reese Witherspoon

I’m like a junkyard dog. I’d say, ‘Why are they asking me to wear a bikini?’ I get tough, because I see the slippery slope. I’ve heard the way roles are cast. - Reese Witherspoon on Hollywood

The biggest detriment of my life is tabloid fame. It removes me from people. When I first meet someone, it is so hard for me to overcome everything they’ve read about me. It’s not fair. - Reese Witherspoon

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