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" On her divorce : &amp;quot;Very humiliating and very isolating...But, by the way, if it&amp;#039;s not painful, maybe it wasn&amp;#039;t the right decision to marry to begin with. Those are the appropriate emotions. When people get in your face and say, `This will pass,&amp;#039; you think, Are they crazy? I&amp;#039;m never gonna feel any better than I feel right this minute and nothing&amp;#039;s ever gonna make sense again. And I still have moments where I&amp;#039;m like, Nothings ever gonna make sense again.&amp;quot;   On dealing with the pain that stems from divorce: &amp;quot;You see a lot of people play this blame game. Blame, blame, blame. You know? And it&amp;#039;s a really easy thing to do, and I&amp;#039;m certainly guilty of it. [You have to] look at yourself and go, `What part of this do I need to own? Which part of this is my responsibility? And that&amp;#039;s the painful work that you have to go through to hopefully get some real life knowledge out of it.&amp;quot;   On boyfriend, Jake Gyllenhaal: &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s fabulous. He really is a fantastic guy. Unfortunately, he&amp;#039;s not in the movie, so we can&amp;#039;t really talk about him.&amp;quot;  On being a young mother: &amp;quot;When I first had Ava, I couldn&amp;#039;t afford [help]. And it was so hard. I was out in Los Angeles, living [away from my family]. I really didn&amp;#039;t have any friends. And I had a baby. No one else who was 22 had a baby. I couldn&amp;#039;t go out.&amp;quot;  CHECK OUT THE APRIL ISSUE OF ELLE FOR THE FULL STORY ON REESE WITHERSPOON   On her reported Type A personality: &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t think I&amp;#039;m a control freak. I think I&amp;#039;m just fearful. I operate from a lot of fear, like, of things being lost or forgotten or neglected. Losing the spiritual rather than the physical. It&amp;#039;s so funny to me that somehow I&amp;#039;ve been portrayed as a very, like, closed-off or uptight person. I&amp;#039;m very open.&amp;quot;   On the paparazzi:  &amp;quot;Fascination is gonna die off. I honestly know it. But it&amp;#039;s just like I keep waiting and waiting, and then it&amp;#039;s just more tabloid magazines, and it keeps going. I don&amp;#039;t take a shower everyday. I don&amp;#039;t put on makeup everyday. I wear a lot of sunglasses, in case you noticed.&amp;quot;   On not being diet obsessed: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m made of cookies after the holidays. Everything inside me is made of sugar and flour and a little red wine\u2013a lot of red wine.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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