Photo SpecialBecoming... Reese Witherspoon

See how the Vanity Fair star went from Nashville schoolgirl to Hollywood A-lister. By Serena Kappes

THE JUGGLER photo | Reese Witherspoon

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THE JUGGLER

Witherspoon's role model for managing work and family is her mom, Betty, a professor of nursing. "My mother was working a 10-hour day and picking up her kids and cooking dinner and balancing the workload with her husband," she says.

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Credit: Flynet

Updated: Tuesday Aug 31, 2004 | 06:00 AM EDT

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