Photo SpecialBecoming... Reese Witherspoon
See how the Vanity Fair star went from Nashville schoolgirl to Hollywood A-lister. By Serena Kappes
Credit: Steve Granitz/WireImage; Dave Allocca/Reuters/Landov
Updated: Tuesday Aug 31, 2004 | 06:00 AM EDT
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A friend brought Phillippe to Witherspoon's 21st birthday party in March 1997 and at night's end, she told him, "I think you're my present." The couple (left, in 1998; right, in August) married in June 1999 and had daughter Ava three months later. "I'm not interested in the fallacy of the Hollywood relationship," says Witherspoon. "We're normal people with normal problems."
