Female power in Reese Witherspoon’s films

CEBU, Philippines - On the cover of Women’s Health magazine’s October 2015 10th anniversary “Power” issue, Reese Witherspoon shows off her trim figure. So what’s the secret to her fabulous figure? She works out with her girlfriends.

“There’s a group of us and I’m like, ‘Okay girls! What are we doing today?’” said the 39-year-old Oscar winner and mother of two.

The magazine said she often trains using the Body By Simone fitness program. The company runs classes in New York and Los Angeles, where Witherspoon lives.

“It incorporates dance, strength training, and stretching, and it’s all in an hour, which is perfectly doable for me,” Witherspoon said. “I do that a couple times a week. I also run, I spin, I do yoga. Physical strength is important.”

“I am a bit of a hip-hop dancer,” she added. “That’s sort of a secret a lot of people don’t know. I like to dance. I’ve got a dance in my heart at all times.”

Witherspoon also talked about new projects in the works with her production company. The actress co-founded it years ago and strives to “create opportunities for other women to tell their stories.”

“We buy a lot of books because we love working with writers. We have a couple of new novels—‘Luckiest Girl Alive’ by Jessica Knoll, which is a great story, sort of a thriller that is in the feeling of ‘Gone Girl.’ There’s also ‘Ashley’s War,’ which is a true story about the first female specials op unit in Afghanistan.”

“We have a lot of different projects—women who are astronauts, women who are working on Wall Street—we are just trying to diversify the idea of how you see women on screen and portraying real women, all ethnicities, all ages,” she said. “It’s a really exciting time.” (FREEMAN)