Reese Witherspoon Tattoo in Bikini Flaunts Huge New a Belly

Reese Witherspoon Tattoo in Bikini Flaunts Huge New a Belly :

Witherspoon in February 2011                                 

Born Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon

March 22, 1976 (age 35)

New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.

Occupation Actress

Years active 1991–present

Spouse Ryan Phillippe

(m. 1999–2007; 2 children)

Jim Toth

(m. 2011–present)

Reese Witherspoon Flaunts Huge New Belly Tattoo in Bikini

Reese Witherspoon gave a rare glimpse of her bikini bod while combing with the beach in Hawaii with husband Jim Toth on Sunday. 


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But the 35-year-old Oscar winner's impressive beach physique wasn't the only showstopper: On her lower abdominals, beneath her bellybutton, Witherspoon displayed a recently acquired new tattoo.


The How Do You Know star's ink wasn't a heart, Chinese character or a rose. Instead, Witherspoon's chosen tat was a star, flanked by what appears to be two small birds. See more pictures of the actress' fresh new ink.


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Witherspoon first debuted her surprisingly large tattoo over the July 4th weekend, when fans weren't sure whether it was permanent.

Witherspoon was born at the former Southern Baptist Hospital (now the Ochsner Baptist Medical Center) in New Orleans, Louisiana, where her parents were living while her father was a student at Tulane University medical school. Her father, John Witherspoon, is a Georgia-born otolaryngologist who previously served as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army reserves. Her mother, Betty (née Reese), is from Harriman, Tennessee, has a Ph.D. in pediatric nursing and works as a professor of nursing at Vanderbilt University. Witherspoon has ancestry from the Declaration of Independence, as her Scottish-born ancestor John Witherspoon, signed United States Declaration of Independence. Because Witherspoon's father worked for the U.S. military in Wiesbaden, West Germany, she lived there for four years as a child.After returning to the U.S., she spent her childhood in Nashville, Tennessee.Athough she was born to Catholic parents, she was raised as an Episcopalian.

In 1990, Witherspoon attended an open casting call for The Man in the Moon with some friends, intending to audition as a bit player. She was instead cast in the lead role of Dani Trant, a 14-year-old country girl who falls in love for the first time with her 17-year-old neighbor. Her performance was regarded as "memorably touching" by Variety magazine, and critic Roger Ebert commented, "Her first kiss is one of the most perfect little scenes I've ever seen in a movie. For this role, Witherspoon was nominated for the Young Artist Award Best Young Actress. Later that year.

she made her TV acting debut in the cable movie Wildflower, directed by Diane Keaton and starring Patricia Arquette. In 1992, Witherspoon appeared in the TV movie Desperate Choices: To Save My Child, portraying a critically ill young girl. In 1993, she played a young wife in the CBS miniseries Return to Lonesome Dove and got a starring role as the leading character Nonnie Parker, a South African girl who must cross 1,250 miles (2,000 km) of the Kalahari, in the teen-aimed Disney film A Far Off Place.[3] In the same year, Witherspoon had a minor role in Jack the Bear, which garnered her the Young Artist Award for Best Youth Actress Co-star. The following year, Witherspoon acted in another leading role as Wendy Pfister in the 1994 film S.F.W., directed by Jefery Levy.