Reese Witherspoon: I Don't "Have It All"

Newlywed Reese Witherspoon strikes a fierce pose on the cover of the May issue of the UK's Elle. The Water for Elephants star talks to the magazine about movie-making, motherhood, and the challenge of juggling both.

One of the industry's top-grossing actresses, Reese also seems to have found happiness on the home front with her new husband Jim Toth - they tied the knot just last week - and her gorgeous kids Ava, 11, and Deacon, 7. But don't assume she "has it all."

“There’s this fallacy that we can have it all. I get it often, ‘Oh, you have it all’ - and I don’t," she insists. "It’s hard. And there are times I take two years off and I don’t work. And there are times I go to work and I feel sick because I can’t see my kids for five days. And it’s real hard to go. Work is important to me. The kids are important to me. My relationship’s important to me. But all three can’t be functioning at 100 per cent at all times."

The Oscar-winner also weighs in on what it's like to be a woman in Hollywood these days.

“I’m not going to lie, it’s fun to watch," Reese says of all the red carpet hoopla. "But at a certain point, I go, ‘Wait, strip it all down.’ These girls—I shouldn’t say girls, these women—worked really hard, really hard, and now it’s reduced to … ‘She looks frumpy.’... We’re just too hard on each other. Women need to be more supportive of each other, stop tearing each other apart. There’s plenty of room for all of us. There’s plenty of men for all of us. There’s plenty of jobs. There’s plenty of room! I really believe it. Another actress out there has a number-one movie? They’re going to make more movies about women. A female writer sells a script? They’re going to look at another script from another woman. The better one woman does, the better all women do.”

Elle isn't the only magazine Reese covers at the moment - Hello! has a wedding day shot of the happy bride. Beautiful!