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‘No one was coming to save me’: How Reese Witherspoon built a $900 million company from a problem Hollywood wouldn’t fix
While it’s an iconic line from her career-making film Legally Blonde, it’s also a mantra Reese Witherspoon lives by.
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While it’s an iconic line from her career-making film Legally Blonde, it’s also a mantra Reese Witherspoon lives by. The actress-turned-media-company owner has long had the grit required to ideate, found, and sell a near-billion-dollar company that flipped Hollywood’s script on its head. (And this week, she bought it back .) By the time Witherspoon was 34, she had spent two decades inside the movie business and had seen enough.
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