Reese Witherspoon hits the red carpet at the LACMA Art + Film Gala presented by Gucci at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Saturday (November 5) in Los Angeles. The 35-year-old actress and her husband Jim Toth stepped out to help honor the men of the hour: J. Edgar director Clint Eastwood and artist John Baldessari.

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- 11-05-11 – LACMA’s Art And Film Gala Honoring Clint Eastwood And John Baldessa

Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston have been close ever since Reese made her TV debut on “Friends” playing her sister back in 2000, but how close are the two leading ladies?

At Monday’s ELLE magazine’s 18th Annual Women in Hollywood Tribute, Reese joked about her relationship with her former “Friends” co-star.

“[Jen has] sex appeal and complete lovability,” she said. “You just want to get your nails done with her and make out with her at the same time, at least I do, and that’s what we do sometimes on Saturday… first we get our nails done, so cute, and then we make out! It’s totally awesome! That’s because she’s my friend and not yours.”

All kidding aside, Reese told Access Hollywood earlier in the evening she was thrilled to help honor the actress.

“She’s great, she’s a good friend of mine,” Reese told Access. “She’s an awesome friend, as you can imagine.”

Before introducing Jen, Reese shared some heartwarming words about the 42-year-old star.

“On one hand, she’s this gorgeous breathtaking beauty, that men lose their thought process and speech patterns when they see her,” she said of the actress. “On the other hand, she is a woman who lets you in, who lets you see her flaws. She lets an audience laugh at her pain and humility and her humanity.”

After taking the stage to accept her honor, Jen – decked out in a sparkly, backless Kaufman Franco dress with a plunging neckline and Balenciaga shoes – encouraged the crowd to continue having the backs of their big screen sisters.

“We have to continue inspiring, supporting and loving an encouraging each other because for all of the young women who are following in our footsteps,” Jen said.

Other honorees at Monday’s ELLE event included Naomi Watts, Viola Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Barbra Streisand Freida Pinto, and Evan Rachel Wood.

Reese Witherspoon is set to star alongside Jason Segel in Sex Tape, a new rom-com from Sony Pictures. According to Deadline.com, the pair are the studio’s first choice for the lead couple in the film, with Nick Stoller in talks to direct.

The film, which was acquired by the studio in a seven-figure deal in June, follows a married couple who take a night off from family life to spice things up by making a sex tape.

However, the following morning they notice the tape is missing and start a desperate search to find it.

Witherspoon is also slated to star in This Means War next year. The action comedy will also feature Tom Hardy, Chris Pine and Chelsea Handler.

Meanwhile, Bad Teacher star Segel is also due to appear in The Five-Year Engagement and This Is Forty next year.

It’d be his second hook up with Stoller in recent times, after the pair wrote the new Muppets move together.

Not sure if this is legit.. I will keep you updated

Reese attended the 2011 Breast Cancer Global Congress & Avon Walk for Breast Cancer New York on October 16th. You can see a piece of her speech in the post below. Check out pics of the day.

[edit] Also added were 3 additions of Reese’s Lindex commercial shoot. Thanks to Elena! [/edit]

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- Photoshoots from 2011 > Set 001 +3
- Events from 2011 > 10-16-11 – Breast Cancer Global Congress & Avon Walk for Breast Cancer New York  

“Every three minutes a woman is diagnosed, and that’s just unacceptable.”

This is how Reese Witherspoon speaks about breast cancer, a disease that more than 200,000 women in the U.S. were diagnosed with in 2007 alone. On Oct. 16, Witherspoon joined more than 3,000 men and women at the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in New York City, raising more than $8.4 million for breast cancer research and care — just one of many events held throughout October, also known as Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Organizations such as Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization and the Avon Foundation use Breast Cancer Awareness Month as a way to educate the public about the disease and how to be proactive when it comes to detection. Acting as a public face of the Avon Foundation, it is this consciousness-raising role that Reese Witherspoon finds herself in. In town for the walk and to announce the foundation’s latest Global Scholars Initiative, we had a chance to catch up with Witherspoon (who was just as sweet as she appears to be on-screen) and learn more about her involvement with breast cancer education.

Witherspoon has been the foundation’s global ambassador for the past five years, and she says the experience alone has been an education:

When I was first approached by Avon to represent their foundation … I wanted to know, what were the issues on women’s minds? … Breast cancer is first and foremost on the list of concerns for women. Domestic violence is also in the top three … It was really an education for me to see that these are the issues affecting women every day of their lives.

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Here’s one way to make Reese Witherspoon sexier: Ask her to don some leather and bare some flesh.

At least that was the strategy behind This Means War, a spy thriller due in February that posits what would happen if two super-agents fell for the same woman.

The movie, whose trailer hits theaters Friday, features Chris Pine and Tom Hardy as spies who work well enough together — as long as they’re killing people, not courting them. The movie is directed by McG (Charlie’s Angels, Terminator Salvation). Chelsea Handler and Angela Bassett also star.

Pine plays an Ethan Hunt-style spy, an American bruiser who has more fight in him than finesse. Hardy is more of a James Bond agent: smooth, quick with a quip and heavy on the British dryness.

“They get to run around to exotic places, and everything is great until they meet a chick,” says McG, who adds that the film is in the vein of Mr. and Mrs. Smith and the Mission: Impossible and Bond movies.

McG says he is a longtime fan of Witherspoon, an Oscar winner for 2005′s Johnny Cash bio Walk the Line. But he says her provocative side has long been ignored.

When he offered the role, “I told her, ‘You’re America’s sweetheart,’” McG says. “‘Women love you. Men … like you. I want men to covet you.’ She took a deep breath and said, ‘Go for it.’”

That meant dressing her in some tight-fitting spy get-ups and having her lip-wrestle covert operatives.

“Those are really her legs, those are really her abs,” McG says. “That’s her making out with Chris Pine and Tom Hardy.”

McG says that while he has always considered Witherspoon a beauty, the two had to “establish trust” before she agreed to lose any garments.

“I love strong female characters, and she had seen Charlie’s Angels,” he says. “Between her physical readiness and the manner we photographed her, you get a sexy takeaway.

“The audience is the beneficiary.”

McG is catching Pine and Hardy in steep ascent. Pine starred in last year’s hit Unstoppable, and Hardy appears in next summer’s Batman installment The Dark Knight Rises. McG expects that their chemistry — and one of the movie’s messages — will lure women, who are not always the biggest spy fans.

“Men,” McG says, “will disintegrate into boys when a woman is involved.”

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Actress Reese Witherspoon was taken to a hospital on Wednesday, September 7, 2011 after being hit by a car in Santa Monica, CA. Witherspoon was jogging when she was hit by the vehicle. The driver was an 84-year-old woman who was cited for failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.

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The elderly driver who struck Reese Witherspoon on Wednesday will not face charges.

According to Us Magazine, it was Witherspoon’s decision to not press charges, even though the driver, an 84 year-old woman, was caught not yielding to a pedestrian. A representative told the magazine that she was “…not seriously injured and is resting comfortably at home.” Witherspoon’s only injury was a cut to her forehead. She considers the incident an accident and sees no point in pressing the charges, since usually the driver “…would receive a fine and a point on her driving license as it is considered a moving violation,” added the representative.

E! News reports that Santa Monica Police Department ordered the woman to take a full driver’s reevaluation exam within 30 days. The incident is not expected to put a hold on Witherspoon’s plans. She is set to star with Matthew McConaughey in Mud and This Means War with Tom Hardy.

When the royal couple came to California during their North American tour earlier this summer, Kate Middleton had the opportunity to meet many Hollywood celebrities. Who would have guessed that the Duchess of Cambridge—a princess—would be nervous about meeting them? Certainly not Reese Witherspoon!

Reese was “petrified” about meeting the princess, which is also pretty funny—she’s an actress for goodness sake! Reese should be used to talking with people and dealing with nerves.

Reese relaxed a bit once Kate Middleton admitted to being a longtime fan of Witherspoon’s work.

A source told National Enquirer: “It nearly left Reese speechless. Here she was, wondering exactly how you speak to a princess – and here was Kate, practically intimidated at meeting her!”

When you stop to think about it though, even though Kate Middleton is a princess and Reese Witherspoon is a Hollywood actress—both high profile positions—deep down inside they are just normal young women who have the same struggles and fears as every other young woman in the world.

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Check out the BTS video for Reese’s Lindex fall 2011 shoot. I added screencaps to the gallery.

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- Commercials from 2011 > Lindex Fall 2011 American Denim line BTS

Reese Witherspoon is the new face of Swedish high street brand Lindex this fall. She is modelling the “California Denim” campaign which featuers a lot of bootcut jeans, ponchos and hats.  The Swedish clothier has tapped Reese for their Fall 2011 campaign modelling the American Denim collection-a retro ’70′s California style that she pulls off well.

Click the link below to see a few pics from the shoot

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- Photoshoots from 2011 > Set 001