Reese Witherspoon, 45, looks youthful in all pink to channel her Legally Blonde character

Elle Woods is back! Reese Witherspoon, 45, channels her Legally Blonde character to announce a new partnership: ‘Summer is just around the corner!’


Reese Witherspoon shared an image to Instagram on Wednesday that looked as if she was on the set of Legally Blonde 3.

The Oscar-winning star, 45, was wearing a perky smile as she sat in a wicker chair in all pink, the favorite color of her Legally Blonde character Elle Woods.

There have been two Legally Blonde movies so far with a third one in the works, which is currently set for release in May 2022.

Blonde ambition: Reese Witherspoon shared an image to Instagram on Wednesday that looked as if she was on the set of Legally Blonde

Spot on: She played smart but bubbly Elle Woods; seen here in her Harvard video

Spot on: She played smart but bubbly Elle Woods; seen here in her Harvard video

A third Legally Blonde film is in the works with Witherspoon reprising her role as Elle Woods. The Office star Mindy Kaling, who’s co-writing the script, said that Elle will be 40 in the sequel.  

The post was to share her work with her company Draper James and Lands’ End.

‘Summer is just around the corner! ☀️  ⛱ Time to get prepared. @draperjames is starting the summer off right with our newest collection of swimwear for @landsend,’ she said in her caption.

‘Check out all the cute styles (with great coverage & support) and coverups to match!’

So chic: The post was to share her work with her company Draper James and Lands' End. Reese was in a garden chair as she had on a pink and white gingham dress with a pink and white blanket behind her

So chic: The post was to share her work with her company Draper James and Lands’ End. Reese was in a garden chair as she had on a pink and white gingham dress with a pink and white blanket behind her

Reese was in a garden chair as she had on a pink and white gingham dress with a pink and white blanket behind her.

In the foreground was a pink and white gingham purse with a pink handkerchief attached and glasses in the pocket. 

This comes after the star said she thinks she’d be in a ‘totally different position’ if she hadn’t been portrayed as ‘good’ by the media.

The actress contrasted her experiences when going through her divorce from Ryan Phillippe – the father of her oldest children Ava, 21, and 17-year-old Deacon – in 2008, the same year Britney Spears split from Kevin Federline.

New collab: 'Summer is just around the corner! ☀️ ⛱ Time to get prepared. @draperjames is starting the summer off right with our newest collection of swimwear for @landsend,' she said in her caption

New collab: ‘Summer is just around the corner! ☀️ ⛱ Time to get prepared. @draperjames is starting the summer off right with our newest collection of swimwear for @landsend,’ she said in her caption

She noted: ‘My children will tell you stories about being in preschool and people climbing on the roofs of our cars.’

The Big Little Lies actress recalled how women like Britney, Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan were deemed to be ‘bad’, while she and her friend Jennifer Garner were seen as ‘good’, even when she was filmed screaming at the cameras in her face, and she thinks it’s ‘kind of s****’ the way the contrasting depictions have impacted on them all years later.

She told TIME magazine: ‘What if the media had decided I was something else? I would be in a totally different position.

Redo: There have been two Legally Blonde movies so far with a third one in the works, which is currently set for release in May 2022. Seen in the 2001 film

Redo: There have been two Legally Blonde movies so far with a third one in the works, which is currently set for release in May 2022. Seen in the 2001 film

‘I want to say it’s my decisions or the career choices I made, but it felt very arbitrary. And kind of s*****.’

The Hello Sunshine producer – who also has son Tennessee, eight, with husband Jim Toth – is thankful to have a strong group of women around her and recalled a secret initiative she got involved with when Shonda Rhimes had her call 30 business leaders in Hollywood who had no women or people of colour on their boards.

She said: ‘One day I’ll tell you what happened. There was something about Shonda believing that I could. I was proud of myself…

‘Whenever I feel discouraged, I have a group of women. We all text each other, and we’re like: Just keep going.’

Reese also reflected on what her ‘Legally Blonde’ character Elle Woods would be doing now and expressed her frustrations.

She said: ‘She’s hitting barriers and obstacles that she never thought she’d be hitting later in life. She reminds me of the woman at the Women’s March, holding the sign that says, I’M STILL DOING THIS S***.’