Reese Witherspoon Is Not America's Sweetheart!

Reese Witherspoon isn't a goody two-shoes.

The bubbly blond has often been dubbed "America's Sweetheart," but just like Britney Spears sang in 2000's "Oops! I Did It Again," she's not that innocent. "I certainly didn't self-identify as anyone's sweetheart. I'm friendly, but I don't think I'm sweet," Witherspoon says in Glamour's January 2015 issue. "I'm honest."

Though Witherspoon won an Academy Award in 2006 for her dramatic turn as June Carter Cash in Walk the Line, she is most often associated with comedies like Legally Blonde and Sweet Home Alabama. In an effort to challenge herself, both personally and professionally, she signed on for her meatiest role yet in Wild, which was adapted from Cheryl Strayed's best-selling memoir of the same name. "I was scared of the really emotional scenes. I was scared of the sexuality. I was scared of the grittiness and of being bare on-screen. It's not just about having no makeup on your face, like I did in the film," Witherspoon recalls.

No longer concerned with vanity, she could focus on the role. "It's about not being conscious of how you're perceived, allowing yourself to be broken, the way she did so fearlessly in the book," she says.

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