beauty in the breakdown.

yesterday on my lunch break i was reading this month's issue of ELLE magazine.

clearly because of who is on the cover.
duh.
and perhaps because of that little beauty magazine addiction i have.
double duh.

i think this is my favorite article ever written about reese because she finally lets the world in on the secret that her life is not perfect.
in fact, it hasn't been for a really long time.
and even though she ever so classily kept her mouth shut during her divorce,
it shook her to her very core.
she even recounts the christmas where she sat in her car outside of a store, pouring rain, literally unable to stop sobbing nor able to open the door and get out.

after the interview the writer comments that reese called her on the phone, seemingly nervous about how the things she said in terms of her life now would be perceived.
she rambled about how just because she is happily married now, doesn't mean she didn't go through hell and work hard to come back.
she may make money, but she isn't exempt from hardship.
apparently she rambled until finally she said, i don't know...what am i trying to say?
so the writer called up reese's dialogue coach, dana fox, to ask her what she was perhaps trying to say.
dana's response...
i think what reese is trying to say is that she had to fall apart and get back up and earn her happy ending.

well loves...
i have fallen apart.
i got back up.
so i guess now it is time to earn my gosh darn happy ending.
xoxo.