Reese Witherspoon attributes her $440 million success to anxiety—she says she pushed herself to ‘extreme levels to show up at work in a perfect way’

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Reese Witherspoon is learning to relax nowadays, but she says the rise to her success as an Oscar-winning actress was thanks in part to one complicated motivator: anxiety.
“I was probably successful because I had so much anxiety. They go hand in hand,” she just told Harper’s Bazaar…

This story appeared on fortune.com, 2025-11-04 17:12:04.
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