Who Do They Look Like Extra?

His little mini-mes! Followers have debated for years whether or not Ryan Phillippe and ex Reese Witherspoon’s youngsters look extra like their mother or dad — and the Merciless Intentions star is able to set the report straight. 

“What I get so much these days is that they suppose Deacon seems like her and Ava seems like me,” Phillippe, 48, advised Additional in a Thursday, October 20, interview, referencing his 18-year-old son and 22-year-old daughter, whom he shares with the Legally Blonde actress, 46. 

He joked, “My response is at all times, ‘Duh … How are you stunned that youngsters appear like their dad and mom?’ Isn’t that biologically the way it’s meant to work?”

Whereas the Huge Sky alum and Candy Residence Alabama star known as it quits in 2008 after ten years of marriage, the pair have seamlessly raised their two youngsters collectively. 

“Ryan has been an superior father or mother and every part just about stops for him when his youngsters want him,” a supply completely advised Us Weekly in December 2021, noting that coparenting has “by no means been higher” between the actors. “Even in the course of the pandemic when he’s been in actually one other nation, he’s current of their lives and he’s nonetheless the ‘cool father or mother’ of their eyes. He’s actually happy with who they’ve change into.”

Whereas each Phillippe and the Morning Present actress are dedicated to being good dad and mom, followers have frequently taken to social media to gush over Witherspoon’s uncanny resemblance to her youngsters. (The Stroll the Line star can also be mother to 10-year-old son Tennessee James, whom she shares with husband Jim Toth.)

Earlier this month, the Louisiana native weighed in on the topic throughout an look on The In the present day Present With Hoda & Jenna. Witherspoon shocked viewers when she took a a lot completely different stance than her ex-husband, revealing that she doesn’t suppose she seems very similar to any of her youngsters 

When cohost Jenna Bush Hager protested, saying, “Wait, y’all are twins!” in regards to the Concern star and her daughter, Witherspoon replied, “She and I don’t see it that a lot.”

Whereas the Emmy winner loves all her little ones equally, she shared that her parenting dynamic with them has modified over time as they’ve grown. 

“You identify a special relationship,” she advised Hoda Kotb and Bush Hager, 40. “To start with, you’re managing them so much once they’re little and it’s very bodily. After which it’s extra emotional help. And recommendations, not telling them what to do once they get a bit of bit older.”

Witherspoon famous that it’s vital to “nurture your grownup relationship along with your youngsters” as properly and respectfully give them “house to change into who they’re, not who you need them to be.” 

In August, the Hey Sunshine cofounder practiced what she preached by performing as a doting father or mother to Deacon when he launched his new album. 

“Listening [to your EP] on repeat! I really like watching you create music & placing your ideas/ coronary heart/ concepts into the world,” the Water for Elephants star wrote by way of her Instagram Story on the time alongside a hyperlink to the musician’s SoundCloud web page.

Phillippe, for his half, gushed over his son that very same month after he made his performing debut in season 3 of By no means Have I Ever. 

“I’m so proud. He’s about to go to varsity for music [too],” the I Know What You Did Final Summer time actor advised Leisure Tonight. “That’s his main focus. The performing factor he likes to do, and he’ll do in keeping with what his urge for food for it’s, however his focus is primarily music.”