Yay! I had a feeling that Reese Witherspoon would be giving birth this week. Thank God my Pregnancy Betting Pool wasn’t completely off. People Mag and Us Weekly have confirmed that Reese welcomed her third child today, Thursday. It’s a boy! This is the first child for Reese’s husband Jim Toth, and it’s Reese’s second son. We even have a name! Tennessee James Toth.
Reese Witherspoon is a mom again! The 36-year-old actress welcomed a baby boy, named Tennessee James, in a Los Angeles on Thursday Sept. 27, her tells confirms to Us Weekly:
“Reese Witherspoon and husband Jim Toth welcomed Tennessee James into their family today. Both mom and baby are healthy and the entire family is thrilled.”
This is Witherspoon’s third child, and her first with second husband Toth; Us broke news of the Oscar-winner’s pregnancy back in March 2012.
Witherspoon shares custody of daughter Ava, 12, and son Deacon, 8, with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe, 37, from whom she split in 2006 after 7 years of marriage.
Toth, 41, a high-powered CAA agent, and the Water for Elephants star in March 2011 at the actress’ $10 million ranch in Ojai, Calif. (which Witherspoon recently put back on the market) after over a year of dating.
I guess the name is for Reese – she was raised in Tennessee, and she identifies herself as a Tennessee girl. It could also be an homage to Tennessee Williams too, I suppose, although Williams’ real name was Thomas. I kind of like the name… historically, I don’t have a problem with “location” names and stuff, although I still hate that Alicia Keys named her son Egypt.
Anyway, congrats to Reese, Jim and the whole family!
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
that was quick!
Congrats!
Funny, it seemed to me like she was pregnant for 2 years! Congrats to the family.
For me, it seems like she has been pregnant for a very long time, too. LOL Not too crazy about the name but I wish her and her family all the best. She always comes across as a good mom to her older kids. Her oldest is 13. That’s quite an age spread but it might be nice to have an older child around to help her out with the newborn.
Same here, as celebrity pregnancies go, I thought this was a pretty quick one. Yay, congrats? I watched This Means War a few days ago and Reece was hysterical.
Edit, *congrats!
Yay!! Congrats to them! I like the name.
I love it! Congrats to the whole family!
As a later in life baby for my mama, I know it is truly a blessing!
I have to laugh that 36 is a “later in life” baby. 36 is still young!
Oh i am not saying 36 is old, but technically speaking after 35 you are considered a higher risk because of age. So age wise no 36 is not old, biologically speaking it is, your odds for being able to get pregnant dramatically drop after 31.
@Relli:
Actually the ‘extra’ medical monitoring for pregnancies start at 39/40 yrs, before you have less risks, there is no difference between a 25 yrs and a 35 yrs in term of pregnancy risks ( but there is a 5% decrease in terms of fertility, which is marginal, it does not drop dramatically after 31 but 42… which is drastically different).
So yeah 36 is not later in life.
In my country 20% of women have their first child between 35 and 40 and 17% at 40 (and we are talking only about first children here:))…so 36 is quite random overhere ;)!
My mom was 36 when she got pregnant with me & 37 when I was born &, due to her age, she had to have extra monitoring during her very low-risk pregnancy. Maybe it depends on where you are, but 36 is considered “old” pregnancy wise some placed
Sorry lafairy, but 36 is considered a older for pregnancy and extra tests, etc. will be recommended.
@Bodhi:
It certainly depends on where you live , I am in France , and here monitoring begings at 38 if there is specific issues prior to the pregnancy (diabetis, blood pressure, etc…) and 39/40 if there were no antecedents or no risks spotted in the first exams.
@Bluedog: and no sorry 36 is not considering “old pregnancy”…. by my fertility doctor dad;)!! that’s how I know all these silly statistics.
and as my dad says:” contrary to human beings nature is very logical and she doesn’t stop abrutly her course right in the middle of a woman’s life,it is a way more progressive journey” (in his explanations: menopause average age being at 52, it would be rather abnormal that nature spoils about 20 years in nothing, “nothing” being not “reproductive” at all)
So sorry but in my country a 36 yrs old pregnancy is not “old pregnancy).
Average age for the first child in France is 31
@lafairy, Sorry but i have to agree with Bodhi here as well as the scientists that I work with. Most of whom have their children after 35 due to their careers and have repeated the same information knowing their risks in doing so.
Perhaps the difference in countries which, would attribute to diet, exercise and lifestyle which, ultimately does contribute to fertility in its own way. ALSO consider that any studies done as such to determine the circumstances of average age and health of the mother would have been done based on your country alone. Not every study done in one country will hold water in another due to the environment alone.
So it is not inconceivable that in France the average age to be considered late in life would different. But here in the US (for whatever reason) after 35 demands extras tests and precautions in order to ensure the health of the child.
@Bodhi my mother was same age too! And having had my sisters at 21 & 22 respectively, I was MUCH later in her life 🙂
Bridging the America/France gap here, I had my first 4 kids in the States (California and Oregon) and the last one (FINITA!!!!) in France. All but the first child were born after I turned 35, and all the doctors involved treated those pregnancies as “high risk,” although in my case that didn’t seem to mean much more than being counseled to have CVS/amnio (declined) and more genetic counseling.
So from where I sit (anecdata alert!), 36 is officially high(er) risk, but for a woman who appears to be in good health and who surely has the best healthcare money can buy, the reality was probably fairly uneventful.
I had my first at 27 and last at 36. I realize a lot of women postpone kids until later for very good reasons. However, those intervening years made a huge difference. The last pregnancy was a lot rougher. Get it over with when you’re young(er!).
Congrats! Love the name!!!
I could use a gossip blow out today. I am bored, crabby and have a massive headache, & the Mr. won’t get out our my hair.
Tennessee is ok, I guess. T.J. or Tenn or Jimmy perhaps.
I’d rather be discussing some super scandalous Reese gossip. You know it’s hiding out there. Normally I wouldn’t be snarky in a newborn post but there aren’t even any other threads I’m half interested in reading today.
Something big better explode tomorrow! Or I’m writing fan fiction
Yikes Lem, I am serious, I am in/at the same place as you today! Well said, thank you, but since you used my bitch rant here, I’ll have to wait and hope something comes up later on the links thread for me to get my bitch rant on about. 🙂
Yo, I got some fo real stuff. Ya’ll know that dude ain’t the bio father? Ms. Yahoo used a donor, IVF but used the legal name of dude for the middle name to make it look legit! I shizz you not! It’s the truth man! The truth! Ain’t nothing real about Ms. Yahoo Witherspoon. Everything is smoke and mirrors man, smoke and mirrors…..
@For Real Tho:
I agree.
Reese seems to be nothing but snarky and mean towards other stars/starlets. I have not heard her say anything nice about anybody that I can recall. I don’t understand why people like her with the mean things she has stated in the past. She even commented on how unpleasant it was to kiss Robert Pattinson in “Water For Elephants” because he had a cold. Did we really need to know he had a terrible cold and it was not pleasant to kiss him during the movie? It totally ruined it for me.
It will be interesting to see if she exercises for hours everyday to get back in shape or decides to spend time with her baby (as Christine Applegate indicates she has chosen to do).
I don’t want to be a killjoy but I really dislike that name. It just doesn’t sound nice.
But anyway, congrats to her.
Yes I agree. Imagine the taunts – Tenny, Tennis shoe, ten. She makes him sound real country.
Ugh, I don’t like it in combination with the family name: Tenny Toth, T. Toth, Ten Toth, Tensee Toth, TJ Toth – they all sound like names a pre-school Barney fan with a speech impediment would come up with.
Maybe they’ll call him nessy. No.
Seriously. I was shocked at that ridiculous name. Her other children’s names are so pretty! Having had parents who got “creative” with my name, though, I may be overly sensitive on this particular subject.
Yeesh. I’d take his sister’s lobotomy sooner than that name.
Early in the film Andrei Rublev, three traveling priests happen upon a little display wherein the village jester/political commentator belittles the men at the top, caricaturing them to an appreciative audience. Consumed by envy, one of the priests turns the performer into the authorities and the man is dragged away to an uncertain future. Was it personal? Heavens, no. The poor chap was merely a means to an end in one man’s envious campaign to tarnish the name of a fellow painter–a fellow painter whose talent was peerless. And so, Andrei was framed and sat accused for years, unbeknownst to him.
And because Russia’s not particularly big, the accused and the detained collide. While imprisoned, some very violent people made sure that he would never speak against the rulers (or anything) by pulling a Philomel.
And I watched with dread.
And I heard a few baby names, then more, more, more and more. And I think that if anyone had the grapes to treat these celebrities similarly, there would be no Banjo, no Maple, no Apple, no, Peaches, no Coco, no Zuma, no Audio Science, not Moxie CrimeFighter, no Pilot Inspektor, no Babe, Seven, no Puma, no Bronx Mowgli, no Bear, no Buddy Bear (these are two different humans(?)), no Jermajesty, no Midnight, no Suri, no Tamerlame, no Kal(fucking)-El…
And there would follow a great peace, so maybe there’s beauty in the brutality.
The insidiousness of it: I’ve come into contact with three very non-famous ladies named Spatula, Romance and Spontaneous, so who knows what’s next?
Cingrats! There is a lot of “e” in his name.
So happy 4 them! Yah I luv Reese.
Ugh, this girl is so country. Sorry guys, but she lost me about 8 years ago when she talked about crying over having to darken her hair for the Johnny Cash movie. She’s a shallow hillbilly. I’ll pass.
Tennessee? Reese is such a poser. “hey y’all, I am from Tennessee, remember?” Naming her son that seems so contrived, she doesn’t spend any time in Tennessee unless she is attending court hearings for her brother or father *snerk* Even during the floods a few years ago, she didn’t offer any assistance. She bailed on the TN reshoots for WFE too, she was papped shopping in LA (she said she had preproduction in Vancouver) and they had to use an extra. When people like Sandra B and Ellen D, who have no connection to TN donate time or money, it just shows you what Reese is really like. But then again, legal fees for the wayward family does take a bite out of the millions of dollars she makes every year. Hope she gets a pretty penny for her ranch. The asking price should be solid since she let Pattinson mend his achy breaky heart there.
Also just now remembering the story Kevin Smith told recently about Reese being a total C.U.N.T. to fellow actress Joey Lauren Adams when they were both auditioning for Chasing Amy, and Reese was still a nobody back then. When someone is a nasty person even before they’re famous, I can only imagine how horrible they are once they’re “rich & powerful”. Judging by this flood business, she’s even worse than I thought.
Her Little Miss Down Home act is definitely bogus. Her dad is/was a pretty successful ENT, the street she grew up on is in an affluent area, and she went to a VERY exclusive girls school. She may not have quite been of the Belle Meade Country Club set (fellow Nashvillians will know what I mean,) but she definitely had a privileged upbringing.
I haven’t liked her since she became buddies with Handler but Im happy she and Tenny 🙂 are healthy
Pfft!! Hillbilly my ass! She comes from money. Please don’t be so prejudiced against Southeners it makes you look really shallow.
Uh, she comes from money but her family has a bit of trash in them. They are definitely on the fringe of the social scene in nashville. Money but little class
Hey lay off of the hillbillies. Nothing wrong with them. Some of the nicest and respectful people I’ve ever met are ‘hillbillies.’ She is no hillbilly.
Congrats to them!
Tennesse Toth? Ok…guessing he will go by a nickname or his middle name.
I don’t like the name. What’s the short form, Nessie? 😉
Liv : you’re awesome
She looks so done is those last pics. That’s when pregnancy stops being cute and $h!+ gets real.
Hahaha, I was thinking the exact same thing. It looks like just existing is uncomfortable for her there. Congrats to them, I kind of like the name, but wouldn’t choose it for my kid haha
He looks like he was over it, too!
I like Reese and this is lovely news. But I don’t like the name Tennessee. It sounds so … try-hard.
Horrible name and the longest pregnancy ever.
Um. No. That award goes to Jessica Simpson.
Sorry, but this name is awful. As a nickname like Tennessee Williams is fine, but as a given name? Some place names (usually cities) can be okay, but a state name (other than Georgia or Carolina) are terrible. Or maybe I’m the odd one and should’ve considered naming my baby Wisconsin.
Congrats to them though!
COngrats!!
After ava and deacon, Tennessee sounds kind of tacky
Congratulations! I’m very happy for the whole family!
I’m also one who doesn’t like the name, especially since it’s where she’s from. I vote the new trend be not location names but restaurants the parents like. Like Cracker Barrel.
Ha ha! Waffle House Witherspoon?
Or Blue Ivy Carter .. hahaha
hey wait a minute….
Maybe the baby was conceived in Tennessee, like Paris, Chelsea etc. Still don’t like it for a boy, would be cool for a girl though.
I wonder if Jim had some kind of surgery because he’s missing a huge chunk of hair on the side of his head.
Looks to me like it’s just shaved close on the sides.
Love Reese and am happy to hear her baby is healthy!
Not a fan of the name though. It has meaning for her which I can appreciate but I just don’t care for the sound of it as a given name. When you pair it with the last name, it just sounds silly. I wish people would really think about how they’re strapping their kids with these names for LIFE. Someday that child may want to be taken seriously in their professional life and having a gimmicky name seems more like a hindrance.
Let’s be serious, the majority of these celeb kids are never going to try to be taken seriously in the professional world
Probably not! I just feel bad for kids that end up with a crazy name.
Congrats to them!
I like his name. Different but not crazy.
How are you against the name Egypt but for the name Tennessee?! Lol. I think Egypt is a beautiful name for either a boy or girl. I also love the name India. I cannot get with that name, especially paired with the last name (which is pronounced how exactly? I always mentally see it as tooth even though it’s toth) Tennessee Toth sounds ridiculous! As a middle name it’s cute and James is a lovely name for a boy, they should have switched it around. Just my two cents. Glad everyone is healthy.
Horrible name. Tennessee toth?
Isn’t it awful? Every time I try to picture myself in a playground full of kids yelling “Tennessee!” I feel ridiculous just thinking about it. I wouldn’t even give a dog that name.
Having said that, I LOVE the name James. It’s my youngest daughter’s middle name. 🙂
I know! What the hell? And Tenn Toth, or whatever “T” nickname you could come up with is just ridiculous.
Yea the name has to sound good when you tell it! Lol
I love the name James for a girl or a boy. I was sad when James king started going by Jamie.
I agree with the T name not being good for Toth. It also seems weird since her first two children have such “normal” names.
Congrats! She seemed to be pregnant forever!
I like Southern place names as much as anyone, (obviously ;)) But Tennessee Toth? Tenny Toth? Not a fan. It just doesn’t fit with Ava and Deacon IMO. But hey, It’s not my baby!
I wish them all the best.
Nice name, Tennessee James Toth, as long as you call him by his middle name, James. Lol. Calling him Tennessee or Ten or Tenny, just no.
I don’t think it’s that bad but it is a little too “Im southern y’all” even for her. I can say that since I’m from Tennessee too. Lol.
Like jayna, I assume the baby will go by James which is a great name.
I can just hear it in the playground now: Tater Toth
Poor kid.
I’m against names that make you sound like you have a lisp. Poor kid will be 15 before he can get it out properly.
Love her, love the classic names she gave the first two, but not digging the name at all.
Congrats! 😀 Tennessee (for her) and James (for him, obvs) isn’t a bad name, and he can go by TJ if he so chooses!
Tennessee would have been better as a second name. As a first, it’s just awful. He’s going to hate them one day for giving him such a ridiculous name.
I think he’ll fit in with all the other celebrity kids who have unique names.
It reminds me of Tennessee Tuxedo. Awful. That said-she was the cutest pregnant woman ever-loved her look.
Her other kids have rather nice names so I didn’t expected she would name the third one like this. I guess Ryan wouldn’t let her. I understand she is proud to be Southern but really. I’m waiting for some British celebrity to name their kid Northumberland.
Please please please let that celebrity be Benedict Cumberbatch. Northumberland Cumberbatch! Say it 3 times fast.
Northumberland Cumerberbatch sounds like an awesome Kentucky vacation destination
That was the exact same celebrity I was thinking about while typing the name Northumberland but I stopped myself from posting this (too mean, I still like him). But Northumberland Cumberbatch sounds so ridiculous I just want it to happen. That name would probably beat Pilot Inspektor and Bear Blue on every worst baby names list.
Tennessee is a gorgeous name.
I agree. Great name.
Welcome TJ!
@Lagairy
Where I live in the states high risk prenatal care (due to age) starts at 35.
Tennessee Toth UGH
I personally wouldn’t name my son Tenessee, but I dont think its THAT bad.
It’s late but had to post on here! I live in Nashville & had sinus surgery today & on all my scripts it has “John D. Witherspoon” name(Reese’s dad)b/c he’s one of the ENT’s that works w/ my doc! I wondered if he was in the building but then I saw Reese gave birth & bet he flew out to Cali! Anyway just thought I’d mention..she prob does come to Nashville quite a bit since she has fam here!
Can you imagine my homeland fiasco names?
Let’s welcome baby
-Moose Jaw
-Medicine Hat
-Flin Flon
-Great Slave Lake (it doesn’t matter if it’s not pronounced or in reference to what you think it is)
-Dildo
Don’t do this to your babies, love them!
Congratulations and my best wishes for REESE and her family!
Did no one think of “Toothy Tile”??? That’s all I think of of when I read this kids name. And if any of those blinds are true about her
Related to Tennessee Tuxedo, the cartoon penguin?
I can’t believe you actually found a picture of Reese Witherspoon where her mouth is not hanging open (pic #2).
In every paparazzi shot of her, she always has this stupid half smile, mouth hanging open look. I know this is really stupid and bitchy, but it drives me nuts!
And the baby name is ridic.