Reese Witherspoon smiles for the paps as she heads back to Georgia: obvious?

Here are some new photos of Reese Witherspoon at LAX yesterday. According to TMZ, she was catching a flight back to Atlanta. Which is weird because during the media flurry last week, someone said that Reese had finished filming her small, independent film in Georgia. Maybe there are some quick reshoots? Or maybe she’s going back to Atlanta to meet with a lawyer in town and figure out a quick way to resolve her disorderly conduct charge. Is that the kind of thing where you can immediately work out some kind of plea deal? What would it entail? A fine and some community service?

Anyway, I don’t have much to say about her right now because there aren’t many stories about her at this point. I was surprised by the lack of Reese stories in last week’s tabloids – some of the lower tier tabloids had stories about her, of course, but she didn’t make any of the covers. Maybe she’s negotiating a People Magazine cover for this week, though? That might be smart. Or maybe she’ll take a different strategy: keep her head down for a month, then revisit the controversy with one big interview (to People, maybe) and a new look or something. I don’t know.

I actually don’t have strong feelings about what her media strategy should be at this point. My guess is that she’s going to talk about it sooner rather than later. Look at this outfit – matchy-matchy hot pink scarf and flats? An accessible mom-tote? Yes. Reese wants you to love her again. She is one of you! She’s just a mom! A mom who had a little too much to drink. She only played the “Do you know who I am?” card because she was so concerned for her poor husband!!

Update: Thanks to Leah for pointing out that Reese isn’t wearing her wedding ring! Well, it looks like Jim Toth is really going to take the fall for everything, right? I’m expecting his announcement that he’s entering rehab momentarily.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

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  1. Leah says:

    Hey Kaiser you forgot to mention that she is not wearing her wedding ring! Trouble in paradise?

    • Kaiser says:

      Damn! I always forget to do Ring Watch. Thanks!

      • Falula says:

        Not only is she not wearing it, she’s flashing her hand clearly to make sure someone notices. I’m not usually on board with ring conspiracies – I only wear my band most days and sometimes I forget – but in her situation she has to know people will say something.

    • Talie says:

      And she’s showing off the hand…tacky.

    • EmmaStoneWannabe says:

      Yeah she sure is being showy about it! This was very thought out. She knows exactly what she’s doing.

  2. Eve says:

    Now she’s smiling for the paps…she didn’t use to do that.

    • marie says:

      ha, I bet it annoys the hell outta her having to do it now.

      • Cazzee says:

        Yeah, I saw the first picture and thought, “That’s a f-ck you smile if I ever saw one. She clearly does not want to be doing this!”

        Ha.

        And what is up about her jettisoning the husband? She throws him overboard just like that? He’s the father of her child.

  3. Veronika Knowles says:

    I think she’ll go back blonde soon to distract people from this snafu. I liked her before, but now I’m not so into Laura Jeanne ….

  4. Jaime says:

    Does anyone else find these post-arrest pictures of Reese with her big-smiles kinda inappropriate. There is no humility in her expressions at all.

  5. menlisa says:

    Eye roll at her purposely holding out her left hand when she isn’t wearing her ring.
    Yep her husband is going to take the fall.
    Transparent.

  6. Jules says:

    Reese is wearing the pink flats of redemption.

  7. PHD Gossip says:

    Reese is dressed in Target’s fashion. Didn’t style her hair. The tote is the best.

    • Eve says:

      She’s one manipulative bitch, isn’t she? That’s a very calculated look (trying to appear as “relatable” as she can to her fans).

      • EmmaStoneWannabe says:

        Yes ^ This. It is all part of her down to earth, sweet mom, southern girl strategy.

    • Rhiley says:

      Yeah, she kind of looks like a budget Pippa Middleton.

      • lisa says:

        LOL i snorted my kale shake a little

      • EmmaStoneWannabe says:

        @ lisa – That’s gross, not cute. No one needs to know that…I dont get why SO MANY people on this site claim to snorting/choking on/coughing up whatever food/beverage when they read something funny. It is overdone – as in, almost every post has a comment like this and it gets really old.

      • Lulu.T.O. says:

        @EmmaStone: Relax. We think that stuff is funny, and we don’t plan on giving it up soon.

  8. Lolly says:

    Never been able to stand this woman. Even when she was playing blonde & cutesy in “Legally Blonde”, she still gave off major bitch vibes. So glad her arrest revealed the real Resse.

  9. Hakura says:

    It does look like she’s going to ‘throw him under the bus’, so to speak. Further inflating his wrongdoing will minimize her’s.

    She should be dropped from a helicopter into a field of cacti. Whose smirking then? Having to spend time bent over to remove the spikes from one’s ass would probably discourage that.

  10. Charlotte says:

    I’m just p*ssed that her ‘apology’ mentioned nothing about how stupid it was to drink & drive and no gratitude for the officer getting them off the road before they had a chance to hurt anybody. Stupid, thoughtless, entitled jerks.

    • EmmaStoneWannabe says:

      Um..because it would admit guilt and be used in the court of law against them, strengthening the case of the defense (state in this matter). Yeah they are wrong for it, but they are not going to openly admit it to media when it is still an unresolved legal matter. While it would make them more likable, it wouldn’t be smart.

  11. poppy says:

    my, how the (almost) mighty have fallen.
    all smiles for the paparazzi? playing the ring game?
    poor old reese! 🙄

  12. Barrett says:

    Maybe she picks bad men.

  13. candice says:

    Leaving town without her husband is one thing, but where’s her (fairly) new baby?

  14. kibbles says:

    She’s ruthless and calculating. I mentioned in the initial post on her arrest that she’d probably divorce Toth, but not before sending him to rehab and acting like she tried to make it work. I didn’t think she’d take off the wedding ring that quickly though. Her outfit is so ridic. She used to carry $4k purses to the grocery store and now she’s carrying a cheap tote.

  15. c'est la vie says:

    She looks like an ad for L.L Bean.
    Nice way to play it.

  16. Emily says:

    How do they expect us to buy the “it’s all Jim Toth’s fault” bs? Unless he sat on her chest and forcibly poured alcohol and entitlement and general douchery down his wife’s throat with a funnel, Reese Witherspoon is fully to blame for her own actions and lack thereof. And throwing her husband under a bus is just making her look worse.

  17. Shelly says:

    To be fair, this is how she normally dresses. I do find it funny that she’s smiling for the paps, as she normally scowls at them. Her lack of wedding ring is also odd. I also don’t buy that just because her husband got pulled over for DUI that he needs rehab…I mean, he may have a drinking problem, but one arrest is not completely indicative of that. I guess we’ll all find out soon enough.

  18. ladymarmalde says:

    Her face looks a bit wonky

  19. MisJes says:

    Laura Poon looks ROUGH in these pictures.

  20. Lee says:

    Do we know if he is an alcoholic? If he is, and it’s any kind of problem in the relationship, this debacle could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. I know she was drinking also that night, but sometimes spouses of drinkers drink more than they would normally (I have a girlfriend who does this, and I worry about her). The missing ring is very telling. If she has put her foot down it will probably be a rehab or divorce situation. And it may be both anyway. Drinkers don’t like to be told to quit, and won’t unless they decide to on their own. And if they do quit, partners live every day waiting for the other shoe to drop, somewhere down the road. Not a fun way to live.

    • cs says:

      I just can’t believe this bish.. She totally threw her husband under the bus, the father of her baby. And the cherry on the topping is that she had her drunken/coked-out friend CH do the honors.. “Reese was just trying to protect her husband”.. She thought it was cute to scope out the JP’s house for sale for JA and GOOP. Knowing damn well she wasn’t planning to purchase it. Karma is a Bitch. You do shady, it will always come back to haunt you. Look at her now.

      • Noodles says:

        Can we please elaborate on the initials? Methinks my brain is a little slow today.

        “She thought it was cute to scope out the JP’s house for sale for JA and GOOP. Knowing damn well she wasn’t planning to purchase it. Karma is a Bitch.”

    • Lulu.T.O. says:

      Truer words have never been typed Lee.

  21. Luxe says:

    Wow, the no ring is definitely intentional. The blond hair will follow and we’ll start seeing Affleck-level pap photos of her and the kids soon after. Celebs are so disingenuous. Ugh.

    Who could’ve guessed that she, not Ryan, would be the one to need image rehab?

    • Agnetha says:

      I know, I am re-thinking my opinion on him now. He came out of their marriage looking like the bad guy, but maybe he wasn’t as bad as we all thought?

      • NP says:

        YES! Re-think! He was thrown under the bus also to keep her victim, squeaky clean image!

  22. Kristen says:

    I love her jeans and her flats (if that makes me vanilla, then so be it)! Can anyone get a designer ID on either?

    • LFord says:

      Seconded! I esp love the scarf (I’m a scarf whore) and am hoping (stupidly) it’s not worth more than my car.

  23. Obvious says:

    Wow….look at all the Reese hate today…she was arrested for disorderly conduct. She didn’t actually get behind the wheel of the car. And because they arrested her husband she would have been taken into custody anyway to at least sober up.

    He made the decision to get behind the wheel, if she was drunk she made the decision not to drive, doesn’t mean everyone around her made a smart decision-they should have called someone. I was drunk once and almost got in a car car with someone who had been drinking, lucky for us a friend called a cab for us instead-i had no idea how drunk the other person was-all i know is i had made a decision not to drive.

    so he goes to rehab. so she divorces him, it’s sad, but why are we hating on her so much?

    Just asking…

    • bopit says:

      was thinking the EXACT same thing. She’s gone 37 years without any one big incident, and this happens (and like you said, she wasn’t even behind the wheel), and it’s BASHReese2013 everywhere. I don’t get it.

      • Kim says:

        Sp after 37 years people get free reign to do illegal things? Theer is never a pass for driving drunk ever and if you think there is you should attend a few MADD meetings & youll change your mind very quickly.

    • bluhare says:

      The reason is that she’s very sanctimonious in her life, and now she’s making a big point about how it’s all her husband by not wearing the ring. Yes, he was driving drunk, but it sounds like she wasn’t any more sober, and SHE was the one who caused all the disruption at the scene. She’s not going to take any responsibility for her part of this but will sure let everyone else. Why wasn’t she the designated driver if she knew her husband has a tendency to overdrink? Why did she get in a car with an obviously impaired person? Answer, because she was too and didn’t think any further than going home.

      That’s why you’re seeing a lot of “huh?”

    • Kim says:

      She made the decision to get in the car with him. That is why she is just as guilty as he is. He could have killed innocent people or her for goodness sakes! She does not even begin to get a pass on this one especially as mother of 2 children and 1 who will be driving soon!

    • Elle Kaye says:

      People like to hate on her, I find it sad. She is a successful woman, shoots straight from the hip, and yet she is thought of as sanctimonious. If she were a man no would think twice. It is a double standard that some women have for other women. She is thought of as a bitch. I like that she works hard and makes no apologies. What is wrong with that? Her husband made a mistake. She came to his defense. Of course he was wrong to drink and drive. And she said stupid things…like no one has ever done that???? And now that she doesn’t have a ring on everyone thinks it is a conspiracy? Wow. Any excuse to keep the hate train alive and moving.

    • Kristen says:

      Watch this:

      http://www.wfaa.com/news/crime/Abdallah-Khader-turns-7-205308601.html

      That’s why so many people are “hating” on Reese. Was she driving? No. Have I ever driven after having too much? Probably. But they should know better. No one is perfect. But Reese and her husband are lucky all they got was a DUI/disorderly conduct charge (respectively).

      • Elle Kaye says:

        Kristen,
        I don’t understand how you can say that you have probably driven drunk and then post a story on a child who was injured in a drunk driving accident and act like you are above it all by judging Reese and her husband but not yourself. You are lucky that wasn’t you who hurt that child. What they did was plain stupid, but you are hardly the person to cast stones.

    • NP says:

      No hate. She has kept her skeletons in the closest for 20 years due to great PR. These are her true colors. She had you fooled!

  24. themummy says:

    Flashing her ring finger? Just because she’s holding her bag? I carry all my bags on my left side, too.

    There are a slew of reasons why she might not wear her wedding ring (I didn’t wear mine yesterday because it was warm out and my fingers felt swollen…happens). I think immediately jumping to one conclusion and one conclusion alone is silly.

    The “flashing her hand” thing drives me crazy (same with Duchess Kate). Is she supposed to hide the hand? Carry her bags on the other arm and carefully guard the left hand?

    • Obvious says:

      Thank you! I forgot to mention that! I know I’m left handed and it absolutely drives me up a wall to carry anything in my right hand/on right arm, EVERYTHING is on my left. Which means I’m ALWAYS “flashing” my ring finger….which is bare, but still.

    • Noodles says:

      Just to be fair, I googled Reese pics. She normally holds her bags this way.

      That being said, she does not have on her ring. She is just coming out of a major controversy for some poor choices she made.

      She’s not just ol’ Laura Jeanne running down to the Piggly Wiggly to pick up a box of Pampers, She is a famous actress (Don’t you know who she is?) with all sorts of PR reps helping her with her “image” and “damage control.”

      Girl knows what she is doing.

  25. Kim says:

    She notoriously talks about how she hates the paps and never smiles for them. This smile is so fake. No Reese your fake smile wont make us forget you allowed your husband to drive drunk, you coul dhave killed innocent people and when he was pulled over, thank goodness, you pulled the do you know who I am card. Yes we know who you are – you are someone who doesnt give a crap that your drunk husband could have killed an innocent child!

  26. Quinn says:

    She always seemed disingenuous to me.

  27. Quinn says:

    A celebrity being disingenuous? Shocker.

  28. Quinn says:

    A celebrity being disingenuous??!! Shocker.

  29. KellyinSeattle says:

    And I thought Aniston had a chin…hers is just right out there.

  30. Marta says:

    she looking like Pippa Midleton when with dark hair