{"id":34083,"date":"2023-03-28T01:11:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T21:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=230593"},"modified":"2023-03-28T01:11:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T21:11:52","slug":"reese-witherspoon-divorce","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/reese-witherspoon-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"The Possible Reason Behind Reese Witherspoon\u2019s Marriage Breakdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_230595\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-230595\" style=\"width: 5027px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-230595 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-904002098.jpg?resize=5027%2C3648\" alt=\"Reese Witherspoon\" width=\"5027\" height=\"3648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-904002098.jpg?resize=5027%2C3648?w=5027 5027w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-904002098.jpg?resize=5027%2C3648?w=300 300w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-904002098.jpg?resize=5027%2C3648?w=768 768w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-904002098.jpg?resize=5027%2C3648?w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-904002098.jpg?resize=5027%2C3648?w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-904002098.jpg?resize=5027%2C3648?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-904002098.jpg?resize=5027%2C3648?w=400 400w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-904002098.jpg?resize=5027%2C3648?w=155 155w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-904002098.jpg?resize=5027%2C3648?w=3000 3000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-230595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SANTA MONICA, CA &#8211; JANUARY 11: Jim Toth and actor Reese Witherspoon attend The 23rd Annual Critics&#8217; Choice Awards at Barker Hangar on January 11, 2018 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk\/Getty Images for The Critics&#8217; Choice Awards )<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In heartfelt message on March 25, <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/mila-kunis-ashton-kutcher-reese-witherspoon\/\">Reese Witherspoon<\/a>, 47, announced she and her husband of 12 years Jim Toth, 52, will be divorcing. The announcement came two days before the couple were to celebrate their 12<sup>th<\/sup> wedding anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have some personal news to share. It is with a great deal of care and consideration that we have made the difficult decision to divorce,\u201d Witherspoon wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have enjoyed so many wonderful years together and are moving forward with deep love, kindness, and mutual respect for everything we have created together. These matters are never easy and are extremely personal. We truly appreciate everyone\u2019s respect for our family\u2019s privacy at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_230596\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-230596\" style=\"width: 3621px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-230596 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-1200625161.jpg?resize=3621%2C5431\" alt=\"Reese Witherspoon\" width=\"3621\" height=\"5431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-1200625161.jpg?resize=3621%2C5431?w=3621 3621w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-1200625161.jpg?resize=3621%2C5431?w=200 200w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-1200625161.jpg?resize=3621%2C5431?w=768 768w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-1200625161.jpg?resize=3621%2C5431?w=683 683w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-1200625161.jpg?resize=3621%2C5431?w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-1200625161.jpg?resize=3621%2C5431?w=1365 1365w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-1200625161.jpg?resize=3621%2C5431?w=400 400w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-1200625161.jpg?resize=3621%2C5431?w=143 143w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-1200625161.jpg?resize=3621%2C5431?w=2000 2000w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-1200625161.jpg?resize=3621%2C5431?w=3000 3000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-230596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA &#8211; JANUARY 19: (L-R) Jim Toth and Reese Witherspoon attend the 26th Annual Screen Actors\u00a0Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 19, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. 721336 (Photo by Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for Turner)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Collective gasps were felt across the world. These two people \u2013 one a Hollywood talent agent, the other an Oscar winning actress \u2013 seemed to be made for one another. They share a 10-year-old son Tennessee, and Toth also helped co-parent Witherspoon\u2019s two other children, Ava, 23, and Deacon, 19, from her first marriage to actor Ryan Phillipe.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_230598\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-230598\" style=\"width: 2085px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-230598 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-110151170.jpg?resize=2085%2C3200\" alt=\"Reese Witherspoon\" width=\"2085\" height=\"3200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-110151170.jpg?resize=2085%2C3200?w=2085 2085w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-110151170.jpg?resize=2085%2C3200?w=195 195w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-110151170.jpg?resize=2085%2C3200?w=768 768w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-110151170.jpg?resize=2085%2C3200?w=667 667w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-110151170.jpg?resize=2085%2C3200?w=1001 1001w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-110151170.jpg?resize=2085%2C3200?w=1334 1334w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-110151170.jpg?resize=2085%2C3200?w=400 400w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-110151170.jpg?resize=2085%2C3200?w=140 140w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-110151170.jpg?resize=2085%2C3200?w=2000 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-230598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UNITED STATES &#8211; MARCH 24: Reese Witherspoon and former husband, Ryan Phillipe at the Seventy Fourth Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles, United States on March 24, 2002 &#8211; For the first time this year the Oscar show was held in its brand new home, the Kodak Theatre, located in the heart of Hollywood, California. (Photo by David LEFRANC\/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When the news initially broke, a \u201csource\u201d told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2023\/03\/24\/reese-witherspoon-jim-toth-divorcing-after-12-years-of-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Page Six<\/a><\/em> \u201cthere\u2019s no big scandal or drama, just two people who essentially became co-parents and don\u2019t really have any romantic feelings for each other anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But since a different source \u2013 which, please, take this with a grain of salt \u2013 told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/entertainment\/7715242\/truth-reese-witherspoon-jim-toths-divorce-midlife-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The U.S. Sun<\/a><\/em> the split was actually the result of Witherspoon and Toth no longer having anything in common post the<a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/reese-witherspoon-hello-sunshine-deal\/\"> sale of their Hello Sunshine company<\/a>, \u201ca real gut check moment for him and Reese,\u201d says the source.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis process of uncoupling really began in late 2021 when it became clear to everybody who knew both of them that they were itching for life apart from each other,\u201d\u00a0says the insider. \u201cThat money was rocket fuel to them, but it sent them in different directions and pretty quickly after that deal closed, the only real common ground they had was the raising of their son, Tennessee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey now had more money than either of them could ever figure out what to do with, and it was time to reassess,\u201d the source adds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"price-style\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/jennifer-aniston-reese-witherspoon-friends\/\">REESE WITHERSPOON RECALLS HER TIME WORKING ON THE \u201cFRIENDS\u201d SET WITH JENNIFER ANISTON<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_230597\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-230597\" style=\"width: 3634px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-230597 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-1469088505.jpg?resize=3634%2C4762\" alt=\"Reese Witherspoon\" width=\"3634\" height=\"4762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-1469088505.jpg?resize=3634%2C4762?w=3634 3634w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-1469088505.jpg?resize=3634%2C4762?w=229 229w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-1469088505.jpg?resize=3634%2C4762?w=768 768w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-1469088505.jpg?resize=3634%2C4762?w=781 781w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-1469088505.jpg?resize=3634%2C4762?w=1172 1172w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-1469088505.jpg?resize=3634%2C4762?w=1563 1563w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-1469088505.jpg?resize=3634%2C4762?w=400 400w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-1469088505.jpg?resize=3634%2C4762?w=155 155w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-1469088505.jpg?resize=3634%2C4762?w=2000 2000w, https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/GettyImages-1469088505.jpg?resize=3634%2C4762?w=3000 3000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-230597\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA &#8211; FEBRUARY 23: Reese Witherspoon arrives at the Los Angeles Premiere Of Prime Video&#8217;s &#8220;Daisy Jones &amp; The Six&#8221; at TCL Chinese Theatre on February 23, 2023 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz\/FilmMagic)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"price-style\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/reese-witherspoon-green-smoothie\/\">REESE WITHERSPOON JUST REVEALED HER GIGANTIC DELICIOUS MORNING SMOOTHIE RECIPE<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But this insider also alludes to Toth\u2019s change in behaviour being another reason for the split.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis personality, his attitude and his whole take on life really changed when he got out of the agency business and decided he was tired of that stuffy world and being in the service business in general.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCall it a midlife crisis if you want but that\u2019s when the tattoos, the chunky, weird jewellery, and dressing like somebody half his age really took hold,\u201d the source revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Again, this is all speculation. We hope Reese and Jim are OK.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"price-style\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/reese-witherspoon-panic-attacks-wild\/\">REESE WITHERSPOON SUFFERED PANIC ATTACKS FOR WEEKS BEFORE FILMING \u201cWILD\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":34102,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[36,35],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Possible Reason Behind Reese Witherspoon\u2019s Divorce<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Reese Witherspoon, 47, announced she and her husband of 12 years Jim Toth, 52, will be divorcing. 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