Reese Witherspoon did not feel supported after her first pregnancy.

The actress gave birth to daughter Ava in 1999, just two months after her marriage to Ryan Phillippe, and they welcomed a son named Deacon in 2003 before they parted ways in 2006. The

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star

will always remember them. difficult months after the birth of her first child.

“I didn't get a lot of support with my first baby and figured out really early on that it wasn't going to work.

I tried to last for five months with Ava, not to sleep and start delirious.

I was lucky to have saved some money and didn't have to work, but it's really not a one-person job.

I would even say it's not a job for two people, ”she told Kristen Bell in an episode of her podcast

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.

A lucky mother

Now Ava and Deacon are grown up and Reese Witherspoon can finally breathe and just enjoy them as she watches Tennesse James grow up, her 8 year old son born from her union with Jim Toth.

“My God, I'm lucky to be their mother,” she captioned a photo of her surrounded by her two eldest children, posted on Instagram earlier this week.

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