--- title: Reese Witherspoon Decries 'Cruel' Treatment of Renee Zellweger description: Calls sniping "cruel" canonical: https://time.com/3597437/reese-witherspoon-renee-zellwegger-hollywood-reporter/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-20T16:01:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:56:20.238Z og:title: Reese Witherspoon Decries 'Cruel' Treatment of Renee Zellweger og:description: Calls sniping "cruel" og:url: https://time.com/3597437/reese-witherspoon-renee-zellwegger-hollywood-reporter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt54797ca0a932c30f/698769ef06f2c118103325bc/reese-witherspoon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2284 og:image:height: 1285 og:image:alt: Actress Reese Witherspoon attends the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Graydon Carter on March 2, 2014 in West Hollywood. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Reese Witherspoon Decries 'Cruel' Treatment of Renee Zellweger twitter:description: Calls sniping "cruel" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt54797ca0a932c30f/698769ef06f2c118103325bc/reese-witherspoon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Reese Witherspoon Sticks Up For Renee Zellweger After Face-Shaming > Sponsored content. 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David Livingston—Getty Images  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Nov 20, 2014 4:01 PM UTC Reese Witherspoon is very disappointed in everyone who participated in the kerfuffle over Renee Zellweger’s face. In the [The Hollywood Reporter](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/reese-witherspoon-julianne-moore-actress-749881?)‘s annual actress round-table with Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Amy Adams, Hilary Swank, Patricia Arquette and Felicity Jones, the conversation turned to Renee Zellweger’s face-shaming last month. Witherspoon stuck up for Zellweger: --- > “” --- Later in the interview, when she was asked if there was a contemporary woman she wanted to play, Witherspoon said, “Beyonce.” \[[THR](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/reese-witherspoon-julianne-moore-actress-749881?)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3597437/reese-witherspoon-renee-zellwegger-hollywood-reporter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3597437/reese-witherspoon-renee-zellwegger-hollywood-reporter/"},"headline":"Reese Witherspoon Sticks Up For Renee Zellweger After Face-Shaming","datePublished":"2014-11-20T16:01:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:56:20.238Z","description":"Calls sniping \"cruel\"","url":"https://time.com/3597437/reese-witherspoon-renee-zellwegger-hollywood-reporter/","keywords":["Living","celebrities","beauty","Hollywood","plastic surgery","Reese Witherspoon","Face","amy adams","Patricia Arquette"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt54797ca0a932c30f/698769ef06f2c118103325bc/reese-witherspoon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt54797ca0a932c30f/698769ef06f2c118103325bc/reese-witherspoon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Actress Reese Witherspoon attends the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Graydon Carter on March 2, 2014 in West Hollywood.","caption":"Actress Reese Witherspoon attends the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Graydon Carter on March 2, 2014 in West Hollywood.","creditText":"David Livingston—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3597437/reese-witherspoon-renee-zellwegger-hollywood-reporter/","name":"Reese Witherspoon Sticks Up For Renee Zellweger After Face-Shaming"}}]}] ```