--- title: Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Phillipe Post Photo of Kids description: Are these the children of Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon or clones? People are having a hard time deciding. canonical: https://time.com/5392534/ryan-phillippe-kids/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-09-11T15:05:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:46.880Z og:title: Reese Witherspoon's and Ryan Phillipe's Kids Are Clones og:description: Children or clones? 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(Photo by Ron Galella/WireImage)Ron Galella—WireImage by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 11, 2018 3:05 PM UTC Ryan Phillippe and [Reese Witherspoon](http://time.com/5226169/reese-witherspoon-jeopardy-category/) don’t have children, they basically have clones. [Witherspoon](http://time.com/4985673/reese-witherspoon-sexual-assault-director/) and Phillippe, who co-starred in _Cruel Intentions_ and married in 1999, had two children before they divorced in 2007\. Those children, Ava and Deacon, are now 19 and 14 respectively, and bear an uncanny resemblance to their famous parents. Phillippe posted a photo to Instagram posing with the two children, captioned “me n mine”, and the similarities are downright impressive. It looks like he either posted a throwback photo with Witherspoon—or the couple had some surprisingly strong genes (or really good clones). While fans of the actress may know that Ava is a mini-me version of her[ _Big Little Lies-_](http://time.com/5198145/reese-witherspoon-reacts-to-legally-blonde-dissertation/)starring mother, thanks to [Instagram photos](https://instagram.com/p/BZMY8ZSgDWu/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fembed) of the two together, Deacon’s resemblance to his father is just as striking. While fans can’t help but marvel at the similarities, Phillippe is nonplussed by all the attention. “Who else are they going to look like?“ he said in an [interview with _Entertainment Tonight_](https://www.etonline.com/news/219803%5Fexclusive%5Fryan%5Fphillippe%5Freese%5Fwitherspoon%5Fon%5Fembarrassing%5Ftheir%5Fkids%5Finterview) last year. “I always find that such a weird thing, like, \[Ava\] looks exactly like her mother, who else is she going to look like? It’s an odd thing that people fixate on that.” That’s just what someone would say if they were trying to throw people off the track of their advanced cloning system. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5392534/ryan-phillippe-kids/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5392534/ryan-phillippe-kids/"},"headline":"People Are Having a Hard Time Accepting That Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe's Kids Are Not Clones","datePublished":"2018-09-11T15:05:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:46.880Z","description":"Children or clones? 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