Reese Witherspoon is not your America’s Sweetheart. Maybe she was at one time, but that ended as soon as she drunkenly mouthed off to a police officer in Georgia. Ever since then, she’s been “leaning in” to her new persona of the anti-sweetheart. Perhaps she’s always been this person and now she’s just owning it more and more. So, should we hold that against her? Does every woman have to aim to please? Does every wife have to be dutiful and submissive? Not at all. But would it hurt to be mildly pleasant to your husband’s coworkers?

Maybe the devil really does wear Prada. That’s certainly the sentiment going around CAA’s offices when Reese Witherspoon drops by.

“Reese is anything but sweet,” says a source inside CAA, where Reese’s husband Jim Toth is a high-powered agent. But while the CAA crew is accustomed to their fair share of A-list visits, Reese is the only one making employees scatter with her icy attitude.

“The staff are terrified of rubbing her the wrong way, so they bend over backwards to please her!” admits the insider, revealing that Reese always likes her favorite brands of tea, bottled water and juice to be on hand. But don’t expect to receive a please or thank you. “She won’t ever take off her sunglasses because she doesn’t want anyone to make eye contact.”

Jim Toth “doesn’t want his coworkers to see it, because he’s such a bigwig. He wants the staff to think that he has the upper hand but it’s obvious she wears the pants.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition]

We should note that Reese is also a CAA client, in addition to being the wife of one of the major agents. I would imagine all of the CAA employees have to scurry around to meet every whim of one of their A-list clients, and it gets a little bit extra when that client is married to one of the agents. But still, can’t you see it? Reese comes storming in, still wearing her sunglasses, and hisses at the first peasant, “Iced tea, NOW.” She takes in the room and snaps, “You do not meet my gaze, bitch.”

And in case you’re wondering about the validity of Star’s assessment of Jim and Reese’s marriage, just take another look at Reese and Jim’s arrest video and how Jim is flat-out embarrassed by Reese’s crazy, drunk diva behavior. She’s the mess and he’s the enabler/handler.

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