Reese Witherspoon says, ‘I don’t think my career would be possible’ in the age of AI and social media: ‘It’s a different world’

Reese Witherspoon’s big break came in 2001, when she was 25 years old, starring in Legally Blonde as the iconic Elle Woods. But the award-winning actress actually started modeling and doing local TV commercials when she was just 7 years old, and had her first major film role when she was just 14 years old, in 1991, for the coming-of-age drama The Man in the Moon.

Today, Witherspoon is the founder of media company Hello Sunshine and is worth about $400 million. She sold her company in...