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Reese Witherspoon’s Son Doesn’t Call Her ‘Mom’ — But This Nickname Instead

Reese Witherspoon reveals her son Tennessee's unique nickname for her, 'Morty,' and shares other names she goes by

In a Wednesday, May 7, Instagram post detailing the different names she goes by, Witherspoon, 49, shared the interesting fact that her youngest child, Tennessee, 12, doesn’t call her “Mom” — but instead prefers the nickname “Morty.” “*no clue why,” she added of her son’s moniker for her in the post, which also revealed she goes by her real name, Laura Jeanne, when it comes to government business. She reposted her production company Hello Sunshine’s quote from The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood via her Instagram Story on Saturday, March 15, which read, “I spent a lot of my life worrying about being weird, and now I’m realizing it could be my superpower.” Witherspoon, for her part, wrote, “I love this!”

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