Following your dreams, lifting up women in Hollywood, and raising well-rounded kids in the public eye — Reese Witherspoon has done it all! Like Elle Woods would say, “What, like it’s hard?” In actuality,

Reese Witherspoon got candid about the highs and lows of navigating motherhood in Hollywood in an Instagram post on Thursday.

Reese Witherspoon reflected on the sacrifices she made in her career as mother to her three children and why some moments brought her to tears.