Reese Witherspoon Brought Her Lookalike Daughter As Her Date to the 2024 Critics’ Choice Awards

No amount of think pieces will ever truly put an end to the public’s fascination with celebrity offspring. Especially when the celebrity offspring in question looks exactly like their celebrity parent. What will Apple, Blue, , and Gene do with their potent cocktail of inherited privilege (beauty, riches, access to the best glam squads), we wonder? Can we really expect them to submit to the nine to five when the path to stardom looks so seductively smooth? Would we? It remains to be seen whether Ava Phillippe, the 24 year old daughter of Reese Witherspoon and her former husband Ryan Phillippe, will follow her mum and dad into acting, but she has proven herself adept at navigating the red carpet, which is surely step one.

The Berkeley graduate joined Reese at the 2024 Critics’ Choice Awards on Sunday night, giving the world another glimpse of just how much she . “Mother daughter date night,” Witherspoon said of their girls’ outing on Instagram, with a snap of their complementary outfits: black strapless Celine for Reese, black strapless Monique Lhuillier for Ava, plus two pairs of Christian Louboutin heels.

Even their make up, the work of Kelsey Deenihan, matched. It’s not Ava’s first foray into the spotlight, she’s dabbled in modeling, appearing in Rodarte lookbooks and Ivy Park campaigns. But the self described “ ” seems more inclined towards a different creative medium. Ava’s New Year’s resolution, as per an Instagram snap that shows her daubing paint onto a giant collage? “Make! More! Art!”.