A Field Guide to Reese Witherspoon

New Orleans native Reese Witherspoon has one of the longest and most enviable careers of any actress in Hollywood, and tomorrow she's celebrating her 43rd birthday. This ageless blonde babe has been teasing and tantalizing us on screen for nearly 30 years, and it's high time we took a look at some of her best, sexiest, and nudest moments captured on film!

After beginning her career as a child star in films like The Man in the Moon and Jack the Bear, Reese was at the center of the cult classic Freeway, heralding big things ahead for this sexy and talented young woman! In 1996, she became the object of Mark Wahlberg's obsession in Fear, showing off her beautiful body in a bikini!

Reese's next role announced cemented her status as an object of desire for men the world over for the rest of her career! In 1998's Twilight, Reese kicks off the flick as a young woman who has shunned her rich parents and headed off on a sex vacation with a long haired Liev Schreiber! In the opening minutes of the film, she goes topless for the very first time in a well-lit scene...

Moments later she gets up to snoop around in the room before being confronted by bounty hunter Paul Newman, who has been hired by her rich parents to bring her home...

Reese instantly set herself apart from her contemporaries by going topless on film just a few short years into her career. It was a bold choice at the time, but in hindsight, it's clearly what helped give her an edge on the competition. The following year she would star alongside future husband Ryan Phillippe in Cruel Intentions and she gave the best performance of her career as ambitious high schooler Tracy Flick in Alexander Payne's Election.

The sky was the limit for Reese from there with her taking the lead in the smash hit comedy Legally Blonde and its 2003 sequel, and found her winning an Oscar for her turn as June Carter Cash opposite Joaquin Phoenix's Johnny Cash in Walk the Line. She also showed plenty of cleavage when starring in the James L. Brooks directed rom-com How Do You Know?

She could have rested on her laurels and been content to never do another nude scene, but sixteen years after first going nude in Twilight, Reese returned to the world of nudity with her role in 2014's Wild. Reese stepped into the shoes of Cheryl Strayed, a depressed young woman who set out to hike the Pacific Coast Trail and learned something about herself along the way. She's gets nude a bunch of times in this flick, showing off after a shower as she checks her body for bruises, and we check it out for how good it looks sixteen years after her nude debut...

During some flashbacks to her wild child days, we get even better looks at her breasts as she sucks on a dude's finger...

And gets sexed up in bed, Color Me Badd style...

Most actresses would've shied away from such a sexual role at this point in their career, but Reese Witherspoon has never been "most actresses." We salute Reese on the eve of her 43rd birthday and here's to 43 more years of making movies and getting nude in them!

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All photos courtesy of MrSkin.com