Oliver Haarmann, a German banker, is presently dating the actress and mother of three. According to Reese Witherspoon, the demise of romantic comedies has made dating more difficult for younger people. In a recent appearance on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast, the 49-year-old actress from Legally Blonde made the assertion. “Over the last ten or fifteen years, there has been this decline in rom-coms or big movie stars doing rom-coms,” she stated. “But we learned about social dynamics there.” According to Witherspoon, young people were taught how to approach relationships through romantic movies and coming-of-age television.
She included Young Sheldon, The Goldbergs, and Everybody Hates Chris as examples of “the show you watched when you were 11, 12, or 13 made you imagine dating skills.” Shepard, 50, concurred, stating that guys particularly gain from witnessing instances of vulnerability on TV. He remarked, “Someone needs to tell you that everyone is equally afraid of it and you just gotta do it.” “We started saying rom-coms are cringey, but that’s actually where we learned how to relate from Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan,” continued Witherspoon, who has starred in a number of romantic comedies herself, including Sweet Home Alabama and Your Place or Mine.
The actress is presently dating German financier Oliver Haarmann and has three children: Tennessee, 13, with former husband Jim Toth, and Ava, 26, and Deacon, 21, with former husband Ryan Phillippe.
