Reese Witherspoon Reveals Her Trash Obsession

Reese Witherspoon is busy hitting the talk show circuit to talk about her new film, Penelope, which hits theaters today. Yesterday she paid a visit to Ellen DeGeneres and talked about a surprise obsession with garbage.

She admitted, "I like to throw a lot of things away. Particularly at Christmas, it makes me a little crazy when the trash is overflowing. So then I put on rubber boots and I literally get into the trash can and I stomp on the trash and [my son] Deacon thinks it’s so great. We call me ‘the mommy trash compactor.’"

She added, “Sometimes I'll sneak in and look at the neighbor's garbage cans and see if it's kind of empty. I'll wait literally until the middle of the night when the children are asleep and I'll take my extra garbage and I'll put it in the can.”