Style icon, red carpet favourite, Oscar-winning actress and mother-of-two, this month's beauty icon has crammed so much into her 31 years and, despite a hectic A-lifestyle and refusal to hire a nanny - 'People often ask me who my chef and nanny are and I say, "Me!" I love being a hands-on mother,' - she still doesn't look a day over 16!

Read on to find out just some of the reasons we're crowning Reese Witherspoon a handbag Beauty Icon.