Reese Witherspoon, still recovering from her split from Ryan Phillippe, says it’s too soon to think about remarrying.

“There are things in my life that are hard to reconcile, like divorce,” the mother-of-two tells Parade magazine. “Sometimes it is very difficult to make sense of how it could possibly happen. Laying blame is so easy.”

Yet the 32-year-old actress says instead of finding fault, she focuses on moving forward.

“When you make wrong choices, you have to take responsibility for them: ‘What part of this do I own?’” she says. “I struggle to figure out what made me make those choices. All I can hope for is that I’ve learned something from it and won’t make the same choices again.”

“Family is all we have in life, but I don’t know how I feel about marriage,” says the Four Christmases star, who has been dating Jake Gyllenhaal off-and-on since last year. “Obviously, I’m not far enough out of being married to think about doing it again. You sort of reconstitute your family. You find a family with people who come into your life for a reason.”

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• 2007: Reese %26#38; Ryan move on with costars

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Forget buying diamonds or shoes, Jake. Reese Witherspoon only has two things on her Christmas wish list: a chicken coop, and someone to build it for her.

“Oh, I want someone to build me a good chicken coop … like a man who can just get down there and build it … ooh,” the actress, who dates Jake Gyllenhaal, tells USA Today.

Witherspoon, who stars in the upcoming comedy Four Christmases with Vince Vaughn, says Christmas at her house this year will offer a chance to feast on her southern specialities - turnip greens, pecan-coated sweet potatoes and sugar-baked ham - and escape to the family farm outside of Los Angeles with kids Ava, 9, and Deacon, 5.

Witherspoon’s other family Christmas plans include caroling around the tree and watching Ava and Deacon perform in a Christmas Eve pageant.

Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe finalized their divorce in June.

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• 2003: Reese talks about her Southern roots!

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Nashville native Reese Witherspoon is the first presenter announced for the Country Music Association Awards held next month in Music City.

Witherspoon presented at the 2005 CMA Awards with Joaquin Phoenix, her costar in the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, for which she won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as June Carter Cash.

Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood will co-host the 42nd Annual CMA Awards, airing live from Nashville on Nov. 12 at 8-11 p.m. EST on ABC. Performers will include Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, Alan Jackson, Taylor Swift, the Eagles and Sugarland.

- Eileen Finan

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Buzz Aldrin may have been the second man on the moon, but he’s also got his eyes set on Hollywood - especially Reese Witherspoon.

The former astronaut, 78, is in talks for a proposed film about the battles he faced after his Apollo flight - and his subsequent love story, he told reporters Thursday at the New York premiere of the animated 3-D feature Fly Me to the Moon. Aldrin did voice work for the film.

As for casting the role of his wife of 20 years, Lois, Aldrin envisions Oscar-winner Witherspoon, 32.

“Lois likes Reese Witherspoon,” he says, “because she played a similar part in Walk the Line.”

“My experiences post-flight were ones of not being very productive for quite awhile - depression and alcoholism, things like that,” says Aldrin. “I was trying to recover from that and ran into %26#91;Lois%26#93; afterwards.”

Asked if Lois straightened him out, Aldrin responded with a laugh. “Nah,” he insists, “I was already straight.”

Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe’s divorce was finalized Thursday, Los Angeles court records show, indicating that financial and custody settlements have been reached.

Details weren’t immediately available, however, the ex-couple have continually sought a shared custody arrangement over children Ava, 8, and Deacon, 4.

The documents, dated June 12, only read: “%26#91;The court finds%26#93; the parties have settled all their remaining issues in these proceedings.”

Witherspoon is currently dating Jake Gyllenhaal, while Phillippe, 33, recently stepped out with Australian actress Abbie Cornish, 25.

The couple first met when a mutual friend brought Phillippe to Witherspoon’s 21st-birthday party. Two years later, after they had costarred in 1999’s Cruel Intentions, he proposed.

They married in June 1999 and had Ava three months later.

Rep for Witherspoon and Phillippe weren’t immediately available for comment.