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  • It's funny, it never occurred to me that a movie star would play me. But now that she [Reese Witherspoon] is playing me, it's like, of course, it couldn't be anyone else! I don't know if you've seen pictures of Reese and me and Reese and my daughter Bobbi, who's named after my mother, and also plays me. There's a kind of resemblance.

    "'Wild’s' Cheryl Strayed Becomes One With Reese Witherspoon". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. November 2014.