Reese Witherspoon celebrated Malala Yousafzai's Nobel peace award by accepting an award for her own charitable efforts with the Malala Fund.
The 38-year-old actress, who believes the 17-year-old youngest Nobel prize winning education activist to be her role model, said that she along with her daughter Ava, who had fist brought the teenager to her notice, had the opportunity to meet her, People magazine reported.
The Oscar winning star added that her 15-year-old daughter, who too was interested in helping women worldwide, and Yousafzai sat side by side at dinner as they discussed school and their life goals, and Ava was "just in awe."
Witherspoon was addressing the audience at Variety's Power of Women event, which also included fellow honorees Viola Davis, Jane Fonda, Jennifer Lopez and Universal Pictures chairman Donna Langley.
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