Washington, Mar 20 : Hollywood actress Reese Witherspoon has been forced to give up pork, after buying her young daughter a pet pig.

Witherspoon’s nine-year-old Ava has fallen in love with the pig, and named him after legendary civil rights leader Booker T. Washington.

She has asked the Walk the Line actress to banish all pig products from the household.

"His name''s Booker T. Washington - my daughter is studying American history. She won''t eat pork, she won''t eat bacon, and I have to be very careful with what I eat," Contactmusic quoted her as saying.

Witherspoon has also revealed that her new movie ''''Monsters vs Aliens'''' brought out her five-year-old son Deacon''''s violent tendencies.

In the movie, the blonde actress voices the character of Susan, a woman who swells to 42ft 11ins tall, and then helps save the planet from an alien invasion.

She revealed that her son wanted to kill things after watching her new movie. (ANI)