This story might be too good to be true, but I tend to think there’s a whiff of plausibility to it. So, after the he-said/she-said breakup of Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish, Ryan is trying to prove that he can still get the best ladies. Trouble is, most women think he’s kind of douchey. Even women who don’t have any idea who he is, exactly. Like my favorite model, Dutch beauty Doutzen Kroes, who, according to Radar, was basically like “thanks but no thanks” when Ryan asked to be introduced to her. After Doutzen, Ryan actually managed to get an audience with Victoria’s Secret model Selita Ebanks, but Radar makes it sound like she was yawning the whole time. For the pièce de résistance, Ryan went and tried to hookup with his rumored hookup (back when he was with Abbie) Hayden Panettiere. Hayden has a boyfriend now, so she’s all “no thanks” too! Chuckle.

Fresh from his breakup with Abbie Cornish, Ryan Phillippe wasted no time trying to make sure he wouldn’t be lonely but immediately struck out with two supermodels. It happened shortly after the breakup at New York’s Fashion Week, RadarOnline.com learned exclusively.

The Crash star asked to be introduced to Victoria’s Secret supermodel Doutzen Kroes at a fashion bash, a source told RadarOnline.com. “He saw her across the room and asked someone who knew her to introduce them.

“When someone mentioned Ryan’s name to Doutzen, she had no idea who he was. She was polite and said hello, but she wasn’t interested at all,” said the source.

Strike One., Ryan.

Phillippe’s second strike came after he fixated on another Victoria’s Secret supermodel — Selita Ebanks. “They met up while at the Standard Hotel for an afterparty,” an eyewitness told RadarOnline.com, “They were friendly,” but no sparks, and not for a lack of effort on Ryan’s part.

The eyewitness told RadarOnline.com that Ryan was making it VERY clear he wanted to do more than talk but his advances went unreturned and at the end of the night, “Selita and Ryan didn’t even exchange phone numbers,” said our witness.

“Ryan’s single now and he’s just going after every famous woman he comes across,” a source close to Phillippe laughed to RadarOnline.com. He even chatted up Hayden Panettiere at an afterparty at Simyone Lounge.

“Hayden let Ryan pull her away from her table to chat more privately in a corner. They seemed to be enjoying each other’s company, but Hayden wasn’t responding to Ryan’s flirty advances,” said one onlooker. Perhaps that’s because Panettiere’s current boyfriend is a 6”6’ Ukranian boxer named Wladimir Klitschko.

We could call that Strike Three for Ryan but we’ll be kind.

So what’s the problem? One source told RadarOnline.com that Ryan “has a bad habit of constantly mentioning ‘my ex-wife’ (Reese Witherspoon). Women he meets think he’s hung up on Reese still, given how much he talks about her.”

Well, who can blame him.

[From Radar]

Oh, that’s an interesting piece of information! Ryan is still hung up on Reese… I’m not sure about that. Yes, I’ll buy that Reese and Ryan are still very much in each other’s lives, but is either of them still into the other? Well, there was that rumor the day after Cornish announced the split which basically amounted to Abbie fearing that Ryan and Reese were still hittin’ it. Just my take: Ryan would be up for revisiting his relationship with Reese, but Reese is probably much too proud to go back. That being said, I don’t think Ryan is “hung up” on Reese either – I think he’s just dumb enough to think that name-checking his ex-wife might get him laid.