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Gwyneth Paltrow is the cover girl for the August issue of Vogue Magazine. August is always Vogue’s annual “Age Issue” and they usually pick someone in their 30s or 40s for it, thankfully. It’s not like they get the 21-year-old starlet-of-the-moment to pontificate on aging. The Age Issue is actually one of my favorites of the specialty issues, just because they usually profile really cool women to represent the older decades, 50s, 60s, 70s, etc. My least favorite? The Shape Issue. I find it patronizing who they choose to represent “petitie” and “full-figured” usually. Anyway, they got Gwyneth for the cover even though she’s got nothing but GOOP and her Goopy, Vitamin-D-deficient diet (and cookbook!) to promote – seriously, Iron Man 2 promotion is over. There’s no reason for her to have the cover other than she wanted to be photographed by her friend Mario Testino. Usually, I’m impressed by Testino, but this photo shoot is rather bland. Like Goopy herself. Anyway, the full article is here (and it‘s mostly about food and cooking), and here are some of the highlights:
Gwyneth’s cookbook has 144 recipes, is scheduled for publication in April 2011, and its title is My Father’s Daughter. The writer notes: “I discovered that My Father’s Daughter is nearly free from food phobias and from an exaggerated concern for health (with the possible exception of Paltrow’s notion that gluten, as in wheat, is bad for you). One of Paltrow’s favorite foods is French fries; she gives an oven-baked recipe and a deep-fried recipe—which she sensibly admits tastes much better because it’s fried. She loves pizza. She also loves foods that people generally consider healthful. Her recipes reflect the kind of cooking that Paltrow prepares for her family most nights when she and her husband stay home.”
What Gwyneth looks like in person: I noticed was that Gwyneth is considerably more beautiful in the flesh than in pictures. She’s an ectomorph (in the language of anthropometrics). You might call her “gangling”—stretched out, a bit taller and svelter and better muscled than you would think, especially in the crucial upper-arm area. She doesn’t look gangling in pictures. She has fine genes, good bones. Gwyneth has at least one personal trainer, works out for two hours a day, and owns a piece of the gym near her downtown Manhattan apartment. (Her business partner is Tracy Anderson, who appears in a Goop video.)
On making her own chicken stock: “That’s going to be yum,” she said. Gwyneth makes her own stock about once a month. “It makes such a huge difference in the food,” she preached.
Did Gwyenth hate any body part of her own? There was a brief pause. Gwyneth said, “I’ll have to give that a little thought.” Her voice had changed. It was as though a cloud had passed over the sun.
Gwyneth‘s introduction to her cookbook: “I always feel closest to my father, who was the love of my life until his death in 2002, when I am in the kitchen. I can still hear him over my shoulder, heckling me, telling me to be careful with my knife, moaning with pleasure over a bite of something in only the way a Jew from Long Island can, his shoulders doing most of the talking. I will never forget how concentrated he looked in the kitchen….It was as if the deliciousness of the food would convey the love he felt in direct proportion….Health food was never really on the agenda, it was about fun and deliciousness and togetherness….The most striking aspect about his cooking was how much joy he derived from feeding people that he loved. I mean, genuine, bursting happiness….This book is meant to channel the ethos of my father by sharing the greatest gifts that he imparted to me. Invest in what’s real. Clean as you go. Drink while you cook. Make it fun. It doesn’t have to be complicated. It will be what it will be.”
[From Vogue]
Eh. The piece is very, very, very far from a competent interview, or even a basic “What’s your favorite color?” interview. It’s basically just the writer fanboying all over his crush and how she’s so food-competent. Blah. Just to be fair, though, it sounds like Gwyneth did not want to talk about anything other than food, as if she thinks that her thoughts on chicken stock should be enough to earn her a Vogue cover. And the cookbook doesn’t come out for another nine months! This kind of early promotion is crazy.
UPDATE: Here’s Gwyneth’s Vogue video. God, I just hate her voice. She just sounds so f-cking snotty.
Vogue cover courtesy of Vogue online, all photos by Mario Testino.
Written by Kaiser
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In her 30′s and in several PSDs! lol.
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What Goopy is selling I’m not buying. This chick annoys me to no end, kinda like Ina Garten from the Food Network.
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her face looks different– like she’s had some work done, probably just botox/fillers but she looks a LOT younger than normal.
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She looks great!! I think that the photo shot makes her look really pretty. She really is a beautiful woman. Just me.
And you are right she is not “bringing it”. Boring stuff about cooking. Not even one word about how Chris loves her, how she sleeps with her children, etc. Nothing like that. Shame on her
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Not a big GP fan, but I believe the concept behind the piece (and the other interviews for the Age issue) will be about changing careers/starting anew at each age – see the left side of the cover shot for the headlines for the other articles and the right side for GP’s article. Perhaps that’s why they are talking to her about food, Goop, etc.?
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OK, they Photoshopped the hell outta here in that B&W picture. She looks like a high school girl.
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Is the princess of Hollywood still considered a working thespian. I wouldn’t want to talk about my philandering hubby either, and make up, great lighting, and Photoshop does wonders for som people
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lem and Lynnie, I couldn’t agree more.
she looks years younger in these pics than she does in pap/candid shots.
and yeah, that B&W pic looks like they took her HS face and put it on her current body.
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Who really gives a shit about cooking? Is that all she has to do with her life now? I can’t think of many more boring things than devoting my life to kitchen drudgery…
Just once I would like to see Gwyneth as she would look with her natural brown hair and brown eyes. The blonde is pretty but it’s tired.
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I don’t think there is anything bland about this shoot–she looks gorgeous!
Probably we’re just so accustomed to seeing scandalous, sexy, provocative shoots that a lovely, respectable, classy, down-to-earthy completely wholesome angle seems boring.
I like it. It’s refreshing and she looks beautiful.
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She looks really pretty and great for her age.
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How can you be ‘Queen of the Kitchen’ if you don’t eat? Gimme a freakin break! This woman is delusional.
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She’s pretty. Annoying, but pretty.
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Who the fuck needs a recipe for french fries?
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How obnoxious! Terribly dull photoshoot. She is soo airbrushed here and the cooking thing? SHUT UP GOOPY. I hate when ppl are on magazine covers with nothing to promote( cough Blake Lively cough)
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I love the kitchen photo shoot. I DEMAND MORE HIGH FASHION WHILE COOKING. Awesome. I mean it.
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Shawna- try the Delicious Miss Dahl on the Beeb. If you live in the States, you might have to watch it on youtube. You’ll love it. x
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moaning with pleasure over a bite of something in only the way a Jew from Long Island can
???? Moaning with pleasure? sounds like she was doing alot more than biting into something.
What a ridiculous thing to say.This chick is truly obnoxious, she nauseates me.
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@ AmandaHugandKiss– thank you for making me lol (#14)
and @EileenYover, my sentiments exactly
i also thought that in the top photo (not the cover, the one where she’s eating sth), it looks like a frame from one of the inexperienced ANTM models who are always trying too hard
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“Did Gwyenth hate any body part of her own? There was a brief pause. Gwyneth said, “I’ll have to give that a little thought.” Her voice had changed. It was as though a cloud had passed over the sun.”
Oh hell, that’s funny.
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“Invest in what’s real.”
Who the hell talks like that? Go away, Gwyneth! (On second thought, don’t. We like making fun of you.)
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@ snowball: you mocked the exact quote i was going to mock – damn you!
in other thoughts, how can someone who pontificates against gluten be in favor of deep-fried anything? it isn’t fried in angels’ tears.
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I love these pictures and can’t wait for my August Vogue to come in the mail. I will definitely be buying her cookbook when it comes out. I have made several recipes from the Goop newsletter and they have all been fabulous!
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“Who really gives a shit about cooking? Is that all she has to do with her life now? I can’t think of many more boring things than devoting my life to kitchen drudgery…”
Well, that’s kind of rude, Gwen. I am no fan of Goopy, but your idea of “drudgery” is my idea of zen. Cooking can be a creative outlet. Just last night I made two batches of homemade mozzarella to put on the homemade pizza I’ll be making for dinner tomorrow night (far, far superior to any frozen or chain store pizza).
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I cant help it. I love gwennie. I love that photoshoot too.
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“Did Gwyenth hate any body part of her own? There was a brief pause. Gwyneth said, “I’ll have to give that a little thought.” Her voice had changed. It was as though a cloud had passed over the sun.”
Hmm, I’ll answer for her, thank you.
“I hate my saggy boobs.”
“I detest my freckles and plain-Jane face.
UGh, anyone see an older movie with GOOP and Jennifer Jason-Leigh? The movie was called ‘The Anniversary” or something..
Goop wears no visible makeup, she is truly plain.
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I give up.. she doesn’t go away. Ugh..
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I find it hard to dislike an actress that has channeled her good sense and good upbringing into something other than attending parties in between stints in rehab. I give her credit for trying to live a balanced life, indulging in activities that people completely take for granted these days (healthy eating, exercise, raising children) and doing all of this in the very unhealthy environment of Hollywood and the public eye (a very judgmental one at that). I would take what you think is a sanctimonious know-it all that feeds her family over a drug-addled party-girl that only feeds an addiction ANY DAY!
Don’t like what she’s serving? Don’t read the magazine articles, don’t visit her website, don’t watch her movies.
Everyone condemns young women like Lindsay Lohan for wasting her life away with drugs and alcohol and for bringing nothing good to herself and others. Yet I see almost the same attitude and vitriol towards a woman like Gwyneth Paltrow, who has avoided almost all of those pitfalls but deigns to enjoy living the good life and dropping some names?
I am simply asking for some perspective here. Mock and denigrate all you want, the web is a wonderful outlet for anonymous ranting, but expect confusion from visitors like me with most of your comments; if you don’t like a “Lindsay” or a “Gwyneth”, then what the hell kind of celebrity are you lookin’ for?
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Oh! I want those jeans…And I would look good in those jeans … snif
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Let’s just give it a rest people. She isn’t the devil like Bono. Now him I could bash on all day.
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i agree, hstl1, bono is so irritating. he’s kind of like the male goopy…if goopy had talent.
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Her dress has the same pattern as whatever she’s frying in the frying pan in the 2nd picture not counting the cover!
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I want to see fashion models on the covers of the fashion mags, not overexposed celebs. Twiggy would be a good choice; if movie stars want more attention, why don’t they make better movies and leave fashion to others.
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@Doseofreality, you’re dang right! I like Gwyneth for peddling the saner side of celebrity. I’m sick of trash like Lohan muddying my online waters.
I will BUY Goopy’s cookbook.
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i always thought that Gwyneth had sth Grace-Kelly-ish about her and in my opinion she looks beautiful in these pictures. But i am seriously surprised that she promotes a cookbook when she herself clearly has nutritional issues (Vitamin D deficiency???)
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What’s this “In her 30′s” and in the kitchen horseshit? Like she’s accomplished something a) outstanding at a b) ridiculously advanced age.
“Women and girls all over the world are in kitchens! Right now! They have been for centuries!” Put that on the cover of Vogue.
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“age issue”? Isn’t she only like 35-ish?
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I’m a long time, very good cook and I like others have mentioned would NOT buy a cookbook *ghostwritten* by someone who doesn’t eat…or at least doesn’t eat something approaching a normal, varied diet. I’m sure as heck not going to put my hard earned money into the pocket of a celebrity who promotes “fasting” and all sorts of rubbish (which then help along her Vit D deficiency as well as who knows what else) to other women.
That and she’s annoying as hell (LOL).
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making her own chicken stock (which, btw, is not difficult)? This is a woman who used to be a bit holier than thou vegan.
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What is up with her teeth? She looks like she had major caps.
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She looks very young in these pictures.
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Calling her father the “love of her life”? That’s just creepy.
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I agree with comment above. Creepy is the word.
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That part with her father being the love of her life is creepy, no doubt. But its showbiz after all and such thing happen more often than ud like to believe. Incest, for example, is smth common in showbiz/Hollywood.
On the other hand shes nothing but a talentless plain Jane. She is famous thanks to her parents. Case closed.
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Bleh. What is with the crotch shot? I so didn’t need to see that.
I think she is pretty and a perfectly weird, annoying, but basically harmless person. And a good actress. She is managing to stay relevant without resorting to anything tawdry – good for her.
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Doesn’t seem like she is qualified to promote a cookbook since she has been diagnosed with a severe vitamin D deficiency!! She does look really good though in spite of it. I did like her in the movie Proof.
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I was giving Goopy the side-eye and then she said her beloved Dad was moaning with pleasure and I recoiled and gave myself a neck strain.
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Dear Goopy,
Please do us all a favor and shut the fuck up.
Seriously, anyone could look good if they had personal trainers/gyms, botox at hand, and enough spare time to think the world cares about their food choices and write a cookbook about it.
She annoys me beyond belief!
I’d rather read about Megan Fox at this point than hear about her!
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This chick obviously moans with pleasure at the sound of her own voice, at the sight of her own photos…she’s her number one fan and no one does it better than she does.
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I’ve got to tell you, her self absorption and fascination with herself is sort of stunning. Like jaw dropping. I put myself through college and pharmacy school working my butt off (like many many people do!!), had children and lost my husband to a rare cancer noone saw coming. I luckily have great parents and in-laws who help me with my 3 toddlers since I have to work part time to not lose my house. I lost my baby weight from breast feeding (cheaper than formula) and sheer stress. I mean it melted off of me to the point where I had to make myself eat. I have NO help whatsoever (besides extended family) while this loonie has an entire staff at her fingertips. Gwynnie honey, if you do laundry for four active people, cook, mop and wax all the floors, and do all the lawn maintenance, losing weight is a CINCH! Trust me. I don’t understand why she finds herself so fascinating and why she would assume anyone else would. She must have NOTHING to do all day. Her entire vapid life of privelege and ease is a &;%$#@*%$ joke. I wish she would please just go away. She should feel lucky her kids are healthy and the sun is shining. Unfortunately she is still being employed once a year in movies which is shocking since she doesn’t seem to be in demand at all. I know of no other “actresses” who constantly inform the public of their doings. They just work and take care of their families. Jesus. I just want her to live one day of my life. She would never ever survive it. She doesn’t have my strength. Not even and ounce of it. WORD.
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