Gwyneth Paltrow confesses to “ironic” insecurities, perfectionism

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Oh, happy day. You lucky bitches get TWO posts about Dame Gwyneth today. CB already covered some of the Goop stuff earlier today – Gwyneth talking about how much she works out while quietly judging you for not working out two hours every day while maintaining an 800 calorie diet (seriously, that’s the Tracy Anderson Method). I’ve just been watching Gwyneth’s appearance on Good Morning America, and rolling my eyes. My absolutely favorite part is the beginning where GMA compiled all of Gwyneth’s awards show singing appearances and it was like the producers were totally passive aggressive and chose the worst pieces to clip together. Hilarious. Take it away, GOOP!

I always forget how terrible her voice is. Like, her speaking voice. When I’m reading an interview with her or something, I can recall her snotty, annoying voice, but for some reason, the memory of it isn’t as bad as the reality of it. And of course her Very Dear Friend Mario Batali had to give her a little introduction. Dame Gwyneth thinks she’s winning us over. She thinks she’s the Kate Middleton of America (And Britain! And Spain!).

In other Goop news, she just gave an interview to USA Today (via Yahoo) to promote her book. It’s kind of epic… the piece is called “Gwyneth Paltrow thinks she is ‘deeply flawed’”. Like, ZOMG BREAKING NEWS!!!!! Eat this up, peasants:

The 38-year-old actress – who has children Apple, six, and Moses, five, with husband Chris Martin – claims she is too much of a perfectionist and considers herself a “normal mother” like any other parent with a career.

She said: “One of my most negative qualities is the perfectionism that I have, and I think that I unconsciously project that because it comes from self-doubt and insecurity and that’s the ironic part. I’m so deeply flawed. I’m just a normal mother with the same struggles as any other mother who’s trying to do everything at once and trying to be a wife and maintain a relationship. There’s absolutely nothing perfect about my life, but I just try hard.”

The blonde beauty was once famous for her strict food regime, following a macrobiotic diet – focusing on grains and local vegetables while avoiding processed items – but she has now relaxed and admits her old eating habits now seem “alien” to her.

She added: “I haven’t been macrobiotic in seven years, so it seems sort of foreign at this point. Although, a lot of the principles, like trying to eat whole foods and homemade foods and local foods and seasonal foods, that’s still very much a part of the way I think about food.”

Gwyneth is releasing her own cookbook, entitled ‘My Father’s Daughter’, which is inspired by the meals she enjoyed with her late father Bruce Paltrow and she promises the recipes are ideal for family life.

She said in an interview with the USA Today newspaper: “It’s American family food; it’s very accessible and easy to make. It’s mostly on the healthier side, although there are definitely some guilty pleasures in there.”

[From USA Today via Yahoo]

What’s with all of these women claiming to be “perfectionists” lately? Emma Watson did it too – Emma dropped out of college because she was so “perfectionist” and now Gwyneth is giving the same excuse (in a ham-fisted way) for explaining why she’s such pretentious, sanctimonious bitch. But seriously, analyze this statement: “One of my most negative qualities is the perfectionism that I have, and I think that I unconsciously project that because it comes from self-doubt and insecurity and that’s the ironic part.” First: She’s only ironically perfect! Second: I think she’s trying to say that she tries to come across as so (ironically) perfect because she’s deeply insecure? Really, Goop? Or is it that you suffer from hyper-narcissism and you just pretend to be “flawed” because you think more peasants will buy your book? Oh, Goop. You are a riddle wrapped in enigma, covered in pretension, dipped in sanctimony, left out to dry on the rack of inanity and then packaged in vitamin deficiency.

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  1. Jaded says:

    “You are a riddle wrapped in enigma, covered in pretension, dipped in sanctimony, left out to dry on the rack of inanity and then packaged in vitamin deficiency”…with a side order of botox….

  2. esblondie says:

    First time commenting on the Goop. I love her; don’t care what you guys say. Yeah, I said it.

  3. Quest says:

    “One of my most negative qualities is the perfectionism …. it comes from self-doubt and insecurity and that’s the ironic part.” – Goopster

    Sounds like a job interview or something.

    I say: Guilt, guilt, guilt…nobody is perfect and not everyone has time on their hands like our fair Goopy to workout all those hours while counting calories… we have things like work, stress, kids, husbands, pets, cooking, cleaning, bad hair days, bad-day days and all that life throws at us

  4. Cleo says:

    I think perfectionism comes from a natural competitive streak not form “insecurity” or “self doubt” or has everyone just decided to change the meaning of oft-used words like “sanguine.”

  5. meg says:

    Perfectionism isn’t an admirable trait. These chicks try to make it the personality version of “I just have a fast metabolism”.

  6. liz says:

    “One of my most negative qualities is the perfectionism.”

    Sheesh, that read like

    what I hate most about myself is my perfection. someone give her some financial problems, please.

  7. brin says:

    No need to self-diagnose, Goop, we got it.

  8. jessiee says:

    I rarely comment on other people’s comments, but @Jaded — you are my new personal hero. That was beautiful! 😉

  9. AngelMay says:

    Ok now I’m back to feeling kind of bad for her. She is just so desperate for everyone’s approval. Almost like a more sophisticted Leann Rimes. Why not just enjoy her kids and her money and her houses. It’s like she has to shove herself down the collective throat.

    And that beige dress is not doing you any favors, missy.

  10. Lisa says:

    She is looking more and more like her creepy-looking trainer. I used to really like her, but she’s starting to irritate me a bit now.

  11. whatyousay?! says:

    @quest

    …she has all of that stuff too.

  12. whatyousay?! says:

    @ cleo

    anorexics and bulimics are often perfectionists

    ..an eating disorder caused by insecurity because they do not think they are perfect as they should be.

  13. francesca says:

    Can we talk about her face?? WTH?

  14. Question says:

    What a year its been for Gwennie? asks George. Did I miss something? She had a movie that bombed! So what if she sang a couple times as a guest star on a TV show. She is desparately trying to be a singer, which no one is buying, and now she’s desparately trying to be a cook? Come on! Talk about pretend accomplishments. No one bought her book or watched her movie, people! What a year its been indeed.

  15. Sigh. says:

    @ meg “Perfectionism isn’t an admirable trait. These chicks try to make it the personality version of ‘I just have a fast metabolism.'”

    HA! Or: “I just…*whimper*…I love too much.”

    I really don’t outright dislike Gwynsies, but I think her “Anti-Ice Queen” campaign is running off of the rails. Note the E!online link below: “Gwyneth Paltrow Continues Her ‘I’m Just a Normal Housewife’ Tour.”

    Is the cookbook out yet? Do I need to put my local fishmonger and duck bacon dealer on speed dial?

  16. danielle says:

    Lmao at your final sentence Kaiser! But now, a positive – she looks great in the top shot. That’s all I’ve got.

  17. Rita says:

    Will someone tell Goopy that the hole is deep enough? Stop digging.

  18. Amanda says:

    It’s like a job interview and they ask you what your biggest flaw is and you have to try and come up with something that isn’t really a flaw and makes you sound like you would be a really productive employee. So, you (like everyone else) says “I’m a perfectionist”. Next, she’s going to say “She works too hard”.

  19. Annaloo says:

    WAKE THE F*CK UP GWYNNIE. People are struggling with their bills, moving back in with their parents or families, going without doctor visits…HER LIFE IS LEISURE.. this girl wouldn’t know what to do with ONE DAY’S worth of honest work that will mess up your manicure, sweat up your hair and possibly smell a bad odor.

    She really needs to be slapped. HARD.

  20. Tanya says:

    Wow… I feel like I need to douche my brain after reading that…

  21. divax says:

    I find her annoying and pretentious, too, but I also feel a bit sorry for her. The Jay Z interview she did was beyond vomitous. She’s trying to be all things to all people and she needs to stop it. What she REALLY needs to do is chop off that horrible stringy hair!

    I bought her cookery book for shits and giggles as some of her quotes I’d read on-line were unintentionally hilarious. I was surprised to discover that the recipes are f***king amazing and really easy to make for a non-foody peasant like me!

  22. Quest says:

    @ whatyousay?!

    At least Goopy has the nannies, time, personal trainer, dietician, maids, bodyguards, and personal assistants to help her, unlike the rest of us who actual have to schedule all what we do ourselves (without the army of help)and cannot afford to work-out at least 2.5 hours a day

  23. TXCinderella says:

    (dabbing eyes with tissue) This is deeply disturbing to me because all this time I thought she was perfect.

  24. jen says:

    I thought it was also funny what she said about “…,being a wife, and trying to maintain a relationship…” as if they are two different things.
    Matthew Morrison much?

  25. OXA says:

    What the hell did she do to her face?

  26. Catherine says:

    It is quite obvious she suffers from low self esteem and that is why she has that snobby, elitist attitude to cover it up. That is what happens when both of your parents are too busy in hollywood and broadway to really parent your child beside summering on the coast.
    It doesn’t make her a bad person as she is like so many other kids growing up today, but her compensation just happens to be public.

  27. curmudgeon says:

    @Kaiser
    “Oh, Goop. You are a riddle wrapped in enigma, covered in pretension, dipped in sanctimony, left out to dry on the rack of inanity and then packaged in vitamin deficiency.”

    That is genius. I wanna read YOUR book lady.

  28. melissa says:

    I really doubt she’s likes and watches football.

  29. Mia135 says:

    I plan to buy the cookbook and I think she looks great in the top shot.
    She should just concentrate on her acting and cooking talents and stop trying to give people an idea of her “normalcy” and “inner self”.

  30. Annie says:

    I wonder why everyone thinks this woman is so pale skinned? She always looks very tan to me.

  31. Aurelia says:

    I swear she is wearing those undies that have the bum pads in them. Check the first pick. She is trying to get some shape. This broad has a weird figure – narrow sloping shoulders, no tits or hips. Ya but she does have quite decent legs. Shame about the donetella v yellow blonde wig. She suits her hair with her natural base and light highlights (more youthful) and a length just on her sloping shoulders. If shes worried about aging the first thing that needs to go is the old white hair. Nuff said.

  32. Betty says:

    I’m confused by the title of her book and it might just be because I am a peasant. Does she want everyone to know that she’s her father’s daughter–not immaculately conceived–or does she have a sister we don’t know about? My simple mind cannot comprehend.

  33. Anti-icon says:

    You said it all better than I could —- about Goop — who will NOT GO AWAY. Can’t we put her on a 3-hour luxury cruise that…..gets lost….and instead of becoming Gilligan’s Island, it just is never heard from again?!?!?! LOL

  34. di butler says:

    @Betty She was going to call it Me! Me! Me! But the editors evidently talked her out of it, so this is as close as she can get to saying, “Me!”

    This woman. UGH. A complete lack of self-awareness.

  35. justme says:

    Hilarious writing but seriously.. Gosh..poor thing. She must be going through a midlife crisis of sorts…

  36. Nanea says:

    If Goopy eats healthily, how does he explain her awful hair?

    She should have actually looked up the definition of ironic before using that adjective.

  37. MJ says:

    Her face looks rather taut. Perhaps this perfectionist is stretching herself a little too thin?

  38. moon says:

    #1 I have eaten duck once in my life and that was enough for me, yuck. It’s VERY oily and I don’t think the average cook buys duck, unless it’s common in the States?
    #2 I wonder why they were eating WHITE pasta if she is so health conscious.
    #3 Spelt flour is also very expensive, but it is better for us than wheat flour
    #4 Even though I don’t wear heels that high, I do like her shoes, they would look rockin hot with a pair of fancy ass jeans.
    #5 Though I don’t dislike Gwen I do think she needs to change her hair, it’s too fine to be that long, a blunt cut would look healthier and suit her small face better, but I have fine hair & a small face so short works best for me.

  39. Emma says:

    Cat face!

  40. PrettyLights says:

    I read her Goopy Christmas suggestions this year and it made me not like her… it was like $100 for a pair of monogrammed socks for your kids, or $1,000 for a travel case for your husband, ect… she’s trying to appeal to the masses but that’s not the way to do it. Those gifts are great if you make tons of money like she does but it’s definitely not for middle class people – which is a lot of the population including her fans. It just made her sound completely out of touch and so elitist about things, and also like Christmas is all about money and how much you spend… I feel kinda bad for her that she seems to have this need to share every part of her ‘perfect (but she claims it’s not perfect!)’ life with everyone who will listen. I guess since her movies have tanked she needs some way to stay in the spotlight, instead of quietly enjoying her family and life like other people do.

  41. The_Porscha says:

    That last sentence about Goopy was the best sentence that has ever been written on the internetz.

  42. Kaiser says:

    Thanks, bitches! Your comments on this thread are priceless, and thank you for the compliments.

  43. Ben says:

    You know what? Usually I think you’re too hard on people. But those clips! She sounds so fucking ACTRESSY. She’s *not* a singer – she’s deluded. She isn’t good enough. I just spent an evening with an unfamous but excellent singer and musician. This is just insulting.

  44. jemshoes says:

    I don’t necessarily agree that if you can’t do something perfectly, you just give up. That’s where using perfectionism to explain why you quit is an excuse, not a reason. I’m not surprised to hear this kind of pop-pysch babble from Goopy, but I am kind of disappointed to hear it from Emma Watson.

  45. Camille says:

    ‘try hard’ is right. Puke.

  46. leuce7 says:

    I’m not particularly a Gwyneth Paltrow fans (except for her shoes! I wouldn’t mind a shopping trip in her shoe closet) but I feel the need to sort of pipe up I suppose in defense (although it makes me feel icky to do so).

    Just because she’s rich and has the money to solve problems the majority of the rest of the world has (believe me, I’m currently unemployed, I know of what I speak) doesn’t mean her problems aren’t real, valid, and difficult. Wouldn’t I love to not have to worry about having money, or not have to worry about having to work, let alone looking for jobs? Of course. But I dont’ have half the insecurities GP does, or her neediness, or whatever drives her to constantly seek approval from the world. It can’t be a healthy way to live.

    Okay, that’s as much as I can defend. Let’s all get back to rolling our eyes at how out of touch she is while trying to be “just like us!”

  47. Becky says:

    Wow, her face looks jacked in those photos. I don’t know what she did, but she definitely did something.

  48. Irene says:

    She looks great in these pics!

  49. MaudeLebowski says:

    Gwynnie, your bum looks hyooj in that first photo.

  50. harfang says:

    This beast makes McConaughgeeeaaaaayyy look like that lady who took in washing all her life and still gave $250k to charity.

  51. Nik Nak says:

    @kaiser…definitely some of your best work! Jaded’s addition was priceless!

  52. Tami says:

    “I swear she is wearing those undies that have the bum pads in them.”

    Yeah, I thought that first pic looked weird. Pads would explain it.

    Her voice is god awful.

  53. Hakura says:

    If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s acting like you have ‘SO MANY issues’ like NORMAL people, in order to attempt to look better (more sympathetic). But when it’s it’s complete BS (or when they focus on unreasonably ridiculous small things that hold NO significance), it only accomplishes the opposite, making no one no like you.

    Like Annaloo mentioned, there’s a hell of a lot more important things to be stressed about, things someone like Goopy simply knows nothing about. I’d say being able to pay one’s medical/home bills is the most ‘real life’ sort of stressing issue that someone can deal with. That’s obviously not an issue for her. Plus I think her ‘perfectionism’ concept was just to improve her PR, trying to make us think she’s ‘one of us’, even when the woman is obviously an arrogant bitch. She’s just full of it.

  54. tracking says:

    Girlfriend lives in a rarefied world. I get it–whether it comes to her body or her relationship, she *TRIES HARDER* than the rest of us and therefore is eminently deserving of her perfect life. The rest of us *TRY LESS HARD* and therefore are worthy of lesser lives. Is she this much of an entitled beyotch, or just plain stupid? Silly question.

  55. Anne de Vries says:

    This makes me laugh because by titling her insecurities ironic, she is saying that we should all be surprised that she’s insecure. Kind of like ‘I know you all think I’m amazing and super confident and a goddess, but ironically I am quite insecure’.

    You don’t have to tell us Gwynny, it shows. Badly.
    The title of that cookbook is something else. It’s all ‘honouring my father’ while of course it comes down to me me me me. She should have just called it ‘ME. Gwyneth Paltrow, YOUR GODDESS’

  56. MsS says:

    I just don’t get wut makes ur woman do all this? Feels like that Seinfeld episode when Jerry ends up wearing a fur coat -‘look at me- love me, love me’…

  57. Elj says:

    It’s been about forty years. WHEN is she going to change her hairstyle, seriously.

  58. kb says:

    reminds me of the episode of sex and the city where carrie’s therapist also treated gwyneth paltrow because she had too much self esteem. lol

  59. Bee says:

    I’m not picking up what she’s putting down.

  60. SassyOne says:

    Is it just me, or does Fishsticks look like she has some Kard-ass-ian-esque ass prosthetic on in the first pic? I thought she was a pancake ass, not a bubble butt.

  61. original kate says:

    “It’s American family food; it’s very accessible and easy to make.”

    go-lly, if it don’t come outta no microwave it’s too hard for us american poor folk to figger out. c’mon young’uns, dinner at mickey d’s again!

  62. UrbanRube says:

    I don’t like her at all, but I think she was saying that it’s ironic that she’s a perfectionist because she’s starting from such a deeply flawed place.

  63. Stuffs says:

    This horsefaced freak actually looks good from the waist down. Almost like a woman.

  64. Newbie says:

    @original kate: I’m crying right now! I haven’t laughed that hard in several days. Thank you!

    Still don’t get the Goopy hate. She’s got tons of money, yes, but it doesn’t mean her life is devoid of problems. Every human being has something that tries and tests them. And bytheway…I haven’t heard of many women who DON’T claim to be perfectionistic. I know I am. Not about everything, per se, but certainly when it comes to the things I care about. I don’t know if it’s the media telling us what we should be, or men telling us the same, but a lot of women struggle with that one way or another.