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Gwyneth Palrow is taking her commitment to promoting obsessive physical fitness to a dangerous new level. While she used to be happy just shoving her GOOP in our faces, now she’s planning on helping her equally obsessive trainer Tracy Anderson – who also trains Madonna – open a gym in New York City.
Gwyneth Paltrow helped her trainer Tracy Anderson find a studio space on Greenwich Street so that you too can have a body like hers—and Madonna’s. (Anderson has lived and traveled with the buff pop star for the last two years, keeping her in shape.) “Gwyneth came to see every space, engaged in detailed discussion after each one,” says their broker, Prudential Douglas Elliman’s Anita Grossberg. Anderson’s workout combines dance aerobics and Pilates. “When you walk into the studio it looks like a circus—bands and cubes and props are hanging from the ceiling,” Anderson said from South America, where she’s on the road with Madonna. “When I started training Gwyneth, she couldn’t dance at all, and now you should see her.”
[From New York Magazine]
Tracy Anderson also has a studio in Los Angeles - which customers say is poorly maintained with filthy bathrooms. Anderson is not only a crazy trainer, but a terrible, scamming “businesswoman” too. She shafted hundreds of customers out of money for their pre-paid training fees in Fischers, Indiana.
“I was a client of Tracy Anderson Studios in Fishers also. Her program does work, but don’t believe everything that you hear about Tracy and her business. It is true that she did leave her clients in Fishers overnight…just took the machines and our money and left. She claims to have been a student at the Julliard School of Dance, but come to find out she was there for only 3 months and then left.”
[From Gabsmash]
Anderson also claimed she’d create personalized pilates regimens for different body types, which her customers paid for. It turns out the regimens were actually the same for everyone. In addition to the Julliard claims, Tracy also said she was in Cats and was Power Ranger, which was false. Ton of her jilted former clients have posted on Gabsmash’s forums complaining about her, and they all have a similar story to tell. I can only imagine what kind of trouble the woman plans to get into in New York.
In April Us Weekly did an article about Anderson, which included her diet recommendations. Many of the meal plans had a total of less than 800 calories a day, which is definitely dangerous. In addition, Anderson also recommended working out for two hours a day, six days a week. Yet Gwyneth is still a devotee. In her latest GOOP email, she says she used to have a “Shar-Pei-like stomach” until she met Tracy, who apparently changed her life.
Tracy Anderson is a scammer promoting an utterly insane, unhealthy, extreme, and unbalanced lifestyle. The thought of this woman launching another gym is terrifying. I can just see women fainting en masse. Who can safely survive on a lunch of two hardboiled eggs, ½ a cup of baby carrots and ½ a cup of cherry tomatoes? All we can do is hope this is just a pipe dream on Gwyneth and Tracy’s part – though something tells me it isn’t.
Update: Thanks to editor David Zivian at Indianapolis Monthly for commenting with a link to this excellent profile of Tracy Anderson and her questionable business practices. She has a habit of not paying her bills or rent and regularly left businesses in the lurch owing money. Anderson has been sued six times in Indiana. What’s more is that she left her husband for a married guy she also owed tens of thousands to and then scammed that guy into investing even more money into her business, only to leave him once she hit it big.
Here are Gwyneth and Madonna on their way back from workouts with Tracy Anderson this past spring. Images thanks to Fame and Bauer-Griffin.
Written by JayBird
Posted in Business, Fitness, Gwyneth Paltrow
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16 Responses to “Gwyneth Paltrow helps her scamming trainer launch a gym (update)”
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And people in Hell want ice cream, what’s her point ? If we spent less time indulging the petty whims of celebritards with more bucks than brain cells but with no staying power when the chips are down and invested in the regular man with a dream of a small business to call his own, the economy would do better. I can’t imagine Brits flocking to such an establishment anyway.
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The title needs some repair
Holy mo’…look at her trainer, what woman wants 12 year-old boy pelvis?
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Whoops, commented before it was fixed!
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Well slap my face and call me crazy. How timely of Ms.Paltrow, in These Difficult Times, to help launch yet another business that caters to pea-brained, wealthy slackers. Honestly. All it takes is a little exercise and eating from the 4 basic food groups in a sensible fashion. Hell, it’s not rocket science. The Slim Fast plan is cheaper and just as effective. I guess when your days are filled with obsessive scrutiny of your own body you gotta do something that’s at least pretend important to somebody. Pffft.
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she must be following her own diet plan-its obviously malnourished her and stunted her growth. WTF?!? hobbit alert. how short is she?
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Just tooting my own horn here…
We did a long piece on Tracy in January 08; in case you can’t get enough.
Thanks –
David Zivan
Editor
Indianapolis Monthly -
She is a creepy dwarf. Those swindled clients ought to report her to the Better Business Bureau and sue her ass en masse. They could almost certainly garnish her assets.
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i’m sure fishsticks paltrow is a crappy dancer. after kathy lee gifford she is the whitest woman on the planet.
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One commentator said that she thought that Madonna was basically anorexic, with the muscles and scary veins just distracting from that - looking at the state of her and the typical diet plans, I think that person could be right.
I’m starting to warm to Gwyneth more and hopes she cops onto to someone who is having an obviously toxic (though probably unintentional) effect on her physique and soon her life.
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I’m starting to think Gwyneth Paltrow must be a very sad person. First she followed that intense raw-food diet for years, and now she’s following someone whose idea of normal exercise and eating habits is pretty much sadistic. I always think when somebody goes overboard with fitness and diet — and I don’t think there’s any question GP does — they’re harboring serious insecurities. She must be pretty miserable if starving herself and working out two hours a day give her some sort of high.
What’s worse, of course, is that she’s actually pushing Anderson’s philosophy on other people, by talking about her on her web site and now buying her a gym. The woman should be out on her ass, but lucky for her, stupid people with big money and even bigger influence are going to make her wealthy and idolized.
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@David - that’s a fabulous profile of Tracy and I recommend that anyone interested in this woman read it. I will update the post with a link to that article.
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Madonna looks creepy ass hell. And Gwennie is just a jackass - I can’t even imagine who reaps GOOP for any purpose other than getting snark material. It’s like the TWOP bloggers shooting up Sandra Lee’s ratings - because her show is a treasure trove of laughs when it’s analyzed.
Can we start a petition or anything to help these gals get their money?
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boomchakaboom I love what you wrote. Dead on.
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Both Madonna’s and Gwyneth’s workouts are all wrong. Gwyneth bulked out the wrong muscles by her armpits in an effort to lift her saggy rack. See the photo of her in white strapless dress in Miami taken in late Novemember. Madonna’s manly arms are another testimony that Anderson is just butt kissing two stupid, uneducated narcissists. Gullible, delusional narcissists.
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David Zivan: You are an as—–.
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didn’t tracy anderson swindle a lot of her old customers in favor of celebrities or something?
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