I finally got the designer ID on Gwyneth Paltrow’s white dress – it’s Lanvin. That makes sense. Anyway, Goop is promoting Thanks For Sharing, the sex-addiction rom-com with Mark Ruffalo, only Ruffalo seems MIA during promotion so far. Goop makes an appearance on today’s Ellen Show to promote the film. The last time Goop was on, it was just after her appearance on the red carpet for Iron Man 3, and Goop and Ellen ended up talking about Goop’s bush and how she “works a 70s vibe” and how she had to shave it for a certain dress. During today’s appearance, Ellen once again asks after Goop’s bush:
Gwyneth says that she was surprised that everyone picked up on the story and that “I knew it had permeated when my brother in-law said to me like, ‘I hope you’re not going to bring back big bush.’ I was like, ‘Thanks, Al. Thanks for your support.'” When Ellen asks if Goop is still going “full Goop,” she says: “Let’s not say I am and let’s not say I’m not. No, I’m not. No. Are we going to talk about my pubic hair every time I come on this show?” And now you know, ladies. Goop is keeping up with her bikini waxes. And maybe even going in for Brazilians now? I have to admit, I actually liked the fact that Gwyneth was proud of her full bush. I hate Brazilian waxes.
Meanwhile, Life & Style had a funny story about Goop at the gym:
Gwyneth Paltrow’s been criticized for her recent over-the-top comments and unrealistic advice on her blog, Goop, but her latest antics may be some of the most over-the top yet.
An insider tells Life & Style of Gwyn’s high maintenance diva demands at the gym: “Before she showers, Gwyneth makes someone go into the stall and wipe the entire shower dry!” an insider tells Life & Style. “She refuses to touch what she calls ‘somebody else’s shower water.’”
And though her gym offers a variety of high-end bottled water, they don’t carry her favorite brand, SmartWater. “When she’s there, they have to send someone to the gas station to buy a couple bottles of SmartWater,” the insider explains. “She made such a fuss about it not being stocked, but she doesn’t come in often enough.”
But it doesn’t end there. “She also refuses to use toilet paper that anyone has touched and demands an unopened package.” continues the insider. “It’s nuts.”
I’m sure there will be some people who think that Goop’s demands are somewhat reasonable for health reasons, as in Gwyneth doesn’t want to be around germs and God knows what people were doing in that shower, etc, and God knows if somebody LICKED that toilet paper. But I think it’s less about germs and more about peasant-phobia. Goop is afraid she will come down with a terrible case of peasant poverty if she mingles amongst them for too long.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
And she would like a new toilet seat as well. her ass will not touch were the peasants sit. eyeroll.
I somehow cant imagine there are a lot of “peasants” at any gym Goop would dare pay to have a membership at. What, there aren’t rich elitist gyms she can afford? This reads like she’s going to the neighbourhood Goodlife or something…
Queen Elizabeth visited my college & they installed a new fancy toilet seat for the occasion.
I’m not gonna lie, I’m pretty bougey about my smart water too. I don’t drink soda or tea (i get heartburn like crazy) so I’ve adapted to treating my water like a special drink.
that being said, i have allergies right now and i would pay just to cough my peasant germs around her just for the goop reaction
Tara, I so relate to this. I know it’s snotty as heck, but I can taste when I’m drinking tap water. I don’t drink sodas and other “special drinks” and my special water makes me so happy. I enjoy every sip. It’s worth being a snot.
Yeah, protip, “Thinker”? Most bottled water comes from municipal sources. You’re almost always drinking tap water. Have a great day.
It’s pretty easy to find out which waters are municipal and which come from actual springs, especially if you live near the mountains where there are abundant springs. The source of origin is usually right on the bottle, and if you have doubts you can research easily online. It’s not like it’s a mystery… Maybe Thinker already has a favorite brand of bottled that she seeks out? I know my bottled brand comes from a spring because I’ve seen the spring (it’s in my town) and I have taken huge buckets from it. So much better than the heavily mineralized tap water at my house, which has ruined two drip coffee makers now.
Well, I get MINE straight from Shailene Woodley….It’s PURE.
Bottled water isn’t regulated the way tap water is, so I always prefer tap. Plus it’s not been sitting in a plastic bottle for god knows how long. Just my preference!
I don’t blame Gwyneth. I don’t think it’s pretentious. I know people who have picked up planters warts from gym showers. They are gross, filthy places. I don’t quite get it with the toilet paper although when you think of it,
someone’s poopy hands could have grabbed that part. I get where she’s coming from. We do have to share with the public but some things are okay to try and avoid.
With her money, I don’t understand why she doesn’t have her own gym at home and then she wouldn’t have to worry about any of this.
I’ll admit, gym showers skeeve me so I just stink up my car and head home to shower. Now when it comes to TP and bottled water: GOOP is pretentious on these points. If she wants a specific brand of water that the gym doesn’t routinely stock, she should stop at a store on her way and pick up a few bottles of her favorite bottled water and the needing a whole new roll of TP unwrapped b/c it can’t have touched the hands of others? can’t she just bring her own fresh roll in her gym bag or get a container of those things toilet wipes for adults and use those?
Can’t wait to see the time when people have enough of her, stop giving her roles and she becomes the Katherine Heigl of cinema.
Thank you. She’s ruined the Iron Man movies for me. As much as I love RDJ, I can’t stand her pretentious ass.
Exactly, skyler1!
The whole time I was watching IM3 at the theater I kept thinking, “such a lovely person ONSCREEN, but such a b*tch off” and couldn’t focus on the film.
And the worst part for me to admit is that I actually think she’s a great actress, if you are able to not think about the kind of person she is or don’t know a thing about her.
I can’t throw shade at her for this. Hell would probably freeze over before I use a public shower. The toilet paper thing is a little excessive but I have a real phobia of public restrooms in general.
+1 I feel the same way. When I go to the gym I never use the showers or the sauna. I avoid public bathrooms as much as possible too, If I can, I wait until I get home.
Me too-ick. I never saw the inside of my school bathrooms until I went away to college and was forced to. I put down 2 of those paper things on the toilet seat. And don’t even get me started on the gym showers-shudder.
I refuse to use public showers anywhere. And the first and last time I did, I got spied on and followed around by a woman who hung around the showers, fully dressed, and would not leave! Pissed me off and put me off public showers forever. Also saves toting around shower products and hair driers and brushes.
Yes. I would rather stink up my car than get in one of those showers.
I kind of get the toilet paper thing too, but I mean–just take the edge of your finger and roll a bit off first. Or bring your own roll.
Yeah I agree, and I do use the showers at the gym, and have even used truck stop showers, and by far the worst was the shower I had to use in a jail cell — hope to never experience that again but anyway… I make myself use them because I travel a lot and it’s practical, but I hate it the entire time I’m in there! And it’s different everywhere of course. Sometimes having a really nice tile or an extremely pleasant smell (went to a gym that put a eucalyptus blend of oils in the sauna so the entire locker room smelled good when it steamed) can make me feel more at home and less grossed out. I should probably mention I also have what I call ‘the Howard Hughes type’ of OCD, and have my entire life. I’m no Gwyneth stan but maybe she suffers from this too. I hate feeling so easily germaphobic, and I’m no snob, I’m from Alabama so I know my place in the world LMAO.
Hm, sometimes it’s not merely about health. I don’t like to poop in public toilet, although I have no problem with peeing.
Stop.
sooooooooooooo annnnoooooooooyyyying
Get over yourself.
She bugs me, but not as much as others, (like Beyonce and JLo). I have to say….I wouldn’t want to shower at the gym either.
However….These idiots have so much money I don’t even understand why they GO TO a gym….Why doesn’t she have one in her house? It doesn’t make sense to me at all. I don’t have a gym at my house, but I do all my exercising at home….I wouldn’t ever want to go to a gym. Adds time to your workout and there are germs. I guess I am weird.
She needs to go to the gym to get papped.
Reese Witherspoon gets papped at the gym every damn day!
And you comment below is hilarious!! Unexpected blow out of goop! =}
I hear Henry Cavill has lots of those!
Ha I was just thinking, there’s no way I’d go to the gym if I could afford to have equipment at home, because I like PRIVACY and people not seeing me….then I thought, oh yeah, we’re talking about famewhores here
I was coming to post exactly this.
Why, with all that money, don’t these people just build a gym in their houses?
It’s not like they go out to the movies! Hollywood types stay at home for that – they’ve all built themselves private home theaters so they can watch movies in a clean, comfortable, nearby environment.
Why not a home gym? Is it really the paps? Or is it the opportunity to lord it over other people and make them scurry around?
This information about GOOP is hardly flattering (as is that dress – the scoop neckline just shows off the bones sticking out of her chest. Yuck.)
well now that’s just ridiculous..
Her immune system must be crap! How on earth can you strengthen it unless “exercise” it once in a while by mingling with peasants?
Haha! But probably her immune system is as selective as she is and won’t accept any peasant bacteria & viruses to get through. Only bugs from special people like Beyonce and Stella MacCartney are allowed.
her kids bring home one case of peasant diarrhea and knock out the whole lot of them..
blue marie ~ Those McDonalds bugs are the worst! But hey, why can’t she think of it like a thorough cleansing?
Excellent point. Getting exposed to pathogens when you’re healthy is like Pilates for your immune system. Perhaps that’s why this woman occasionally deigns to share air with the proles.
I agree about a home gym! They must like being in the spotlight, or they would! I’ve said the same about the Ktrash clan? Don’t see Kim trekking to the gym since she gave birth? Goop Princess is the same? So irregular they don’t stock her water, where else is she exercising? Maybe their own homes?
I’m not picky about the water, but when I go to a public toilet (only to pee, I can’t do no. 2 in a public toilet.) I unroll couple of sheets of the toilet paper and throw them away. Then I use the “untouched” part of the toilet paper. I can’t stand the thought of someone maybe touching that roll of paper after they did their deed. And about the showers-I can’t even make myself think about using a public shower. So, I can’t judge her about this. I know a lot of people who after gym would just put some old clothes on, drive home and shower at home.
I know if I forget my ‘shower Tevas’, it’s time to brave the nasty sweat and drive home!!
I guess she must have a big ole stack of gold filagreed organic combed cotton Depends because even the great goopy must experience the odd unexpected blow out from time to time.
She is not very graceful is she? She definitely can’t dance. Someone should teach her how to stand for a photo op.
I never realized what a peasant I am. Unrolling/discarding the outer sheets makes perfect sense but I never thought about it. Heaven only knows what germs I have inadvertently transferred to myself over the years.
(I’m being serious. I will do that from now on.)
Gas station? How quaint.
Hehe… I am a major germaphobe and remove the toilet paper that has been touched as well! I don’t mind being called snotty if that makes me a snot 😛
I belonged to an expensive gym in my 20s. I don’t remember the toilet paper, but the towels were amazing. Huge fluffy warm white towels. I miss that place.
Goop remains neurotic, miserable, and insufferable.
Honestly this sounds like obsessive compulsive disorder – having someone wipe the shower down or getting an unopened roll of toilet paper. Maybe if you’re rich enough to have someone do this stuff for you, no one bothers to put a label on the behaviour.
An OCD diagnosis would explain a lot about Goop.
Agreed! If I were rich I’d need people around me specifically to guard me from becoming full-blown Howard Hughes. Since I can’t afford a shower wiper, I have to suck it up and deal with it, which is actually sometimes good therapy for OCD. Being allowed to give in to the OCD urges only makes them worse, it entrenches the behavior (and anxiety) in your brain. People with OCD can sometimes force themselves to control it (remember the scene in The Aviator when Leo’s HH has to keep his cool during the dinner meeting when the guy put a thumbprint on the glass?), it’s just that it is FAR MORE soothing to go with the obsession/compulsion.
So I read this whole article and all the comments, and yet my biggest annoyance is “they don’t stock her water so they have to run out and get her some when she comes in”.
Like, she can’t bring her own GD water???
Plus, I don’t see what is so great about Smart Water, it tastes like it’s been in the bottle forever to me, like plastic water you accidentally got in your mouth from blowing up a float in the pool (childhood memories! and feel free to think I’m crazy for that comparison)
As others have stated, get your own gym, Gwyneth!!! You are a multi-millionaire for pete’s sake – you can afford top of the line equipment, staff and (gasp!) clean showers. Quite yer bitchin’.
The antics of this pretentious a$$hole are getting out of control. And who gives a sh*t if she waxes? She totally loves people wondering about it or she wouldn’t have answered the way she did.
why does she even have a gym membership if she finds it so gross? surely she can afford the equipment and a trainer at home.
Speaking of toilet paper, I saw on Keeping up with the Kardashians that Kris uses black toilet paper. It was an episode where Kris was trying to convince Kim to move in with her after the baby was born. I admit I always watch this show, it’s interesting to me to see how the rich live.
Definitely OCD. You’d think all that yoga would help her relax. Mental illness is a bummer.
I won’t burn her for that. She seems to be one of the more down to earth celebrities in my book. It is~ a bit insulting at first, but we don’t know the reason why she asks those things.
All these Gywneth stories and not one post from ‘Dorothy’. Has someone scared her off!?!?
Am I the only one who thinks it’s normal to drive home from the gym in my sweaty gym clothes? And I mean, I work out hard (speaking of, I always bring three bottles of tap water with me so I don’t run out), I’m dripping. But using the gym showers never occurred to me.
The toilet paper thing is silly to me though. You’re going to wash your hands after you’re done going anyways, right?…Right??