I love that even with Vogue’s professional hair stylists, airbrushers and Photoshoppers, no one can get Gwyneth Paltrow’s hair to look good. Gwyneth has a feature in the February issue of Vogue to promote her collaboration with Juice Beauty. Gwyneth has been doing a lot of press for this collaboration, and all of the press pieces say Gwyneth has “launched” the beauty line. But as many commenters told me last week, Juice Beauty has existed for a while. They were doing okay before Gwyneth even came around to put her Goop stink on everything.
Anyway, you can read the Vogue article here. Gwyneth allowed Vogue to come into her workout session with Tracy Anderson at the studio that Gwyneth co-owns (with Anderson), then follows her around, like a day-in-the-life piece. Here are some highlights:
Her workouts: “I have to do it,” Paltrow says of the two-hour training session she subjects herself to every weekday as a way to balance out her love of cheese and bread.
Her skincare: “I used to just splash water on my face and stick on some moisturizer. But now I do a regimen regularly,” Paltrow admits of a routine that hinges on Goop by Juice Beauty skin care, a new range of six organically formulated products that will be the first branded offering from her ever-growing lifestyle empire when it bows next month.
Organic products: “We absorb 60 to 80 percent of what we put on our skin. so the idea that you’re exercising and trying to eat well and then slathering yourself with chemicals, parabens, and silicones—it’s not great.”
The “rigorous” formulation process for the skincare line: “My head of Goop Beauty called me the princess and the pea.”
Showing her work ethic to her kids: “It’s nice to show them by example how hard I work, and what it takes to be a serious person,” she says, explaining that she’s taking a break from acting to brush up on her business acumen.
The next thing: “It would be a dream to develop a line of organic hair products that worked like a professional line.”
Two hours of working out every weekday, then she putters around with Goop during the day, then she spends the afternoon and evenings with her kids. It’s a fine schedule. I would love that schedule. But let’s not pretend that Gwyneth is, like, a full-time working woman or that she’s working “hard.” I don’t even believe she was all that rigorous about “formulating” new products for Juice Beauty considering they already had many, many products that were selling just fine before Goop’s involvement.
Also: did anyone else laugh when she talked about launching a haircare line? LOL. It’s bad enough that Gwyneth – who was never known for having great skin or makeup – is doing a makeup and skincare line, but she has TERRIBLE hair. And you know if she does a haircare line, she’ll demand to be “the face” of the line too.
Photos courtesy of Luke Gilford/Vogue and WENN.
This woman hustles so hard I think she must owe Kris Jenner some money.
And, appropriately, that yellow sweater photo looks like a Massengil ad circa 1975
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Lets face it – her clientele is going to predominantly be mega rich women who inject all kinds of sh’t into their face and lips and body…. and no cream is going to eradicate wrinkles so your research is wasted… just slap any old moisturizer into a bottle and stick your GOOP name onto it and people will buy it.
And that’s a flaky clientele, at best. Juice will be in the discount aisle in 3years. and I do think Goop will go under too. I’m not convinced of her business model, and I don’t think it’s making money.
Agree! While she is clearly good about creating a buzz around all that she does, I too wonder about the state of her biz and her skills at actually making money. I know that Goop was heavily in the red last time any numbers was made public. Yes Gwyneth is a media darling, but women like Drew Barrymore, Jessica Alba and Jessica Simpson seems to be much better at understanding what the market wants and at what prize
The whole thing is: does Goop actually sell? Someone who shops at Hirschleifers in the Hamptons REALLY going to buy something advertised to the New Money all over Goop? I agree, she is good with the buzz, but I think she’s throwing a lot of pasta at the wall (dry bars, gyms, cosmetics, goop, endorsements, etc) and hoping something sticks… I see your books in the “On Sale” area, Gwynnie, you kale chomping psychopath
Agreed, and there is no cream or diet that will eradicate what smoking and continuous sun exposure do to skin.
So no acting then? We are just going with the Goop thing as the roles dry up?
Didn’t she say in the interview that she was taking a step back to focus on improving her business acumen? Hahaha. Good luck with that, Einstein.
Is it just me or does Paltrow take anti-aging and wellness to a pathological level? Bothering and worrying that much about your health and your looks isn’t worth it because it causes more stress than a somewhat relaxed approach. And avoiding stress is one of the main keys to a healthy and long life.
My thoughts exactly.
true! Sooooo true. I just look at her mom, Blythe, who seems to not have futzed around with this crazy diet and exercise stuff (altho, what do I know?). I think her mom looks more youthful and cool at 60+ than GOOP does now.
Good point!!!!
I really don’t think she’s any worse than many people in Hollywood who feel desperate to maintain their youth and looks to stay relevant and employed. She just has a bigger platform than many from which to preach.
That and she spews nonsense, humble brags, is unrelatable, has hideous hair and skin but the gall to tell us about hygeine and beauty, and is flakier than a Pilsbury southern bisquit.
And food and exercise. She’s got some big time issues.
So many annoying words.
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Is she even an actress anymore now that Iron Man solo movies have ended ? Here is a perfect example of someone whose AMPA card should be revoked.
I was always told you’re not supposed to workout eeveryday because your body needs to rest so it always confuses me seeing people talk about exercise as an every day thing.
I think it’s about switching things up. Maybe running 6 times a week (unless you’re an athlete) isn’t great but if you do some pilates etc., that should be fine.
Yes, I was going to say the same thing. You can do some “active recovery” instead of resting completely on some days.
Although I’m not sure if she meant and “everyday thing” literally. It could just be weekdays. I sort of took it as “a consistent thing.”
The biggest rule about exercise: there is no big rule. Different bodies have different needs, and people with different goals are going to have different regimes. You can work out every day, but work different muscle groups. Or you can do the same muscle groups 2 days in a row to work from fatigued muscles. You can run every day, but vary the speeds; you can do yoga 3 times a week and then alternate days with strength sessions. Ultimately people need to give their bodies *some* rest, but for many folks that doesn’t necessarily mean taking the whole day off.
Also side bat her and Jennifer Aniston are some of the most boring looking women I’ve ever seen
When she gets her hair deep conditioned and cut, then maybe I would listen to her. Not.
Lovely to see you here Abbess, haven’t seen you for a while. Hope everything’s peachy with you.
Thanks, been posting sporadically. Hope you good as well.
She’s a Mean Girl sociopath, narcissistic and I’m just not convinced with Goop as a business.
She needs to stop bleaching her hair, that’s why it’s in such poor condition. what’s wrong with her natural colour? And why not just stop eating bread, I thought she had a crazy strict diet.
She needs to stop talking.
She does have a crazy strict diet. She’s just doing some old fashioned lying.
Yes. These quotes made me laugh on so many levels.
In an older interview she said that she’s suffering from brittle bone disease caused by her super strict diet and hard excersise.
It’s weird to me how she never mentions it anymore and now she is giving health advice.
I read that too Rainbow. Maybe all the nutritional deficiencies in her diet have affected her memory? Osteoporosis does not go away, but altering your lifestyle &/or taking meds can slow down the process. Maybe she’s in denial and has simply stopped having dexa scans, convinced her Tracey Anderson “fix” has cured her.
You do not absorb 60-80% of what you put on your skin. If that were true, we’d all die after a trip into the city (most cities). Your skin is designed to keep things out, that’s its job. It’s why cosmetics companies are lying their a**es off when they tell you that XY cream penetrates 4 layers deep or whatever. I cannot stand this nonsense.
Yes, you can harm your skin. Yes, there are products that aren’t great for you skin. But Goopy, you’ve done the most damage by tanning for decades, we can all see it. Silicones won’t, in fact, do you in. STFU.
This makes me so angry. Women are being fed so much bs by the beauty industry, it’s offensive.
THANK YOU.
If we absorbed 80 per cent of what goes on our skin, how could we like… go swimming, or use soap?
And the smoking!
Stop. You’re being logical and making sense!
Says the woman who believes in talking to water so it feels loved.
Don’t forget steaming her vagina! LOL.
That’s Goop for you – she never met a falsehood she didn’t like.
She has to do it. How else is she going to fit into the size zero freebies she gets all the time? Poor her, it’s a hard life. Now I know why the friendship between Gwyneth and Madonna cracked apart. Imagine the two competing egos/narcissists.
No. That friendship ended because Madonna busted Goop flirting with Guy via text. That’s what that was about. Goop is THAT kind of friend.
2 hours? I’m no doctor, but I’d be scared of getting overuse injuries at that point. I’ve pushed myself to around a 90 minute workout – on rare occasions. I tend to go around 45 minutes to an hour, tops. Because after that, I feel like diminishing returns start. I don’t get how she’s doing it without doing some type of damage happening. Unless she’s fluffing, which is a distinct possibility.
As you said, there is a point of diminishing returns with working out….and it’s not good for women to have below 19-20% body fat as fat is an organ too. Fat makes estrogen, aids brain repairs, tells your body it can have periods and be fertile, cushions your bones (see Kelly Ripa and Jane Fonda), gives your skin elasticity (ahem), and gives you pretty hair (2nd cough). I’m kind of scared for her when she hits menopause.
I don’t know why I feel compelled to defend her, lol, but I immediately thought that a good percentage of her two hour workout is spent on warming up, cooling down and stretching. My co-worker does Crossfit, for example, and she told me that of her hour workout, only 7-8 minutes are actually hard and intense. Definitely not my thing.
Depends on what you count as a workout. I’ve tried Tracy Anderson’s dvds (yes, I deeply regret it!) and I was wearing my heart rate monitor once. I’m a runner, among other things, so I know what my body is used to and what it can do. Tracy Anderson stuff activates *me* on a level I get while warming up! Or while I’m walking my dogs. My puppies take me out for three hours a day. So by that account I get at least three hours of exercise a day! Wow!
People, don’t buy into Tracy Anderson’s snake oil! It’s a load of bull excrement.
2 hours can be fine, depending on what you do. I think it’s weird, though, when you consider that Tracy Anderson is so opposed to women getting “bulky” so I feel like that would be 2 hours of dance workouts, pilates, and super light weights.
If you never published a story about her again, would anyone miss her?
No!
She’s a “Was” Girl. But she’s got kids to feed organically grown rare Madgascar lettuce to and prestigious, precious private schools that she has to send Apple and Mango to so they can make connected friends then quit and predictably go into show business….she’s hustlin’!
Did she have eye work done? She has that “my ponytail is too tight” look now.
Ah, the Croydon Facelift?
She is so… vacant.
She changes her story every year. I don’t believe a word she says anymore.
So true. I’d like to see a Carrie Mathison-esque color-coded bulletin board/ flow chart of all her personal health/diet/workout habits through the years. Macrobiotics–>One cigarette a day—->Meat and grains—–>5 hour workout in personal gym—->fatty french food—->just water diet—-> no workout but stand naked in front of the mirror while you eat….Not even Carrie off her meds could make sense of it all.
I’ve occasionally wondered if Goopy watches that show and is furious that she didn’t get that part, (not because she went for it, but as sometimes Claire Danes looks a bit like her, and because I imagine a lot of actors would have wanted that role). Glad she didn’t–can you imagine?
It must be nice not having to bother keeping your story straight…
“so the idea that you’re exercising and trying to eat well and then slathering yourself with chemicals, parabens, and silicones—it’s not great.”
And yet smoking cigarettes is … ?
It’s extra hilarious because she’s inhaling and putting those sweet cigarette chemicals right into the organ that is responsible for aerosolized chemical transmission to the blood.
She prefers to destroy her lungs because lungs aren’t visible. Looks over health eh Goopy?
Goop – the master of appearance over substance. Her poor children are going to learn from her and Chris that the exterior is what matters, no matter the expense of the interior.
I never in my life heard of someone so self-absorbed. It has to be draining to be near her. She’s basically no different than a Kardashian. I can almost hear her clawing faux English accent and smug expression on her face. At least she doesn’t appear to be in any movies anymore…..please don’t tell me otherwise!
I agree that it would be nice to find organic hair products that work as well as professional lines. I have yet to find anything that’s remotely comparable.
I think she probably does work out that much. She has the time to do it and I’m sure she has trainers who mix up her routine. I’d rather have her admit to that rather than lie and pretend that at 43 she doesn’t need to exercise to stay thin.
I unfortunately also have “bad hair” (fine and thin) -it sucks and I’m envious of people with thick, full names. Gwyneth is not helping herself by parting her hair in the middle and coloring it so blonde.
“I have to do it”? Every weekday morning. As in from Monday to Sunday? Two hours?
Really, imo, Goop seems to be naturally thin. Is she only promoting her fitness business?
No wonder she has osteopenia and low vitamin D.
probably osteoporotic at this point – she’s stepped up her game exercise-wise since she revealed the bone problem and has probably done more damage due to the frequency and duration of her w/o regime
Here hair would probably be just fine if she would stop flat-ironing the poor beast into submission. That kind of heat destroys hair.
She smoked like a chimney for years–probably still does. Endless pap shots of her and Brad Pitt during their relationship, sitting at outdoor cafe tables in a haze of cigarette smoke. She’s seriously annoying.
I eat milk and eat dark chocolate and check my e-mail every morning. I have to. lol! She so silly.
This woman doesn’t get it. You can’t sell something when you’re terrible in that market. Blake Lively can sell hair products. Why? Because she’s known for her hair. Blake Lively can’t sell artisanal products. Why? Because no one cares. So Goop how do you plan on selling hair and skin products when you’re like the last person I’d go to for that advise? If I want a tall, white, blonde woman selling me hair products, I’m going to Blake Lively.
You know she’s judging you for having that packet of chips.
I totally misread and thought she did work on the weekends, which would have actually been an interesting story.
Ok, I’m going to say it. For all the health advice she dishes and all the praise for her fitness trainers, I don’t see it. At all. Sure she’s thin, but that’s a dime a dozen. Those bikini pics recently show a petite woman who watches her weight and maybe jogs a few days a week. If that’s the best the top trainers in the country can do its a wonder people still pay them. Now, I’m not shaming her – I think she has a fine figure – but her gushing over her fitness regime is so over the top I really doubt there’s any substance behind it.
She is quite pretty. And apparently has issues cause she can’t stop talking about herself and her ever changing rigid diet regimes. Disturbing, and definitely not someone I would want to emulate.
She’s the worst advert for everything she shills.
truth.
I’ll prob get yelled at, but I’ve never thought Goopie had a great bod, glowing skin…all that bs her friends wrote about her. She’s just not v special. And two hours a day?!
And I’ll absolutely second that she has terrible hair…and not a pretty face. Now this sh_t doesn’t matter EXCEPT that she flounces around like she’s hot stuff. I’m not buying what you’re selling, babe.
I’ll have to google that intro that Jessica Seinfeld wrote about Goop’s stunning gorgeous. I’m in the mood to vomit.