Despite my extreme dislike of her hair, I do think Gwyneth Paltrow is ageing gracefully and naturally. There was a time, several years back, when I think she fooled around with Botox briefly, but these days I think Gwyneth is keeping it natural. As in, she probably pays thousands of dollars a month on facials and non-medical skin treatments, not to mention paying for the best makeup and maintenance. Add to that the fact that she has (sigh…) great bone structure, yet another thing for Gwyneth to be smug about. So yeah, I don’t see why a rich white woman in her 40s with access to the best of everything would complain about ageing. Thankfully, Gwyneth isn’t complaining. She told People Magazine that she actually “genuinely” loves her wrinkles and gray hair. Um-hm.
She isn’t fazed by ageing: “Of course I have wrinkles [and] gray hair. But I genuinely love it. This is who I am. I have been through incredible ups and downs and I feel so blessed that I have the wrinkles to tell the story.”
Being a grown woman: For the actress, who declared herself “a mess” in her 20s, being a “grown woman” has never felt better. “I feel good about [it]. I think it’s incredibly sexy. … And I wouldn’t want to erase years off my face or to travel back in time for anything.” Her secret to self-confidence? She says, “part of that is just accepting where you are in time and space.”
Being 5’9” tall is one of her insecurities: “I am kind of a gangly girl, but it was a lot worst when I was a teenager.”
She worries about motherhood: “I mean, the other night I was in the bath and I texted my best mom friend: ‘Am I f***ing this up?’” Her friend wrote back, “No! Breathe. We all feel this way, take a step back. Your kids are great.”
Parenting Moses & Apple: “It’s like going through childhood again, but standing next to the people that you love more than anybody in the world and helping them bear their heartaches and mistakes and triumphs.”
[From The Daily Mail & People]
I’m younger than Goop but I’ve noticed the small wrinkles around my eyes and… yeah, I don’t think I would say that I “genuinely love it.” The wrinkles don’t send me into a panic, nor am I super-bothered by my grey hair (which I’ve had since my early 20s). I like where I am with my age, but anyone who tells you that they “genuinely love” those wrinkles or grey streaks is just trying to sell you something. Same with Goop: she’s shilling her new book, Goop Clean Beauty. You too can love your wrinkles if you buy Goop’s book and her Juice Beauty products and spend tens of thousands of dollars on her Goop-branded clothes every season.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
Did she have jaw surgery (compared to pics when she was with Brad). Her jaw seemed different.
I think it was her short hair back then that made the jaw look stronger. Also your jaw can change size due to bruxism. My jaw is huge compared to a few years back when I wasn’t clenching my jaw at night 🙁
Her face filled out.
I think she got some filler and it softened up her face.
Yep. Restrained use of fillers and Botox is imperceptible in the right hands. It softens the aging process, not freeze it. I also think she’s had several laser treatments. She’s an example of good cosmetic work and a healthy diet.
Yes. She’s had filler & botox.
Oh god they feel the need to say that at one point. Every actress does. It makes them feel more real actors…. And then the most of all do everything possible to get younger both males and females.
So true. She’s over-selling it. If she said she was fine/accepting of her wrinkles, I’d buy it. But loving them? “Blessed”? Oh please. We’re all “blessed” with them after a certain age, but we don’t get all, ahem, “goopy” about it.
Ha! So true, Alix. Laughed at “but we don’t get all, ahem, goopy about it”. I have a very hard time believing any woman in this culture loves her wrinkles – her age and where she’s at in life, sure, but wouldn’t it be fabulous to have the experience and soul of a forty-something and look 20 again? 😉
Considering actresses in their late 20’s play the role of mothers to grown actors, she’s practically an elder in hollyweird terms, so yeah. Get with it.
Right. My thought as I was reading this was, “B-tch please!” She’s (very) white & Caucasian skin does not age well….plus all of her tropical vacations & time in the sun cause massive skin damage. She’s getting work done, trust. This “I’m so accepting of myself!” shtick is all branding to sell her books & products.
Yes, she had filler, botox, and i think shes had a microdermabrasian or peel done. Her skin doesnt look sun damaged anymore
@tback,
I get that you are generalizing (I think) but Caucasian skin can age beautifully. My beloved mother passed at age 70 and still had the best complexion. She was often mistaken for someone ten to fifteen years younger. I was not blessed with her skin but I wish I had been. Of note, she didn’t smoke or drink.
I miss her porcelain, pore less, face with those two soulful giant brown eyes more than I can ever express. I did get the eyes.
@Trip Garden yes I suppose I shouldn’t generalize. My (white) maternal grandmother had gorgeous skin as well but she didn’t frequently expose it to sun. I live in Palm Springs & people are really good about wearing sunscreen/visors/hats but the sun still takes its toll…more so on Caucasian skin in my experience.
5’9” isn’t tall…
The average height for women in the US is 5’4″ so 5’9″ is generally considered tall – although I live in an area of high Dutch concentration and at 5’7″, I’m regularly the shortest person around, lol!
I’m 5’3″ so I’m probably a hobbit, right?
@Rocio Yes. ;D
@Onerous I know it’s above US average but I’m 6′ and I’ve been 6′ since I was 13/14, so to hear her talk about feeling gangly at 5’9” sounds silly to me. I dunno. It rubs me the wrong way a little.
No, Rocio – that would be me, at 4′ 11″…..
@ichsi, it sounds like you are tall too, then.
I’m only 4′ 10″ so my butt gets tickled by grass when I run, but even from my biased perspective down here I’m pretty sure 5’9″ on a woman is considered tall. If I’m not mistaken that is close to the average height of a man. I could be making that up as I checked no facts.
I’m 5’9″ and I got my full height by the time I was 14 which was honestly really hard. I was taller than all the girls and most of the boys around me. School dances were a source of anxiety becuase I felt so weird being taller than my dancing partner. It honestly messed with my self esteem.
As a grown woman I love my height and I am indeed taller than most women from day to day. Not drastically so, but when I woman is taller than me it’s not an everyday occurance (I do like it though, I like seeing tall women now that I have confidence in myself). I married a man theee inches shorter than me and I love it.
But when you are a 5’9″ teenage girl it seems especially tall.
Here in Sweden 5,9 isn’t uncommonly tall for a woman (it’s about 175 cm). I’m 174 cm tall so almost Gwyneth’s height, and have been since I was 13-14 and I never felt that tall here at home but spending a year in a highschool in the U.S at 16 I felt so self-conscious about my height. And I would get a lot of “How’s the weather up there?” from tiny American teenage boys. They made me feel like a giant next to them. Naturally I chose a real Viking instead to marry – he’s 2 metres tall and makes me feel tiny and very feminine next to him. 😉 So it’s all about the context…
5’9″ here and I too get a little weirded out when another woman is taller than me because I’m just not used to it!
I’m also 5’9″. When I was younger, my best friend was super cute at about 4’10”. It was hard to be taller than all the guys; especially standing next to her. My parents told me to wait and I’ll like my height when I was older. I believed them and do like being tall now. I rarely look up very much to other women height wise, so I think I’m on the taller side.
To me that’s tall! (And I wish I could be so — congrats to all you tall people! I envy you! albeit in a good way. I admire your height! Being tall is what I’ve always wanted. But my genetics were against me).
Same here. And no one near 5′ looks good during pregnancy. I haven’t had a child, but I’m already so jealous of these tall, long torsoed women 8 months pregnant and glowing. Women my height just hear “you’re about to pop!” Or are described as “heavily pregnant.” Oh well, life’s not fair.
I think it depends, I’ve embraced my gray hair, because gray hair on young faces is trendy right now and I actually get asked a lot who dyed it to look salt and pepper. So I lucked out there. The wrinkles seemed to pop up one day. I was recently brushing my kids teeth and was caught in the mirror suddenly seeing my age. I think we all have that “yup it’s started” moment, but it’s all about how you handle it.
Also I look younger without make up now. So that was nice.
I would love to let my hair natural but the color (other than the gray) is HORRIBLE! I will eventually stop coloring it if it actually becomes all gray – or my hairdresser retires! She can’t say she is embracing her gray hair totally as she highlights (or completely colors) it. Wrinkles – don’t bother me at all!
She looks fantastic, but I do not buy she is aging 100% naturally…
Hmm I don’t see any gray hair or wrinkles
Yep – her forehead doesn’t move, so she’s full of it! (Less than many of her ilk, but not natural…)
I know, such BS. She loves them so much, that she can’t move her forehead amd runs to the hair colorist the minute a gray sprouts.
There’s lots of photos of Gwyneth out and about no makeup and with lines. I do think she is very comfortable with looking like that and not new big apple cheeks and lips and botoxed to death. Whatever she might do as she ages. It will just be to freshen up, small things.
Yes, she admitted to botox years ago (in saying she stopped it ) but she was wise not to mess with her lips or go otherwise overboard.
Pretty sure she has fillers in her cheeks and maybe even some botox around the eyes. She does look good though, not that over botoxed look
Yes!
She was in the bath texting her friend…as one does. For some reason that cracked me up.
I’m in the bath commenting…..hoping that my iPad doesn’t take an unexpected swim, but I’m sure Gwyneth has some office/bath hybrid. What a wonderful new thing to capitalize on! Can’t you just see the water-resistant desk blotter with a fountain pen holder and stationary station? Don’t forget the personalized wax stamps for sealing envelopes…sure to be on goop’s must-have gift list in 2017!
She looks great
grace jones looks great. Gwyneth looks like she has wealth and resources
What wrinkles?
To be honest, I don’t really see any in these photos either. I’m confused.
I actually quite like the lines around my eyes, I think they make me look more friendly in a way.
I don’t mind my lines around my eyes, either. I feel like I look ok for my age, almost 50, but I have hated the way my neck is starting to sag for a while now. Now I’m happy when the cold weather comes because it gives me an excuse to keep my scarf on!
Esmom, get a NuFace Trinity. Pricey but worth it, if you use it faithfully.
NSSB, thanks for the tip!
I agree! The NuFace is fantastic if you use it a few times per week or more and are consistent. I go to a salon, which offers microcurrent facials, and they are fantastic but costly. Now that I have NuFace, I only do them periodically. The NuFace rocks!
I actually do like my white hairs, I’m starting to get a few on my right side that almost look like a streak so I actually want more of them to grow in (my hair is black btw)
The smile lines though, those I am less than thrilled with. Still, I’ll live, and I don’t want to filler them out of existence or anything.
It’s easy to love your grey hair and wrinkles when you only have a few of each, so I hear this a lot from women in their early 40’s. The thing is, they are still young! I wonder if she’ll still like it 10 years from now when her face truly begins to sag, and the grey hairs are poking vertically out of her eyebrows, because that is when the real aging begins!
This! When I noticed my first few crow’s feet, I was rather intrigued. Not so much anymore!
I hear you. My mom has noticed on me, too, I think because she keeps giving me anti-wrinkle creams and saying “it might be too late for me but it’s not too late for you to do something.” I just laugh. But I actually have started using this one cream from Origins that I think might be helping my sagging neck a little bit. Or maybe it’s my imagination, hard to say.
I don’t really have wrinkles yet at 50, but the white eyebrow hairs give me fits. My brows are blond, and the white hairs look like tiny bald patches. Funny, not funny.
I’m blond (well blondish w/o help) but have dark eyebrows and those white grandpa hairs are giving me fits too! I use gels (like a mascara) in a dark blond to cover them up. Even when I’m home by myself… And I have to trim them or they will grow to be I-am-never-going-to-find-out how long.
Seriously. I just turned 50 and I feel the same way. I loved how I looked in my early-mid 40s. But the grey eyebrow hair and super wrinkley eyes that just started within the last year: ugh.
Yes. Easy to embrace a little aging in the early 40s – gives a little character. But now that I’m nearing 50, I’m not blasé about the aging – it feels real and um, permanent!
If Goop is talking, she’s schilling something.
She’s schilling of course but her mum (Blythe Danner) is a stunning woman and Goop will have good advice and a referral to an artful surgeon (rare in Hollywood!). Blythe has had a lot of work but it’s well done and I think Goop will be the same way as she ages (including the blonde/grey fusion hair that Blythe has rocked for many years).
This is true ( re her mom)
She clearly still uses SOME Botox and/or fillers, as her forehead is preternaturally smooth and shiny, and the line of her lips is definitely altered. She smoked for a long time, perhaps still does, so those cat butt mouth lines can’t be totally destroyed, but she’s done some shaping to mask them. She also colors her hair, so I guess she cares some about the grays. I mean, heck, so do I, and I’m a bit younger than her without a tenth of her wealth and genetic good fortune and only the occasional gray hair.
The thing most celebs could, but won’t, do to make their faces age better, ACTUALLY naturally, versus, claiming to do so, is gain 5-10 pounds as they age. Keeping yourself exceptionally thin is always gonna make your face look haggard. I could stand to lose some right now, but I definitely adjusted my “goal” weight after I turned 35, because when I actually hit the place I’d looked great at when I was 25, I suddenly looked like an old hag in the face. Gaining just a smidge back took years off my face, even if I had to go up a size in my jeans as well … A trade-off few stars are willing, or perhaps more accurately culturally able, to make, hence the fillers, Botox, nips and tucks to try to fend off father time.
Honestly, Goop looks great, and I wouldn’t be nitpicking if she didn’t claim to “not care” and “do everything 100% naturally.” I think she’s kept what she’s done to her face at a minimum, so far. Genetics is a huge factor, so to look at her mom, Blythe Danner, who has obviously also had some work done … But it’s good work and she has allowed herself to age gently (vs, say Goldie Hawn who is chasing her 30-something self so hard), so I suspect Gwyneth will follow in those elegant footsteps, and I never expect to see her looking like The Cat Lady. Still, that doesn’t mean she does nothing, or “doesn’t care.” (Nothing wrong with that; Most of us do, to some extent.)
“This is who I am.” Sure, post nose job, colored contact lenses and bleached hair. I guess she didn’t realize this image was out there: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/f0/c7/43/f0c743c439c271155fe58e5644cd98dc.jpg
Wow. A lot of work went into creating Goop’s “Grace Kelly” patrician look.
Oh wow, she too had a nose job? Or did she? And now she thinks she invented “gray hair.”
Her nose is entirely different, which I had suspected, but I didn’t know she had brown eyes.
Clean beauty, indeed!
I have blue eyes but I don’t understand why brown eyed people wear contacts to lighten their eye color. Brown eyes are beautiful.
She definitely looks more like her dad then, versus resembling her Mom now.
Thanks for the link, I was going to dig up something similar when I read about her being so accepting of who she is. Ha!
I think she looks stunning in that picture. Say what you want about Gwyneth, but she was a beauty when she was young. She still is very pretty, but I think her old nose suited her better. And I love the blonde hair dark eyes combo.
Interesting– wrinkles in her neck very early. While smoking & sun have something to do with it, clearly so do genes. And how do her grey hairs even show up if she’s always maintaining the blonde?
I don’t see any wrinkles in her neck in these photos. Those ones look like the standard ones everybody, including 19 year olds, have. I don’t know if they’ve been photoshopped out though.
Funny how people can look at the same photo & see different things. I thought her neck wrinkles obvious in that earlier photo. I had no noticeable neck wrinkles until well into my 30s.
Her eyes are blue https://www.google.com.ar/search?q=gwyneth+paltrow+eyes&safe=off&client=ms-android-motorola&prmd=ivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjG0KCwnKTRAhVCTZAKHdQiAh0Q_AUIBygB&biw=360&bih=512#safe=off&tbm=isch&q=gwyneth+paltrow+young&imgrc=gPoHz73PMEoLsM%3A but she has had a lot of work done. Overall I think she looks good.
Hee hee! She was so much more interesting-looking as a brunette.
Wow – I didn’t realize how much she had changed herself. What a darling girl she was.
Sure, she’s says that now…until she’s shilling some $1000/ounce wrinkle cream or some ridiculous hair dye.
Gwenyth has a long history of saying what she thinks people want her to, or whatever coincides with whatever book or product she’s pushing that month.
But what exactly is Goop schilling? She is not “an actress” any more, just an actor who shows up recently in terrible movies. Iron Man *gack!*
At 5’9″ she’s above average for female height in the US, but is Lilliputian in Sweden or central Africa.
Her new book.
“..I think she fooled around with Botox briefly, but these days I think Gwyneth is keeping it natural.” Ha! You don’t get that line-free forehead without big help. And I would be surprised if other areas aren’t being addressed, too.
Please these ppl don’t know anything natural
About her height : she seems to mention that being gangly was her insecurity, not actually being 5’9″ or tall (at least in what’s excerpted). I don’t find her description wrong: she is kind of gangly looking. Someone like Cindy Crawford is tall too like Gwyneth, but she isn’t really gangly looking. So I think debating whether she would be tall or not in other parts of the world doesn’t necessarily apply to what she actually said.
I don’t even like Gwyneth, so I don’t know why I’m parsing her words.
She has acted opposite Tom Cruise, so I can see why she would perceive herself as tall (which I think she genuinely is anyway). In her world of Hollywood people, she really is taller than people like Dustin Hoffmann and Ben Stiller.
I think you make a good point about her being gangly. She’s not that tall but she doesn’t seem comfortable–she doesn’t stand up straight, she slouches and her posture is awkward. I’m 5′ 11” and my daughter is 5′ 10″. My daughter is just naturally graceful, she always has been. She somehow always holds herself well. Goopy doesn’t.
Wrinkles if she wants but gray hair? Seriously? Jokes!
Goop lives for one thing and one thing only-for her to look better than you. I don’t believe a word of it.
She looks great. Healthy and vibrant.
Someone mentioned this on another Goop thread and now my radar is going off. She tends to say “a friend told me … (that I’m superior in some way)” and now here she’s done it with her parenting. If she’s so self-assured, why does it seem her perception of herself comes thru the eyes of others? Why can’t she say “I just feel like a F up as a mom sometimes” without the “but let me assure you I’m not. My friends say it’s so.”
Just admit that you’re as (if not more) insecure than us peasants, eh?
She does this ALL the time, it’s hilarious.
There’s no gray if you color your hair! Look at her roots!
She’s been using fillers for years. Also, it’s easy to say you’re ok with ‘aging’ in your 40’s when filler and botox can still help you look great. Wait until post-menopause when everything starts to actually sag and fall then get back to us, lol.
She’s so full of organic bullshit.