I don’t know about you, but as a 37-year-old woman, I’ve grown rather tired of people asking me whether I ever plan on having another child besides the 11-year-old daughter who already exists and occupies what feels like most of my time on a daily basis. Don’t get me wrong — I love the hell out of my kid, but I don’t think I could ever go there again, especially since she’s getting up there in age, you know? So it comes as a great surprise that I actually have something in common with Gwyneth Paltrow (besides our mutual love of woodburning pizza ovens and quarterly colon cleanses, natch). Goopy (who is 39 these days) doesn’t want to have any more kids either.
Of course, Goop is already mother to two children, Apple (8) and Moses (6), but she’s so busy these days Gooping it up; that is, running her “lifestyle company curated by Gwyneth Paltrow.” This week, she’s selling a set of 4 Turkish towels for $240! This is not to mention the $425 colon cleanse, $270 acrylic tray, and $90 t-shirt for her fawning peasants, right? Plus she’s busy launching her pub-singing career while somehow managing to still land herself in those Iron Man movies (she’s currently filming part three). But seriously, I get it in regard to wanting to reclaim one’s life instead of going through the nursing and diaper routine for months, possibly years. Here are some excerpts of Goopy wisdom:
On having more children: “I don’t know if I can go back to diapers. I don’t think so. I would love to, but I sort of feel like I don’t know if I can go back to diapers and things like that. I’m so past that, I think I may have missed the window. I think if maybe when Moses was three, I would have done it, or four even, but now he’s six and such a guy, I feel like I’m out of the baby phase. If it happens, it happens.”
Becoming a mom completed her: “I feel like motherhood has given me all my happiness and a real life: a husband, my children and everything that’s invested in that. Every woman is different, but for me that’s where I’ve gotten my real happiness.”
But she’s a less attentive mother in Los Angeles: “When I’m in LA, I’m always packing things in. I tend to be really busy – my doctors are out there, Apple’s orthodontist, that kind of thing. Plus, that’s where I focus on movie stuff and I see all my friends. It changes more – I tend not to spend all my time with the kids.”
She’s so stressed out and busy now: “I find that I get stressed out when I try to do too many things at once, and so I try not to. I feel very stressed out if I’m trying to cook and help the children with their homework and answer emails and talk to my lawyer or whatever. I feel really overwhelmed. So I try to just do things one at a time.”
She doesn’t mind aging — for now: “I like being older. It’s nice to really know yourself and feel relaxed. And I actually think I look better now than I did when I was 24, so I’m very comfortable with myself.”
[From Daily Mail]
So Goop thinks she looks better now than she does when she filmed Sliding Doors and A Perfect Murder? I guess it’s great that she’s happy with the way she looks, but it seems to be such a self-punishing lifestyle that she leads, what with the fasting and constant flat-ironing of one’s hair. Gwyneth is so stringent.
Now back to the whole “done with diapers” notion. At least Apple and Moses won’t have a companion to share in their humiliation of rediscovering Mommy’s sideboob one day on the internet, right? Small mercies.
Photos courtesy of WENN
Just reading this totally stressed me out, and stuff. I need to talk to my lawyer/guru and get a high colonic, but not at the same time. One thing at a time, peasants.
@Mimi – I totally agree! This made me so stressy, I had to ask myself, is this YOU too? And I had to answer: Yes! So I rang for my houseman Guillermo to bring me a soothing green tea, and I told my maid Shiva to handle the lawyer this morning. Are you doing the same? I can promise you that I’ve totally pushed my talk with my helicopter captain to TOMORROW. I can’t do it all. Take care, have to run, facial time, god — do the demands ever end, you know? Of course, I keep the children in Corfu now; much easier.
My chauffeur gives the best high colonics ever!
LMAO! Thanks for a Tuesday dose of Happy.
Luberty you are hilarious. Can I be a subscriber to your responses? Seriously is she stressed? I wonder if she has Two nannies for each kid!
Liberty you are hilarious!!! Can I be a subscriber to your responses? Seriously is she stressed? I wonder if she has Two nannies for each kid!
Liberty you are hilarious!!! Can I be a subscriber to your responses? Seriously is she stressed? I wonder if she has Two nannies for each kid!!!!
Liberty you are hilarious!!! Can I be a subscriber to your responses? Seriously is she stressed? I wonder if she has Two nannies for each kid!!
Well, my personal life coach/spiritual manager turned me on to the latest – a reverse high colonic. From what usually comes out of her mouth, Gwenyth is clearly a big fan of it.
You girls are in top form today!
::still giggling::
@mia girl, so sorry, my asses’ milk facial took forever (yes I had the girl fired!). A thousand hugs for the jeans tip! I am simply foaming for them now! Nimes! Quelle sexy fashion students! I’ll ask my astrologer about this but don’t you think the name Indigo MUST be a sign of some sort? Do say you can get me “invited” for a pair! If it helps, I will order ten? I simply must have this! I too am prone to tipping the Guinness in the evening, even more than a pint when Harry and Wills come over to watch the telly, so these sound utterly must-have. Reveal: I have tiny tiny scars too from the time we all got too oopsie daisy in Ibizia and I had my hips pierced, so these sound like hot heaven! Hugs! list me!
@miagirl, tres apologies, meant to post this below re your denim comment, but Guillermo bumped my arm with a tray of braised truffles. I should slap him, but he’s so cute in his uni.
@boredsub – darling! so lucky!! That way you can do two things at once – shop AND colonicize! I take it he’s quite good with his hands? waxing too? such a treasure!
@miagirl – dear, brilliant and, an astute observie! I think you really must start a caring blog for the masses, so in NEED now, on which you can explain this? Can your people conjure up an at-home kit? Small q: which sort of jeans do you wear after?
I’m riding the train, checking my email on the way to work while listening to NPR and I realized IT’S ALL TOO MUCH! I need an assistant for these things or an isreal mud bath with my $240 towels.
@Liberty – Stroke of luck that that you bring up jeans, dear. I just received a luscious pair of denimes. They are custom made (of course) in an atelier in the origin city of Nimes, France. The twill fabric is handled only by three young local fashion students, all named Indigo. And funny enough, the première of the workroom calls herself Azul. It’s all so charming.
These demines hug in all the right places. You could hardly tell I drank that pint last night (another thing Gwyneth and I have in common – our love of Guinness!). Best of all, the demines bare a special treatment in the waist and derrière areas which discreetly hide the “love-myself” scars I have from my last visit to Dr. Brandt!
Here’s the wrinkle dear… you must be “invited” to buy a pair. I’ll try to put in a good word for you with the shoppe in London that manages the list. I warn you though, they may ask for your credentials.
Absolutely the best GOOP reponses ever-thank you for the laughs this am!
You lasses are scary gifted. Like, GOOP gifted.
ROFL LMAO. OMG! I’m dying in here reading the comments of everybody! 😀
I think she looks good and takes good care of herself. Her fashion choices are sometimes unfortunate.. see photo number 1.
Cos shes got millions at her disposal. >:/
Sure, Gwyneth looks like she did when she was 24– only with the face of a 40 year old. CHANGE YOUR LOOK AND HAVE A SEAT, GOOP. Tired of hearing how highly you esteem yourself.
I think her face looks ROUGH!
+1
Eh, I like Gwyneth . She may have an occassional bout of verbal diarrhea and say pretentious shite , but overall she’s harmless.
I think that’s a good way of putting it. I’ve been known at times to steal a couple of recipes off her goop site, and they were all I could really stomach after surgery.
So she’s got a pass in my book.
Totally agree. Her cookbook is really good, by the way.
You mean the recipes written by her ghostwriter, chef Julia Turshen? I’m sure those dishes are tasty, but how much you wanna bet that Julia created most of those recipes and Gwyneth took most of the credit? It’s no different than those celebrities who paste their name on a fashion line designed by others.
Gwyneth is such a healthy eater, she was diagnosed with osteopenia (a precursor to osteoporosis). She sells her own brand of colon cleanse (completely ridiculous, since your body eliminates toxins on its own).
Yeah, I’m not buying the celebrity-endorsed bullsh*t she’s selling.
She doesn’t look better now than at 24. She just employs better stylists and makeup artists to doll her up. And after all that, she’s still a malnourished size 4 plain Jane.
Yeah, I can’t really hate on her. There are people in Hollywood far more insufferable. And at least she’s a working actor with a decent resume (including an Oscar), which is more than most celebs these days (cough Kardashians cough).
Of course she does.
Maybe you look better but when you were 24 you were and actress. Now you are 40 and you are… who are you today?
Weird, ha? Taht she said THAT age, why not 20, or 18? It had to be 24…
Her sartorial choices do not blow me away.
Haha. Yeah whatever. Dear Goop, I actually think you look no better than Kate Capshaw who is Steven Spielberg’s wife, older than you and she raises something like 10 kids including their adopted ones. We don’t hear about her being stressed out by all her colonics and their homework.
If I could afford an assistant and a nanny to help change diapers I would have or adopt a few more kids. Plenty of people wish they could afford to do this.
A quick look at her wiki says she was with Brad Pitt when she was 24, is that what we are supposed to be thinking of, Gwyn? Another one of your coat-tail references to Brad? What is it with those exes?
Tired of her–not a good movie since Shakesspeare in Love and Sliding Doors, too full of herself and too full of disdain for others.
Does anyone remember what she really looked like before the flat iron and dye jobs in “Malice” (not a bad movie with Nicole Kidman). She had frizzy dishwater brown hair, and it also appears she had a bit of surgery since then.
ita. she has definitely had “adjustments” done to her face since she started. bulimia jaw shaved down, the eyelids done a few times, her nose jobs have been subtle. she can swear she’s never done botox but her mom contradicted her about being ‘all natural’. she’s stupid, fake, and full of herself.
who will be the next goop bestie when she’s finished with beyonce? she doesn’t keep her bffs around more than a few years. the older goop becomes the longer the ex-bestie list gets! the longer it gets, the more obvious it is that goopers is a status climber and a clinger.
goop fans always bring up that she has tons of friends but she certainly burns bridges when she’s finished.
goop a genuine friend or nice lady? only if you can do something for her.
At least she didn’t spew some elitist bullcrap about how having more than two children is draining. And it sounds to me like she raised her kids herself for the most part
I like Gwyneth; she’s kind of pretentious, but she doesn’t abandon her kids to run around partying and go to clubs and she tries to live an intellectual lifestyle, which seems anathemic to society nowadays. If we live in a world where Snooki is famous and popular, we have serious issues. I like that she doesn’t feel like once her kids are beyond the baby stage, she needs to have MORE kids to do- what? Always be pushing a stroller? Staying young because she has a baby? You’re not any less of a parent because your child(ren) are no longer babies or toddlers. I see that mentality a lot (and have it aimed at me and my kids are 7 and 4, which is not that old yet) but I don’t get it. It’s like people don’t know what to do once the kids are not in diapers or really needy. And I like that she’s cool with turning 40. I think her type A personality is just that and always has been.
She is very dedicated, but I bet she would look better if she ate a cheesburger, or the most expansieve pain au chocolat sometimes.
I admire her discipline.
that is the funniest thing i’ve ever heard…….leathery skin and straw fried orange hair, ya, you look real good.
come on, really? better than 24, yikes, what lala world are you living in?
I loved her haircut in “Perfect Murder,” and most of her outfits. And the apartment they lived in. That’s about it. I wish she’d stop with the ironed hair and side-boob. Her legs look good. Seriously though – hasn’t she been “37” for years? I thought she was at least 40 by now.
She’s 39, not 37, this article is incorrect. I had to look it up because I knew she was several years older than me, not just 2!
Love Gwyneth
Ultra discreet and loyal considering how much s8it she has seen up close.
She’s annoying but she’s harmless. I do have to say she has a fantastic body for any age.
Saw her in “Hard Eight” (one of PTA first movies) just a few weeks ago. She gave a jaw dropping performance. I feel she gets a lot of guff for saying honest things, maybe we are too much used to celebs appearing as a persona and saying things that are just appeasing. I guess she is a good and dedicated mother and I like that she loves to cook. Yes her website is a bit too elitist. A plastic tray – pleeaze, that’s more …. like …. tacky. If she could post her training regimen on getting legs like she has I would appreciate that more. And I hope to see her more giving knock out performances in movies in the future than talking about colon cleansing. I don’t really get the massive hate she gets, honestly there are a lot more annoying and less talented actresses out there.
Unfortunately I think she gets her legs from that crazy Tracey Anderson trainer. They are to die for, though.
From the neck down she looks great. But other wise boring and lame like a soggy piece of white bread….. melted vanilla ice cream. She’s blah.
I wish she would embrace being more sensual gain a few…have wild crazy bed hair…stencil in some eyebrows…. Wear some frigging lipstick a push up bra…
Ha! I love how she slipped in that her children’s dental care is handled in America. Shade!
And ALL her doctors…not so fond of the British health care system, I gather…
$240 for towels.
I give her credit at least for saying children gave HER happiness and recognizing that everyone is different. Though I imagine she secretly looks down on childless friends…
I think she, not so secretly, looks down on most people.
I want those boots of hers in that last pic. That is all.
I hate myself for wanting that black jacket with the gray piping.
Don’t beat yourself up too much about it, I love it too.
she’s 39…if going to “all” her doctors takes up most of her time in LA than she needs to rethink her health regiment.
unless by “doctors” she means getting botoxed, having her chakras realigned and a hose stuffed up her butt.
She still looks great, but she’s lying to herself if she thinks she looks better now than at 24. Because she doesn’t.
She also had horrible post partum depression-so I’m sure that didn’t make having another baby very appealing. And I felt the same way when I was in my late 30s-I looked better than when I was in my 20s. For me, a lot of that had to do with taking better care of myself and being more self confident. (I don’t think she’s ever suffered in that area.)
Wait, what!? In “perfect murder” she was only 24!?!
You’ve GOT to be kidding me! I thought she was at least 30 in that movie! 27 at the youngest and I’m being generous…
Has she always lied about her age or does she just look older naturally?
I’m actually shocked….that’s the oldest looking 24 year old I’ve ever seen and I find her replacement Blake Lively old(er) looking (27-ish) and she’s 24!
Wow.
She’s aging horribly, though. Her skin is leathery and her face is really hard.
Can’t stand the woman AT ALL.
Let me get this straight…the poor girl is stressed by simply having to cook for her family, answer an email and help her kids with homework..but she want’s me to read her blog about how she supposedly has it all together?!
*sigh* Gwynnie left the land of reality looong ago.
“…so I’m very comfortable with myself.”
of course you are, Goopy-Gwyn, of course you are. *ralph* 🙄
She would never Ralph unless it was Lauren, she’s more likely to Stella McFartney.
I agree, she does look better now. I dont know why she gets such a bad wrap, she’s cornered into one of those positions where everything she says is snitty even if it isnt.
I agree 100% I don’t get the goop hate myself, probably because she reminds me of my mom. Type A, regimented perfectionist introvert. Words easily misinterpurted. I don’t think she tries to be pretentious, but more feels like she’s helinf/gets pleasure from informing people of her “finds”, which she obviously has some
Introvert? Really?
Wow posting via cell is annoying…I was saying she probably think she’s helping & takes pleasure sharing her”finds” which it seems there is a market for. I can’t fault her for having a different sense of reality, no matter how unrelatable
Sorry, meant my mom is an introvert. Gwennie is more of the Hollywood narcissist variety
@ shewolf
Agree with U, sometimes it’s almost irrational. Just the fact she did not stay with Pitt, who always needs famewh-res to be his partners makes me like her a lot. She is private.
Her body looks better now but her face looks better then (her skin sometimes looks leathery now). But she definitely looks happier now then in the Sliding Doors and Perfect Murder days.
I think she does look better in a more elitist polished way .. If that’s better , not sure. Wait she’s always been part of that snob crowd . Now she’s just head bitch .
I think she does look better in a more elitist polished way .. If that’s better , not sure. Wait she’s always been part of that snob crowd . Now she’s just head bi$$&
her skin looks like leather. Her hair and body are on point – however!
Bitch please. The reality is she has more money to spend on herself (via stylist, of course)
She looks better now bc of plastic surgery..simple as THAT
Give me a break. You should have did a photo comparison of her now with a still of her in Shakespeare in Love. I remember that her fashion was much worse back then, but come on! She was in her early 20s! Her skin was more supple and she simply looked younger. We all did at 24 and I’m pretty sure there aren’t at least some aspects of her 20s she wouldn’t want to have back. I doubt she exercised and starved herself to death back then the way she does now that she is older. Perhaps she is more content with her life now that she has a family and is established as an A-lister and that makes her more comfortable even though she clearly looks her age with more wrinkles.
This is nuts, nobody @ almost 40 can truly think they look better than @ 24 unless they’re delusional.
what does GOOP mean? the sound of it suits her but I’d like to know the actual definition
She said that it’s her nickname (comes from her initials GP)- it’s what her friends call her.
Why is she so awful and annoying? I can’t put my finger on it but she is so subtly arrogant.
She is so superficial! Her chosen profession as of late is being a full-time celebrity. What could be worse? And yet she acts like she is some kind of role model. Sorry Goop but I do not look up to people like you. Get a grip.
Ah no, anyone who thinks they look better at 40 than 24 is delusional.
Why? It’s unusual but some people genuinely DO look better with age – and 40 is hardly ancient. I’ve never thought Gwynnie was a great beauty but she does still look good. It’s almost as though she hasn’t aged that much – in her 20s she looked way older than her age, and now she looks about right.
She had a good movie in 09 called Two Lovers. The acting and story were first class though joaquin phoenix’s retirement from acting definately distracted publicity for the film.
I have to agree the first comments on this post made me laugh harder than I ever have on this site. That was soooooo funny.
I don’t buy that Goop lives that healthy of a lifestyle because, imo, she looks older than her age (face anyway). Something about her skin looks old, she doesn’t really have any radiance. I suspect she drinks a lot more than people realize. Nothing ages the skin faster (besides tanning).
BTW, I do love the dress.
Sorry but I feel that I look better at 38, than I did at 24. I have more style now, I work out now and moisturize a lot. It can happen.
You know, she’s a woman with a strong opinion about many things. And some people don’t like or “get” that. Come on, let her step into the ring and do her thing. I say great job and you look wonderful for your age.
She looks better as a ginger. The blonde is making her face look either older or as someone said too hard.
I think she looks great. She is such a classy broad. Graceful and stylish, too.