Gwyneth Paltrow must think that she’s the ultimate Renaissance Woman or something. Never mind that she just admitted that trying to do more than one thing at a time totally stresses her out, for Goop has decided that she’s much more than merely a mother, actress, model, blogger, singer, gym owner, a cookbook writer (who uses a ghostwriter, natch), and all around amazing person with an amazing work ethic.
Now Gwyneth has decided that she must be everything to everybody (you know how she lives to serve her peasants), so she’s seriously considering opening her own restaurant because, you know, there are no decent places to grab a meal in Los Angeles, right? Guess who’s helping Goop deal with the finer details of how to operate a restaurant? That’s right, her dear friend Mario Batali. Here’s the story from this week’s Star:
Gwyneth Patlrow is planning to open a world-class restaurant in Los Angeles. An insider tells Star, “She’s talking with her good friend, chef Mario Batali, about opening a place that specializes in Spanish cuisine. She wants to have a place where she can entertain her L.A. friends.”
While Gwyn, 39, is a well-known foodie and a fan of entertaining, it was Mario, 51, who pushed her to pursue her culinary dreams. “He gave her the confidence to take it to the next level and start thinking of concepts and locations. It will be a huge ego boost for her to be a restaurant owner.”
Phew — without this eatery, all she’d have is millions of dollars, a killer body and a rock-star husband.
Oh the humanity!
[From Star, print edition, September 3, 2012]
Can you imagine dining in a restaurant owned by the Goop? First off, a simple starter soup will probably cost $39 because it will be based upon only the finest tears from Spanish orphans. And if a fat person ever enters the building, Gwyneth will likely tell them they shouldn’t eat anything. Hell, she’d probably have a weigh-in at the door, and then when people are done eating, the very special Goop cleanse will be part of the dessert menu. How splendid!
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet
Ugh.
I absolutely loath her after her ‘n*** in paris FOR REAL’ tweet.
ya, that was pretty bad.
I don’t know about the food but it would be a definate celeb hang place since she only hangs with people she thinks are on the A-list!
Yes, I have a feeling if she open it in LA, it would actually be a success. Finally, a place where celebrities like supermodels, actress, etc, can eat without worrying the nutrition and calories. Gwen would definitely take care of that. 😀
Maybe she’ll succeed. I do hope that something ends up going really well for her; that way maybe she’d feel less unaccomplished and stop reminding us all of our flaws and how perfect she is by comparison.
She’s a poor, insecure soul who needs some winning in something, since she apparently can’t win with her husband.
Edit: @Sadie, good for her! About time 🙂
Weirdly enough her and her husband seem to be in a really good place. It’s like he woke up to his douche ways.
If by “being in a good place,” you mean he tries to keep her at least one continent away from him at all times, then yes, they are in a good place. As for Martin being a douche nugget, of course he can be. But she has far and away suppressed him in every measurement available.
Do you by chance mean “surpassed” him in every way? Because then I would have to say +100! Just when thought I couldn’t dislike her more ~ I read about this latest venture! Gah ~ A fly in every (clear liquid broth only) soup!
probably find a hair in the soup
a flat ironed hair.
LOL!!! Too Good!
I’m sure fried hair will be on the menu…seriously this is an anemic, wan, harsh looking brittle 40 yr old woman.
Her legs are killer but the rest of her looks like death.
No one with that many food/body issues should open a restaurant!
this woman is too much, she’s sp ridiculous
she’ll call the restaurant “fishsticks” and the plates will be empty, save for a box of the goop cleanse.
I think she would be successful in owning a restaurant. She has the resources to pull it off and her receipes seem decent. I’m not a Dan but I think she is being realistic about her future.
Do you mean her recipes that she cribbed from all her A-listed chef friends around the world that were in her ghost-written cookbook?
See, I think that at the Goop Kitchen, really skinny-gorgeous-blonde waitresses will serve really yum-fatty-delish food (you know how Goopsticks can be all sanctimonious about loving her food and being able to indulge because she works out for 17 hours a day and “every woman can find the time too if they really want it” etc) but then (here’s the kicker!) on the way out, they’ll have all this marketing material for Tracey Chipmunk Anderson workout stuff, and they’ll ever so subtley make you feel enormously guilty for the massively-expensive and calorically-dense meal you’ve just consumed, and hit your wallet with the double-whammy on the way out by getting you to pay for a workout DVD or a DIY Goop Enema kit or something…
spanish food! YAY!!!
Yipes! not giving goop an inch on this board today. I thought she refuted the ghostwriting charge convincingly…
julia turshen is the professional credited with “helping” goop write/test/whatever the recipes. goop did say she wrote every word herself; not every recipe. if she claims to have created all the recipes she’s even more ignorant than imaginable. seems like every recipe was her dad’s this, mom’s that, chef such-and-so’s recipe for the other. as stated by her own words.
also, people need a recipe for BLTs?!?!?! the name says it all. bacon, lettuce, tomato. it took a 5 star chef to help her figure that out.
she doesn’t eat and when she does she punishes herself. not healthy or smart.
i just can’t with her, nothing against you or if you like her.
Yes, that is an important distinction. I can’t bring myself to like goop although I am impressed that she keeps putting herself out there, trying new things. And I feel a bit sorry for her as it seems she adores her husband and he seems somewhat lukewarm about her. But it’s definitely misplaced pity as she would pity me for my far less than rock hard abs.
I hate that she gets allied a “foodie”. To be one you actually have to eat food. This woman cleanses (starves) her way through life. She’s just desperate to find another source of income since the movie offers aren’t what they were. As for over extending herself and doing too much at once…that’s a little trick people use to keep from dealing with a larger issue in their life. Like a straying husband perhaps….
Another Batali restaurant?
I wish she would quit copying or trying emulate the late Carolyn besset Kennedy in mid 90’s hair department. For REALZ.
So while you see her copying Carolyn Beset’s hair I see her copying Catherine Deneuve’s face. Is it just the makeup or is she trying to look like Deneuve with the help of a surgeon?
I just saw “Manon 70” and I kept being reminded of Goop’s current look throughout. She didn’t look at all like Deneuve in her earlier pictures.
I love Gwyneth! She’s my favorite celeb. Yes, I know Lainey and I are in the minority here.
God is she fit.
‘the finest tears from Spanish orphans’
LMMFAOH!!!
classic! 😆
This woman is living proof that it is indeed possible to have *too much* self-confidence.
I don’t know. She doesn’t bother me. She comes off as pretentious, sure, but it doesn’t turn me off to her. I’m in the minority, I know, but she seems to just be following her bliss. A cheezy sentiment? Yep. Can’t explain it. 🙂