For all the crap I give Gwyneth Paltrow, I did feel a pang of sympathy for her in these photos. Gwyneth was at LAX a few days ago, carrying (or rolling) her own luggage, and homegirl looked stressed. Probably because she was surrounded by screaming paparazzi and a million flashes going off. So… let’s at least give her some credit for being able to make it into LAX without losing her cool, and while handling her own luggage too. Of course, one of the bags is Chanel (from the new “Graffiti” collection) and it costs $3800. I’m sure she got it for free.
Meanwhile, would you like to hear about this week’s Goop-letter? It’s about food. AND reading. Gwyneth has deigned to start a book club… a book club only for cookbooks.
This was not my idea. The cookbook club. Which is probably why it’s so good. While I have always liked the idea of a book club (sorta) I am just not that type of gal. Until one of my gorgeous girls suggested we do a different book club of sorts. A cookbook club! Now, as someone who gets in bed and reads cookbooks cover to cover as if they were novels, this idea was scintillating. We set off to find the ideal book to kick it off using the same criteria we would if we were choosing a novel, something challenging, beautiful, and with the possibility of becoming a classic. We landed on Roberta’s Cookbook. And we smoked our own fish, dammit. Please cook with us and tell us what you learned, how you modified, and what the next instructional cooking club tome should be (@goop). Happy cooking.
Love,
gp
Goop also asks us to tweet about it too, using the hastag #goopcookbookclub. I double-dog dare you to tweet her about the fact that she’s recommending a recipe that involves (GASP) pasta. THE HORROR. This might be the most gauche thing she’s ever done! Trying to interact with the peasantry about… food. Ugh! To be fair, I glanced through the recipes and most of them seem like a lot of work (you have to make your own pasta and buy and cook sea urchin tongues), but none of the recipes are grossly offensive, in the vein of “one grape, cubed and garnished with a Tic Tac.”
Oh, and I feel like she’s judging people who belong to book clubs – “While I have always liked the idea of a book club (sorta) I am just not that type of gal.” Book clubs are for peasants, I suppose. Plus, I don’t imagine Gwyneth’s elite circle of friends are big readers.
Last thing: is she wearing Apple’s leather jacket? Right? That’s like a kid’s jacket.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and Goop.
ha she probably got her tote for FREE too. Seeding…
It’s always funny how the people who can afford this crap get it for free
I wouldn’t pay $20 for that fug bag though
http://www.piemonteoggi.it/news/verc_borse.jpg
Meh, it seems kinda sad that she reads cookbooks like novels, fantasizing about all the food that will never cross her lips. She should give actual novels a try before she knocks them.
Yes her jacket is a bit snug but I think she looks kinda cute. The shoes caught my eye.
Yup, love the shoes!
I think she looks cute. I like the shoes.
This was my first thought, too. She reads about food instead of eating.
In true anorexic, orthorexic fashion. Yes. I was one for ten years. I was obsessed with looking at food and cooking it and reading about it but never ever eating anything but apples and pretzels. She’s sick and anyone’s whose ever been sick can see it really easily.
Shazzer is totally right. And Gwyneth, as a control freak who has lost all control this will worsen. Heart would go out to anyone but her…she has caused more suffering than she can ever experience. And this is so obvious PR ploy, she actually has her assistants or bodyguards typically carry her purse to gym for her – true. She will stop at nothing to regain her image and spite Chris for showing world how happy he is, and her concerns are all about her image, even before her kids. All we can do is pray her children do not grow up with a disorder as well – another reason Chris wants official papers drawn up which she is fighting tooth and nail BTW,
“She should give actual novels a try …”
She should give actual food a try!
Lol
Another vote that the shoes are cute. Anyone know where they are from? (prob out of my price range but still)
Those are Vince shoes. Not cheap but I think reasonable.
love her leather jacket. Couldn’t care less about the bag. Waste of money
She probably looks at all of the “pretty pictures”.
Her carryon suitcase looks like Rimowa – I covet it deeply: http://www.mrporter.com/Shop/Designers/Rimowa?cm_mmc=GoogleAUt-_-Designer_-_Rimowa-_-Rimowa_-_Exact-_-rimowa-mt:e-sn:g&gclid=CK3Qgcn7wb4CFYmXvQodiZoAeQ
And of course lets not pretend that there isn’t someone wheeling a trolley with the rest of her luggage. Girlfriend does not travel with a tote, purse and carryon only..!
God, that Chanel bag is hideous! I know she got it for free but I still ask myself why anyone one buy that thing. It’s g-damn ugly and it’s one of those bags that will never make it past one season.
My thoughts exactly, Hannah. That whole Chanel line of those hideous bags are Karl’s way of forcing an ugly trend on the wanna-be crowd.
it’s true I do not know if you saw the latest collection but it was the great n anything, I think Karl did more than any of inspiration but it is such monuments Channel can not separate sen j have the impression that it makes good 10 years that he has not made a beautiful collection elsewhere if you look things well functioning bags jackets c is that old things
Dior since the departure of Galliano c is c is even worse disaster!
Agreed. I did a double-take over its hideousness.
It’s funny I saw all the color and the ropes and twisters on the bag and figured it was something her kids made her and that was why she carried it so proudly!
Moreover, the graffiti thing is copying Louis Vuitton from 2001 and 2009. Like…already done. Hackneyed. Keep to classic Chanel.
Agree. It’s nasty. Probably the worst bag I have ever seen was one that I think Beyoncé had, it was a bag made of bits of other bags sewn together. “Frankenbag” as I think of it. It was truly ghastly and I think the price tag was something totally bonkers like 25000 – yep, 25 thousand – dollars. You would have had to pay me – less than 25000- to use the damn thing, am sorry I can’t send a link to console myself that while I don’t have the money I have a bit more taste.
You could get a more interesting tote back pretty much anywhere else, even Zazzle. That’s one homely, pointless tote.
Sea urchin tongues? Sea urchins have tongues? All I know about sea urchins is that they’re spiny and look like they’d hurt me if I wasn’t really careful. I’ll just stick with normal, peasanty pasta, I suppose.
And they smell like death. I’ve eaten sea urchin at sushi restaurants and was BARELY able to get it down. And, I eat anything.
Bobbiesue, sounds like you got some bad urchin. When fresh, they smell less diaperesh and more low tide (lol a minor improvement). I think it’s a love or hate kind of thing with them.
That paragraph from goop was painful to read. She doesn’t seem to understand how to make a proper sentence. Half of those were NOT sentences. Does no one edit?
She comes across as extremely dumb.
Her parents paid her way through Spence and that ensures a diploma. That’s the EXTENT of her education. It cracks me up when people use all these adjectives to describe her as high-brow and erudite.
Totally agree. Terrible grammar (“as someone who… the idea of”) … Do you mean, “as someone who …. I found the idea of ….” ? Literally fifth grade writing. And, a sea urchin tongue is probably about the size of the portions she allows herself! No wonder she wants the recipe.
Dumb trying to sound smart. Even worse!
that’s the oddest way of carrying a tote. at least for me…
what? you don’t care for her goopy way of modeling her new “it” bag.
when i saw the pics i figured she must be shilling it by the way she was holding it.
awkward and uncomfortable, just like her.
Oh yeah she’s definitely keeping her end of the bargain by raising it up like that. Undoubtedly she is obligated to ensure that it gets photographed a bunch of times in order to justify having gotten it for free. Looks ridic, tho. At least she could have put it on her wrist. And tried to look natural about it. LOL #tool
despite it all she will always have the chic factor. it works for her.
True. I hate that tote but the rest of her outfit is natty.
yea her candids or pap photos always look better than any of her red carpet looks or advertising spreads, IMO. She is very pretty and has great style-plus she’s tall and can wear many types of clothes well as a result. She looks much older and harsher on red carpets and in her ‘styled’ pics, I think. Much softer with her au naturel look or when she’s out and about.
As someone who reads cookbooks from cover to cover I am HORRIFIED that this dilettante now wants to promote cookbooks on GOOP. (Yeah, I had a look at her cookbooks, out of curiosity. Boring, truly boring.) *must-resist-checking-goop-for-new-cookbooks” aaaargh!
I wouldn’t buy that bag at all what a rip off. It’s so ugly but then Gwenith only pretends to have taste if she thinks that is nice it says it all really. Another cookbook more meals you need to mortgage your house for.
First club to promote air as an appetizing lunch, and on special days you can spray lemon water in your general direction.
I like her shoes though, comfortable.
lol.
i saw that magazine where she promotes air as food:
http://rageagainstthegoop.tumblr.com/post/16370941194
ha!
I actually like the bag…but for 20 bucks and not one cent more
ah kaiser, she just wants you to feel that way. her handsy handler could have easily pulled her rolling case and if goop didn’t want that chanel bag for free, she could have carried it like a normal person.
but from now on, her hard sell is: she’s just s single mom! she struggles!
feel sorry (and have envy) for her whilst she judgeth thou!
🙄
if she didn’t want the paps in her face she could have used her big bald body guard that she normally uses OR just flown privately into santa monica.
she definitely wanted the paps to get her. and that bag. she has to work hard to stay relevant.
and yeah, she totally dissed book clubs.
YES. Could not agree more. She’s carrying her own stuff dressed like a plebian to look more accessible. Never bought you before, not buying you now.
If somebody else would carry her luggage, people would say she is out of touch and arrogant. Girl can’t win. I like her jacket, BTW and I wouldn’t mind the tote. She looks good with her hair natural, she should do that more often.
The bag looks like a transparent Winner’s shopping bag, accessorized with a string of bungee cords hanging on it. I think I paid a buck for mine. Without cords, of course.
The girls are looking kinda low. Perhaps she should try a bra…but not just any bra. A handwoven-freetrade-ethereal bra-like lingerie piece. That is crafted by a blind monk who has never spoken to women, but understands them. Viscerally.
I read cookbooks cover to cover. But I cook, a lot, and I eat a lot, too. So, I actually like the idea of a cookbook club.
I don’t think it’s a bad idea either, and I actually enjoy reading cookbooks on occasion, too. But she didn’t have to knock “regular” book clubs in the process. Sigh, par for the course for Goop.
Sea urchin tongue looks like a tongue–but is really sea urchin balls. And it has an orange thing sticking out that looks like an eye, but is really, well, its anus. And I learned at moss beach this week that sand dollars are a flat type of sea urchin, and that they are also called sea porcupines. love urchins.
Oops… sea hedgehogs, not porcupines
For a skinny bitch who watches everything that goes in her mouth and judges what everybody else eats , she sure thinks and talks about food a lot.
She craves it, wants it, but doesn’t eat it.. 🙂
Her cookbooks are full of pretty normal healthy recipes. I cook like that at home. Nothing unusual. And no, she is not skinny, just slender.
3800$ for that piece of ****?
The cut of that jacket isn’t doing her boobs any favors
I think it would be fun to join her cook book club and pretend to read some of the recipes and how I tried and adjusted them and then post my comments.
One grape, cubed and garnished with a tic tac????? I’m dying over here. Hilarious!
I can see the book list now…
“1001 Ways to Eat Lettuce”
“How to De-Tox from a De-Tox”
“VapourAde – The New Way to Drink Your Way to Skinny!”
That big clearish looking bag is a $3800 Chanel bag? Really? Looks like something my grocery store uses for reusable bags.
I took this as her admitting that she thinks reading actual books is a bit too peasanty (and a busy woman like her doesn’t have the time or desire to read to expand her horizons, dearie. . . she already knows how things should be)
“…none of the recipes are grossly offensive, in the vein of “one grape, cubed and garnished with a Tic Tac.”
Oh this was just simply hilarious… the grape could never be garnished with a TIC TAC.. .that contains sugar… Oh the horror…
That bag is totally DERELICT CHIC. God I hate it when fashion disappears but its own bum. And the twits who subscribe to it.
I would never buy one of Goop’s cookbooks. She does not cook, and does not know anything about cooking. She has had a personal chef create her macrobiotic meals for her. I doubt she’s ever been inside of a real kitchen. So it is a joke that she writes cookbooks (actually, its likely someone else writes them for her).
If you want a good cookbook, buy Gordon Ramsay’s books. He’s a real chef.
Truth is she is STUNNED natch that Chris is obviously so thrilled to be rid of her and that HE has all the public support. She totally just knew (in her arrogant way) SHE would be praised and he ripped to shreds. She is doing everything and anything with her MEGA PR team to retaliate. She doesn’t care about any amicable separation, or anyone else at all – purely her image. Hallejuh Chris finally came clean after years of pretense and that the kids are happier and relieved too as the phoniness was very clear to them – that is what drove Chris to finally insist on releasing news of split years after happened. Hallejuh, he is free and happy and it is driving her nuts 🙂 Her desperation is reeking of the pathetic – and virtually anyone else would have some sympathy for her but VERY few do – because she is truly horrible. Chris is wonderful, has suffered and deserves every smile on his face, more time and decision making with kids and a woman who is the best and truly makes him happy. I NEVER delight in other’s misery but GOOP is only miserable for her image going down the tubes – that shallow. And book club can’t cover fact she has depth of a thimble and has made everyone she can miserable for decades.