I used to wonder how a superficial narcissist like Gwyneth Paltrow could be the daughter of someone so cool and seemingly reasonably like Blythe Danner. But as I see more of their dynamic and as we hear more from Blythe about her daughter, I’m starting to understand it a little bit more. Blythe was the first person puffing up her daughter. Blythe was the first one telling Gwyneth that everything she did was wonderful, the best, the most amazing and that if anyone ever disagreed, they were just jealous. Jealous of all of Gwyneth’s “accomplishments” (most of which were handed to her on silver platter – how gauche). So, Blythe has a new interview with People Magazine and she literally spends the whole time talking about how Gwyneth is the most amazing person in the world and we’re all just jelly h8rs.
People are overwhelmed Goop: “I just think maybe people are overwhelmed. They can’t understand how people could be so good at so many things. Not only is Gwyneth one of the most brilliant actresses in the world – and I really am hoping she will do more of it when the kids get older – but she is a successful businesswoman and she is a good cook. I think all of that overwhelms some people. I’m really proud of her. She handles herself well.”
She’s happy that Goop & Chris Martin get along: “They are so smart and good as parents. They work hard at it. I am really proud of them. The kids come first. They are terrific.”
On Chris: “He’s a good kid. He’s great. I’m very lucky with all of my in-laws.”
Gwyneth is frisky? “My daughter is also frisky. She likes to say what she wants to say. I think it’s great. That’s one of the things I’m saying about getting older. I feel more liberated. I wasn’t that way when I was younger. I’m glad to see that Gwyneth is strong. She can take it. You have to be thick-skinned to be in our business.”
We can debate about Gwyneth’s acting skills – I don’t think she’s the best but she’s actually not the worst – but can we all agree that only Gwyneth’s mother would describe Goop as “one of the most brilliant actresses in the world”? Even in Gwyneth’s heyday (the ‘90s), she was never considered a particularly brilliant actress. As for her successful business… I would like to see the receipts on Goop.com and all of Gwyneth’s business dealings, but the last time I checked (last year), Goop.com was thousands of dollars in debt. But sure, she can cook.
Also: “frisky”? Gwyneth can be opinionated and strong, but “frisky”?
Photos courtesy of PR Photos and WENN.
No, people are overhelmed by her sh*tty attitude
Bwahaha! Oh thank goodness for Mom’s…..
Oh my God, my mom thinks I’m pretty awesome too but I would barf if she talked about me like this. It almost seems a little delusional.
Now we know why Gwyneth believes she’s such a special snowflake. It’s been affirmed for her since birth. Thanks Blythe!
Eh, she’s not harming anyone, is she? Better that if she was brought up to think the opposite, too many of those around… at least Gwyneth doesn’t need booze & drugs to make herself feel good about herself like so many others, esp. those brought up by famous people.
No harm, just annoyance for the rest of us peasants who are unworthy to breathe the same air. Can’t a person be raised to have a healthy self-confidence without feeling superior to others? That’s what I’m striving for with my kids.
Qwerty, I can’t help but to agree. Maybe it’s because I had a mother who always cut me down as a child. But I really can’t hate on a mother saying loving things about her daughter. And Gwyneth, according to her Hollywood friends, is also a good mother to her children. I don’t get the feeling Blythe overly praised her daughter. If anything, Gwyneth always seemed closer to her father. Even when he was alive, it just seemed like she discussed him more than she discussed her relationship with her mother.
Yep, she was a total daddy’s girl, in fact her cook book is called “My Father’s Daughter”. IIRC she met Chris Martin soon after his death when she was depressed and only wanted to sit at home and cry but her friend dragged her to his concert, he wrote “fix you” about that time.
I’m all for supporting your kids when they’re young and when they’re grown and encouraging their endeavors, however, as parents, we are not suppose to make our kids feel like they are superior. It is possible to raise confident kids without the whole “my kid is a genius” attitude. There’s an entire spectrum in between. I get that Blythe sees this time as Gwyneth’s time to shine and I get that as a mother, but it is not cool to be your kid’s psychophant. They still need reeling in, reality checks, and to be kept grounded. No doubt in my mind, Blythe helped create the ego monster that Gwyneth has become. And for the record, No, I’m not jealous.
Sigh. This comment is insulting to ALL women. Don’t the majority of your everyday moms, businesswomen, teachers, doctors, lawyers, authors, scientists, musicians, artists, (who happen to be women) excel at many, many, many things? Her comment is ridiculous. Most people are overwhelmed by GP because she is a self-absorbed snob who lives in a padded bubble. It’s almost as if she is grasping for excuses as to why people don’t care for her kid all that much (and are therefore overwhelmed). Give me a break.
That’s what I see too. Considering we all know she isn’t the greatest actress or even one of the best, nor has she ever been. So, the real claims to fame in her mom’s eyes are that she’s a good cook and works and takes care of her kids. That’s actually pretty normal, but frankly, she doesn’t really do some of even those things. She has nannies, drivers, people who shop for her groceries for her. All I can see is that hasn’t had a melt down or complained about any of it. I guess in their world, that’s super amazing.
…WHAT? HAHAH??
No, no. That is not the case here at all, Blythe. Oh hahahhah.
Only a mother’s love…
Whenever I come across the life of an incredible woman, I am inspired by her. I am not inspired by her daughter at all. No doubt she has done well in her life but nothing out of the ordinary. There are many other women who have done so much more worthy of the kind of admiration this woman feels that the rest of us have toward her daughter.
Both suffer from delusion.
thank you Blythe but MY daughter is the most awesomest person in the world
lol…..that’s some damn fine Kool-Aid they are sippin
Blythe sounds like a sweetheart! Yes, she’s delusional about who her daughter really is, but most people are, in regards to their kids. She sounds positive and sweet. LIke a good, fun grandma. I don’t have a problem at all with what she said.
Agreed!
I do. My Mother was told she was extra special her entire life and it has created a delusional person who can’t understand or relate to the rest of the world, including her kids.
Telling your kids they worked hard, that you are proud of their accomplishments for specific things, or praising the effort they put into a particular project etc, etc is fine. Telling your kids they shit fairy dust and everyone else is overwhelmed or jealous creates a delusional, entitled snob.
@ Decorative Item – completely agree with all you said. My mother in law is the same way. Her mom always told her how perfect she was. As a result she raised a raging narcissist and we all have to deal with the aftermath. At the age of 81 my mother in law doesn’t have anyone who can stand to be around her. Very sad.
And here we see the result of Blythe’s and subsequent generations raising their “perfect” and “beautiful” children who can do “anything” they put their minds to. It’s gonna get worse before it gets better, if my Facebook “friends” are any indication.
rant over…been on painkillers for a week. sorry/not sorry
Well said. Blythe’s comments probably did nothing for your pain either. 😳
My husband worked with Blythe danner back in the day.
She was always ‘goop like’-pretentious and full of crap.
That’s great! And it confirms what I’ve always suspected and Kaiser said in the very first sentence…
The narcissist doesn’t fall far from the tree.
LOL came here to say the same. I also suspect that Mommy Dearest is giving some backhanded compliments here to her more successful daughter. She is an actress after all (Blythe) that is.
And I know a woman who worked with both of them in summer theater in the Berkshires, and says they both were insufferable snobs and incredibly rude.
None of this surprises me. I think Blythe was born with the proverbial silver spoon in *her* mouth, too — he dad was some kind of bank executive in Philadelphia. She probably grew up feeling entitled, and she’s raised her daughter to feel *doubly* entitled.
You don’t get a personality like Paltrow’s unless you have a similar, enabling personality like Danner’s.
So…none of this surprises me. They’re an entitled, sheltered bunch.
Seems as though we weighed in on this recently, but no, Ms. Danner, we are not amused.
The first helicopter parent has been found……
Sounds like the apple didn’t fall too far from the tree!! Both delusional but that’s okay–if they really think they are sooooo special, let them think it. Some day reality may sink in–then again maybe not.
Imagine the dinners between them …
Blythe: Gwyneth, you’re soooo beautiful and smart and successful. You are the most brilliant person on the face of the earth and everyone is just soooo jealous of you.
Gwyneth: If true … and it is … it’s only because of you, who is the most beautiful mother and the smartest and most successful and brilliant actress a daughter could ever hope for. All other mothers are jealous of you because you are the best mother in the world with the greatest daughter in the world.
Apple: I thought I was the greatest, most beautiful and brilliant granddaughter and daughter in the world?
Blythe and Gwyneth: You ARE!!!
Haha!
LOL!!!
nice pun on the “apple”!
what can we do with Moses??? hmm…
Sounds like Blythe think Gwyneth can part the seas too!
too easy?
What an insufferable pair of pseuds.
The fruit don’t fall far from the tree. Gwyneth X2. I used to think Blythe was so lovely and classic. Now I think without the social media in her day, we didn’t know the real person who raised this over indulged brat.
seconded. Goop is amusing precisely because she is so delusional and clueless, and now we know exactly who fed those delusions to her in the first place.
If there was social media since the 60’s I bet MOST people we sort of idolater and look up to as references of charm, glamour, poise, integrity… whatever… would not be seen with the same eyes. They were really luck in that sense.
If she was more down to earth and less snobby people would take her more seriously and respect, but that’s not the case. Can’t parents smell hypocrisy ever?
These people are really hard to take.
oh shut up already! jeez!
Eh, I can’t hate. Mothers are spectacularly delusional sometimes. 😉
That list of accomplishments is a bit sparse. The third most notable thing is she can cook? For a wealthy “brilliant” actress that’s what you come up with? Hmmm.
She can also work out for hours! And she can not eat stuff! And she’s very good at picking out expensive crap!
She sounds like a mother proud of her daughter! There are certainly worst things a mother could do than brag about her daughter.
My Mom’s proud of me, but she’s not blind to my falterings and hang ups. Heck, she described me once as ‘backward’, but she also knows the range of personal and family dynamics I and she grew up with in our turn. She has a realistic perspective, which will carry one far through a difficult life.
“I’m very lucky with all of my in-laws.”
Who are all of her other in-laws? Is G’s brother married – we don’t hear much about him.
Well, that probably also includes her late husband’s family. In any case, if Blythe managed to have good relationships with her children’s partners and her husband’s family, she’s luckier than most. I married into a family that rejected me because of race. Husband’s parents recently apologized because I pretty much cut off contact with them. Still not sure if they apologized because they really felt sorry or because it was bad for their image that I wasn’t around, given their extended family members aren’t racists and wanted to know why I was always MIA.
Well I actually feel underwhelmed by both of them!!
Used to like her but now not so much.
Zzzzzzz….oh, pardon moi! I think I dozed off…😴
I just don’t get it. We hate Gwyn because we are jealous of her talent and accomplishments, right? Why, then, do we not hate Meryl Streep or Betty White? One could argue that they are both successful, accomplished women, and yet, nary a word of snark or bitterness comes out of the pipe when their names are mentioned. How can it be? The world is SUCH a confusing place sometimes!
Oh wait…maybe it’s because unlike Goop, their physical beauty does not overwhelm the masses? I get it now
Overwhelmed by the BS maybe but….nothing else.
I’m so overwhelmed by all the puffery, I could pass out…
Blythe forgot to mention that Gwyneth is also quite the comedienne. Have you read GOOP? It’s hilarious!
My personal faves are her city guides to LA, with all the usual tourist spots you could find anywhere but Gwynnie acts like she discovered, and Santa Barbara, “a jewel of a little city” as if no one had ever heard of it before, with more of the obvious places.
But classic was her account of getting ready for a big event, how she decided to do “something different” with her hair – by getting a blowout.
And I think she was totally serious.
This is why Gwyneth is the gift that keeps on giving–she will undoubtedly stay this delusional her entire pampered life, which makes her a totally guilt-free target of ridicule. The archetype of the “born on third base and think you hit a triple.”
I think people are only overwhelmed by the ridiculous ease with which everything seemed to fall into her only-modestly-talented daughter’s lap.
Wow…they have taken narcissism to a whole new level:
Goopcissism.
I couldn’t identify what I was feeling while reading this entry. Thank you, Blythe Danner, for telling me it’s jealousy. For a moment there, I thought it might be apathy with a touch of annoyance.
Nothing wrong with a mother being proud of her daughter, but this is elitist crap. They really talk themselves into it, don’t they? “One of the most brilliant actresses in the world”?? Jesus! They are both obviously very far removed from reality. The apple, and the tree- mom just proved it.
Blythe, Blythe, Blythe…dear. Have you been in the apple wine? Your daughter is an okay actress at best (what has she done lately?), her Goop stuff is way overpriced for folks with common sense, and her pretentious attitude in enough to make someone want to punch her in the fae. But if you think she is the greatest person that ever graced this earth, you have at it, but we all know the truth.
Does your bf not understand HIPAA?
No kidding.
Off topic, but want to share. John Bowman, touring with Lewis Black, talks about GP’s advice to have your vagina steamed. No one in the audience believed him. Sadly, from visiting this site, I knew it was true.
ONLY a “good” cook?
For Gwyneth, who’s published 2 cookbooks, based on the homemade, delicious food that all her friends rave about?
Sounds like some very high-grade shade to me, Mom.
Oh, she’s a mom, let her say whatever.
Wow
I think I’ve just been a little bit sick in my mouth.