Back in 2013, Gwyneth Paltrow was promoting her second cookbook, the theme of which was “fun food you can make if you’re experimenting with an elimination diet.” That cookbook was widely and soundly criticized for promoting “some sort of creepy healthy-girl sorority” and “Hollywood neuroticism about eating.” At one point, Gwyneth literally suggested eliminating bread, pasta, dairy, eggs, meat and more from her children’s diets. It was ridiculous, and the whole thing became next-level stupid when Gwyneth tried to deny that was what she was doing. She’s spent the last few years trying to convince people that she’s not in fact promoting eating disorders and crazy, ceaseless dieting. Has it worked? Who knows. But she’s promoting her latest cookbook and now she’s talking about how her kids eat everything and how she loves French fries. GOOP PLEASE.
She swears she doesn’t diet: “I don’t believe you should rule out any kind of food. I believe in enjoying life. I’m not a good dieter and since I’ve had kids, I have loosened up a lot. My favorite ‘bad food’? French fries. I would eat them at every meal if I could.”
She doesn’t withhold food from her kids: “You can’t tell them, ‘No Coke, no cake.’ It is not realistic. Their favorite foods are pasta and french fries. It’s about trying to augment that with something healthy.”
She’s always changing her story: “[There’s] a lot of misinformation about what I actually eat.”
Apple is a cook too: “Apple is always experimenting. A lot of her recipes revolve around pizza.”
Gwyneth still cooks for Chris Martin: “Of course I cook for him. Chris is always welcome at my house and I at his. We go on holidays together – it’s all very relaxed.”
“Misinformation”… that comes from her own interviews. So, what’s the truth? Does Gwyneth just make it up as she goes along? Does she tell some interviewers that she’s on a strict elimination diet? Does she tell other interviewers that she eats everything? Are all of these stories just Gwyneth’s eating phases? Or was she just shilling her cookbook back in 2013 and now she’s shilling another cookbook and so of course her soundbytes are going to be different? I honestly believe that she doesn’t understand that she’s lying so much. She’s so absorbed in her little food-withholding-obsessed world and she doesn’t get that she really has no education/background to discuss diets and food and health.
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I think she found out that older children are apt to rebel against an overly strict diet, especially when they see all the goodies their friends get to eat. She couldn’t control her kids’ diet anymore, is what happened.
That pink thing is an atrocity!
I second that.
I think you’re right — about the kids, your outlook/mindset about a lot of things can change a lot as your kids grow and mature — and about the jumpsuit.
She looks like a Sea Monkey. Remember those?
All of the misinformation comes from her! Nobody has time to make up stories about what she eats, because she’s constantly talking about it .
Good, that we didn’t listen to her or her stupid site, because she was the one who told us what to not eat years ago. What an idiot.
How is she still relevant? I don’t care the least about what she eats or not and only hope for her children that they are spared her weird health kick and able to develop a normal attitude towards food.
First of all, I hate those body suits (or whatever they are called) she’s prone to wear. They are always too tight in the crotch area. Also, I know everyone on here leerrves to talk about how stupid diets are and eliminating things, but as someone who has an autoimmune disease, I’ve experimented with elimination diets as recommended by my forward-thinking doctor. I find that my symptoms are completely eliminated when I cut gluten completely out of my diet. More people should try it and may find allergies and annoying ailments just disappear.
I think it’s fine if you’re doing under the direction of your doctor.
Another story: My cousin was a 44 year old man with IBS. He cut gluten and dairy. It worked – Until the symptoms came back. He cut more stuff, to help his IBS. Finally,he went to the doctor for help on his diet, and he was diagnosed with anorexia. The doctor told him he was eating way too little (under the advice of goopy and pseudo-science type people). He got into an outpatient program, where he ate all the food groups, and his symptoms all got better. Sometimes cutting out foods work, and sometimes it does spiral into on obsession that, if you’re lucky, a doctor will catch.
The difference, ladysussex, is that you were doing so at the advice of a DOCTOR. Which she is not. In fact she sounds downright stupid whenever I read her quotes.
And, as a fellow autoimmune disease sufferer, I can tell you that elimination diets are not a magic bullet. I have tried every western / conventional and alternative therapy proposed to me, including a diet that eliminated red meat, gluten, sugar and every other form of sweetener including honey and maple syrup, a large number of fruits and vegetables and dairy. It did nothing for me, other than creating a lot of extra work as I had to cook separate meals for my family. I gave it up after six months.
Bottom line – if your doctor – or a trained nutritional practitioner – works with you on a specific elimination diet aimed at fixing individual issues, I agree it may help. Getting advice about health or nutrition from this peroxided blonde is a different story.
The problem is not the elimination diet, it’ s the attitude GOOP shows. You use it because of a medical problem, I’ m pretty sure you don’ t brag with everyone else about how much more civilized you are for not eating gluten (in fact I think you probably consider it annoying), and I am also pretty sure that you don’ t treat the ones who disagree like they are disgusting, uncouth morons. Also, you are not so much up your own ass that you think that just because you are rich and spoiled, then everyone has the same amount of time and money to own the same stuff you own (talking about GOOP here, obviously).
JWQ you are right. I do find it incredibly annoying LOL! I wish it weren’t the case. But what is really hurtful is when I’m in social situations and someone always notices I’m not eating something. If I say “I can’t eat gluten” you should hear the scoffing and unsolicited “advice” I get. People roll their eyes and tell me I shouldn’t believe fads or whatnot. I’ve even eaten very small amounts just to avoid the criticism, and then wake up with skin rash from even small amounts of gluten. If I’ve really given in to social pressure and eaten something like pizza or bread, I’ll have rash and joint swelling. So yeah, I don’t just do it for “fun” or preach to other people about it. I’d give anything to just be able to eat like everyone else. I’ve even lied to people and said I had celiac disease (I do not, I have lupus) just because I don’t want to hear all the negativity.
That’ s exactly it: lots of people go for these diets because it’ s the last trend, and then decide that they have the moral duty to “convert” everyone else, more often than not by giving unwanted tips and, sometimes, straight out lying (steaming you vagina, anyone?). People who do it for serious reasons treat it like a condition, not like it’ s something that makes the special. I have the same problem with milk and dairy: I try not to eat or drink anything done with cow milk, but it’ s really difficult, and most of the time I feel like I’ m being an inconvenience. The few times I give in, I end up with terrible pain in my abdomen. It’ s brief, but it’ s still bad.
@ladysussex, my take on it is this: Anyone who wears clothing like that out in public and smirks as GOOP does has demonstrated a lack of basic common sense, and I can safely ignore any advice or recommendations that are offered. That monstrosity is the visual equivalent of nails on a chalkboard for me.
And I feel you regarding your diet. Like you, I don’t have celiac, but I do have other conditions that are vastly improved when I avoid gluten and dairy (except for butter, which makes it even more fun to try to explain to people). It’s hard to stick to what I should eat for my health at times… but I’ve decided that my health is more important to me than a colleague’s hurt feelings if I don’t sample her cheese plate. Why do other people care so d&#n much about what I do and don’t put in my own mouth??
Is she taking media training from Sarah Palin? Say stupid shit, then when called on it, blame it on the media as if you didn’t give direct quotes.
A whole new level of self denial and delusion from Goop.
Every time Goop makes comments like this I picture her waiting until she is alone and locking the bedroom door. Pulling out a a few Big Macs from her Hermes purse. Opening up her closet and taking out her stash of Oreos, Twinkies, Doritos and lighting up a non organic cigarette . All washed down with a bottle of Orange Crush.
LOL! NewWester you forgot the spray cheese she’d shoot directly into her mouth.
Why anyone would take diet advise from osteoporosis candidate, hair/skin-fried Gwyneth Paltrow, is beyond me. She has no education thus no credibility and this whole diet guru thing is just a hobby/attention seeking device since her acting career is in the toilet. I feel sorry for her kids.
Hey, she’s gotta keep those kids fed on activated almond paste and vital organic beans harvested by autumn moonlight. Besides, how else is she going to subsidize the Hollywood nepotism train if she’s not shilling? It’s hard out there for a Hollywood daughter over 40!
This woman is weird. Weird McWeird of the clan McWeird.
Weirdy McWeirdFace….
I almost said that!
Honestly I don’t care if she eats white flour or not. What bugs me about her is her need to push pseudo-science like cleanses or “clean eating” or gurus like Tracy Anderson who once pushed baby food diets and supplements instead of eating. She’s pseudoscience on the level of the Food Babe woman and Dr. Mercola, and susceptible people are the ones who suffer from it.
Her food stamp challenge basket was laughable – she couldn’t imagine spending $ on milk?? bread? She has no idea what it’s like to go hungry. She makes us poors feel bad for eating what we can afford, like bread and canned tuna. That’s why you suck GOOP.
Her pseudo science is exactly why she should not be speaking on any issues concerning physiology, nourishment and nutrition. From her weird diets to GMOs (regardless of anyone’s position on those) – pls leave it to the scientific experts.
Question: Could someone feasibly bring a lawsuit against her if they follow what she says and it fails them, or harms them in some way?
The problem with Gwenyth is that she talks too much and in too much detail. An elimination diet is for suspected allergies or real health concerns. Not just for the fun and vanity of it, and is usually at the suggestion of a doctor.
She lives in an insular world where people are obsessed with youthfulness and weight and actively look for the latest diet fix. Not everyone has the need to go as far as she does because they aren’t public figures, but she doesn’t understand this. I don’t think she wants to understand it anyway.
But even here she can’t help herself. Potatoes have lately become recognized for health benefits and fries are somewhat trendy now. I’m sure she eats them drizzled with truffle oil and Himalayan sea salt.
I’m sure the pizzas are gluten free crusts with no cheese or dairy free.
See she’s not lying, but she leaves out details with this new omission.
While the skeptic in me loves to ridicule the idea of elimination diets, I found that I’ve developed a couple of weird food intolerances well into adulthood. Capsicum (peppers) and onion give me horrendous indigestion and acid reflux, while mushrooms (which I’ve eaten in great quantities all my life) have me rushing to the bathroom 15 minutes after eating.
What the hell? How can something you’re eaten for 30+ plus suddenly affect you like this?
So, yeah, while I detest food fads and particularly hate the idea of obsessive dietary restrictions for kids (a great way to encourage eating disorders), the way the body processes and adapts to different foods is a weird and mysterious thing…
You can develop food allergies as you age. I ate cranberries and drank cranberry juice throughout childhood with no trouble. When I was 18, I started developing a mild, temporary rash from them. I eliminated them from my diet, but on occasion I would accidentally ingest some (usually when they were added to a food or drink to enhance the color). As I aged and with every additional ingestion, the mild rash turned into horrible hives and fevers that took longer to resolve. When I was 35, I mysteriously went into anaphylaxis even though I was positive I had not eaten any cranberries. I had to take steroids and suffered in agony for several days while the allergen passed through my gut. (Imagine being stabbed thousands of times in the abdomen for three days. It sucked that badly!) A few days after that I went into anaphylaxis AGAIN, and this time it got very scary very quickly. As the ER doctors were questioning me again about what I had eaten, it clicked: the only new thing I had eaten more than once during that time had been Chick-Fil-A barbecue sauce. A call to their HQs revealed that the “natural fruit flavor” they used in their sauce was in fact cranberries. I had to get allergy testing, and to this day I am the only patient my allergist has ever had who is allergic to cranberries. Now I have to be hyper vigilant about ingredients because as companies move away from using chemical dyes, they use cranberries more frequently for red or pink hues. So be careful out there with foods that make you sick!
That pink outfit makes her body look like that of an 80 year old yoga instructor. No fat and no muscle. Weird.
My 82 year old yoga instructor has an amazing body, actually.
So, if she and Chris Martin are so relaxed and are having so much fun together, why did they divorce?
She’s one interview away from suggesting she has sex with him when the girlfriend is not available – because that’s how relaxed they are!
Wasn’t she vegetarian at one time? Wasn’t she hardcore macrobiotic at one time? She’s been bouncing from one out-of-the-mainstream diet to another as long as she’s been around. I think she believes she’s cool but really looks a fool as she Marie Antoinettes her way through life.
You shouldn’t cut out any kind of food but you should cut out cigarettes, Gwyneth.
Is that pink thing a funky looking pyjama?
It’s my favorite outfit in the world because I love pink, I love lambs, even right after they are sheared and I love the fact that she had this smug look on her face while wearing that crazy hideous outfit that looks like she has a penis, albeit a small one. I know I’m going to hell, but it makes my day every time I see it! 🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏
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It makes mine too! It’s like that awful Blohan pic in the pink fur with maximum duck lips – hideous and hilarious.
Yes, Pandy, that one never gets old either.
Remember she would rather be a Crackhead than eat cheese from a can, or something like that. That outfit gives her very pronounced camel toe. Doctor, my eyes!
I thought this exactly. Gwyneth is a walking sideeye eyeroll.
She is a constant walking contradiction, changing her mind to suit what she’s trying to sell. Going from one fad to the next. I think she is deep into eating disorder thinking but can’t admit it. I also think she can be dangerous because some of her “health” kicks are wildly misinformed pseudoscience.
A large part of my diet consists of vegetarians. Cows, sheep…….
That is an amazing line and I am going to use it forever.
Let’s host an imaginary party for Goop. I will bring bacon-wrapped doughnuts filled with canned cheese and dipped in ketchup.
Her publicist gets back to her that people are sick of hearing about her weird diets so change it up & say that you do eat junk food to relate to the peasants & see if they like you any better?
That GOOP claw is hypnotic. In a really bad way. Please never show it again. It’s like that saying”if you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you”. I feel like the Goop claw would follow you around the room.
I think there’s no health trend she won’t embrace, but it’s always funny the way people talk about her macrobiotic diet. She said that in, like, 2000. And people still hold her to that, like 15 years later she’s eating the exact same thing. And she’s said a million times since then that she’s into food, she likes to eat, that’s why she works out, blahblahblah–but no. One time in the late 90s/early 00s she was on a macrobiotic diet and the Internet never forgets! People go on elimination diets for all sorts of reasons. My mom was on a strict one in her 20s as prescribed by her doctor. Like that’s a permanent state of being? like nobody can go on an elimination diet temporarily? I dunno, GP is an odd bird but people are equally weird about her. I believe that she eats whatever she wants, and goes on weird juice fasts and whatever else here and there–she’s as strange as a lot of other people are about food.
Her father died of cancer. It affected her deeply and you think about cancer in a way you hadn’t before at her age. So she went on a health kick after his death for her own longevity. We all go on kicks at different parts of our life.
Over the years at work we’ve all jumped on some diet fad. Suzanne Somer’s diet was huge in my office, and lots of the girls would order food for lunch to match that.
I have no doubt she was affected by her father’s death. I do find it odd that she has chosen to do weird diets rather than lose the cigarettes.
So she’d be fine coming with me to the county fair this Labor Day weekend and eating deep-fried Oreos and funnel cakes?
That entire first paragraph has got me enraged:
She doesn’t rule out food, but fries are her favourite ‘bad food’. She could eat them at every meal (but by implication doesn’t).
Therefore she has labeled a food as bad and deliberately rules it out. Amiright?
You are exactly right, Kilo Tango. I just can’t with her.
I understood her. She doesn’t rule out as she can never ever eat it, so occasionally does indulge in foods that are bad for you. French Fries are bad for you. She says if I could I would eat them every day. Well, of course she won’t, because they are terrible for you, but she does indulge once in a while instead of banning them from her diet completely.
I get it. I eat things that many people won’t touch in their “healthy” lifestyle diet, but when I crave them, I indulge occasionally, and feel no guilt.
My brother turned 50 and became obsessive about his diet for health reasons and really worried about everything that could cause cancer, etc. He used to eat bread that tasted lie cardboard to me for sandwiches. LOL A few years into it one day I went over and he’s eating barbecue and french fries, and I go, “What happened?” He laughed and said after he had a surfing accident and hurt his shoulder, he got depressed and he fell off the wagon of health and decided he can’t fight aging. He’s still overall a healthy eater, but incorporated back things he enjoys and feels no guilt.
I can’t stand her and I have no idea why she gets any press.
But, fries are bad foods. In fact most commecially prepared fries are highly processed potato leavings, fried in highly processed bad fats. If kids could abstain from Coke and cheap pasta products that would great in my books.
Then more fat, Gwyneth! MORE FAT!
This woman is like every bad rich white woman stereotype that exists (sorry to involve race, but there is a stereotype about rich white women behaving in the exact ways that Gwyneth does).
I remember that there were a lot of headlines claiming she looked incredible in that atrocious pink jumpsuit, but looking at the pictures of her here wearing it, that was a terrible and unflattering look!