We heard that Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Falchuk were engaged last year, but now it’s official. It’s Goop-Magazine-Cover Official. I kind of love this image, because their dynamic is so clear: she’s the star. He’s behind her, in every way. He’s her support system. I can understand why she wants that – her last marriage was not like that at all. Gwyneth and Brad made a joint statement confirming their engagement, saying:
“We feel incredibly lucky to have come together at this juncture in our lives, when our collective successes and failures can serve as building blocks for a healthy and happy relationship,” Paltrow and Falchuk said in a joint statement Monday. The couple announced their engagement in Goop’s Sex and Love issue, out Tuesday.
Why did Paltrow decide to get remarried? “Personally, at midlife, I have tried to accept how complex romantic love can be,” she said. “I have decided to give it a go again, not only because I believe I have found the man I was meant to be with, but because I have accepted the soul-stretching, pattern-breaking opportunities that (terrifyingly) are made possible by intimacy.”
When we talked about their engagement the first time, I wrote that “it was pretty clear that they had an affair which ended up destroying both of their marriages.” Some of you took issue with that, because many people believe that Chris Martin was cheating on Gwyneth long before she met Brad Falchuk, or that Chris and Goop had an open marriage that whole time. I tend to believe that Chris and Gwyneth did have an open marriage and they both screwed around, and Gwyneth was just more discreet about her affairs than Chris. But how do you go from “discreet affair with a married man” to “Brad and Gwyneth both divorce their spouses and transition their affair into a full-fledged relationship and engagement”? I wrote what I meant – Brad and Gwyneth’s affair destroyed both of their marriages. And since Gwyneth has a whitewashed image as Ms. Holistic V-Steam Elite Princess, she barely got ANY sh-t for any of it. In fact, now that she and Brad and officially engaged, the whitewashing is getting even more hardcore. From E! News: “Paltrow met Falchuk on the set of Glee, shortly after her “conscious uncoupling” from Coldplay’s Chris Martin in 2014.” No. They met at least a year before Gwyneth consciously uncoupled from Chris, if not longer.
But hey, Chris is fine with it.
Cover courtesy of Goop.
The Goop – Martin relationship was on its way out far before Falchuk ever entered the picture, and both parties had issue with fidelity there (remember not only Chris getting publicly caught with Kate Bosworth, but also Goop jetting off to that fancy guy in Florida?).
But they definitely broke up Falchuk’s marriage. I get that relationships can be complicated and we don’t know what was going on with Brad F and his wife, but still … maybe don’t put your engagement on the cover of a magazine? It’s not the most sensitive thing you can do.
Also, 3rd time’s a charm, Gwyneth?
I tend to agree with the idea that her marriage was done long before she met “second Brad”. Chris was very indiscreet with his other relationships and I remember thinking it was strange that he rarely showed up to support her with anything for her career. Successful open marriages seem like a bitch to maintain longterm.
I also believe that the one marriage that was really destroyed by their actions was Falchuk’s. I hope his ex-wife and he have a good relationship now and that seeing all of these happy images in print does not distress her.
Also, just a quick note, @Bridget, I think this is G’s second marriage not her third.
3rd engagement. She’s not married yet :).
Gwyneth and Grifter Barbie are so much alike. So madly deeply truly in love with themselves.
Who is grifter Barbie????
I think that’s Ivanka, a.k.a. Nagini.
Congrats goop. Love her.
What an annoying, pretentious statement.
This. It reads like a novel with Fabio on the cover. Not a surprise that nothing is ever simple with Goop since she’s now talking about “raw water”.
Have some respect, guys. They’re the first people on the entire planet to fall in love, like, ever.
Couples can be so cringe.
No idea about the other side but I’m pretty sure Chris and Goop were sleeping around on each other way before Brad. Do I think they wrecked two marriages? Maybe just Brad’s and I will forever side eye both of them. That and Goop has some kind of hold over chris that is honestly weird…like she can’t let him move on. Idk i always found them odd
Anyways congrats i guess
I believe the hold she has over him is “children”.
Nah its more than that. There’s good coparenting and then their Goop’s level of interest in Chris’ personal life. Weird lack of boundaries
I feel awful for Falchuk’s ex even if she’s well rid of him. That Modern Family Instagram is like a kidney-punch. Monsters.
As for the besotted gruesome twosome, as long as he worships her they’ll be A-Ok. Yay!
I was expecting something of the conscious uncoupling? caliber. The most interesting element for me is that spread in the IG photo. How random. Does it mean something?
YESS! I was wondering if anyone else would notice! Am I crazy or does it say “Mr Poo”? Is it some extra-clean-vegan-macro-sugarfree-organic poo? Or is it some extra-sugary-off-brand Nutella that Chris passive aggressively brought to brunch?
I’m not sure which. But I am sure that Chris is off having a bacon double-cheeseburger and a pint to celebrate his ex-wife’s remarriage.
IMO their marriage was never the same after Chris was linked to Kate Bosworth. They always seemed really off after that, and in the last couple of years of their marriage they didn’t seem like a couple at all.
I think Chris cheated first, which led to them trying to have an open marriage, which led to almost completely separate lives. I don’t think Falchuk was really a factor in breaking up their relationship, because I’m not sure they had much of one by the time he came along.
Chris may be over it, but I wonder what the ex wife thinks?
Is her elbow and arm flat and pointy like thst naturally or is the top of the image cut off? White photo backround on white magazine cover… it’s hard to tell.
Get ready for the Goop wave of wedding and newlywed shilling!
The ring is fug.
Pure speculation but Chris may have wisely realized that she’d only move on gracefully once she had a jump-off so may have waited for that to happen (after likely checking out a few years earlier).
This is an excellent point.
Chris martin is the definition of emotionally unavailable. Sympathy for goop here.
I can see why that would be appealing..
Chris looks so relieved. I don’t blame him.
So smarmy.
Goop seems like she’d smell of astringent
She is her own ultimate vanity project
This cover is so weird on so many levels….but the first to pop out was that Gwennie would never even walk a red carpet with Chris, because she claimed it was “too invasive” to their relationship. LOL. This magazine cover is gonna be real awkward one day…
I think the privacy stuff was more Chris than Goop.
Yeah, I think Chris had some high-minded ideas about his “artist” status, and thought that walking red carpets and being photographed was stooping to the base level of a desperate celebrity. And I believe that Gwyneth thought she agreed with him… until she woke up one day and realized she missed all of that. They may have had an open relationship, they may have cheated on one another, but I think what really drove them apart was that they have fundamentally different ideas about life. She wants and needs constant attention and adulation, he doesn’t.
I’m not a Chris Martin fan, but I think Gwyneth would be HELL to live with — smug and conceited, but desperate and full of self doubt at the same time. Someone who spends an inordinate amount of time worrying about what she eats and how much exercise she’s getting. She would exhaust me.
I can’t imagine sitting at the same table with my ex-hubby + the man I left him for without a bottle of Xanax. Or vodka. Or whatever.
So I can’t decide if I really admire Goop for this crazyness, or I want to slap her.
Her and Chris are annoying but I’ll give always them both props for acting like adults about their divorce (even with that absurd “conscious uncoupling” thing) and being a good example of what a blended family should act like.
I love how she is purposely hiding the ring finger. She wants us to beg to see it. Thirsty.
Yawn. I think Goop’s moment is ovah.
Agree. It just feels incorrect to embrace anything so shallow and out of touch. Sometimes that can be fun, but with all the issues today in society, getting into Goop feels like willful placement of one’s head into the sand.
I think she fell for Chris shortly after her father died and was vulnerable. Chris having had admittedly limited experience with women was wow’d by hollywood gwennie… He didn’t know what he had gotten himself into until it was too late, which is when he realized they are two vastly different people. I think that sums up her relationship with Chris. I think he started to stray because he could now and he was bored…she was probably bored too.