Gwyneth Paltrow gave an interview to the New York Times this weekend, all to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Goop, her wellness company/lifestyle site, whatever we’re calling it. I can’t believe it’s been 15 years since she started a little newsletter out of boredom when she lived in London. That newsletter has morphed into a company with 170 employees, a podcast, a beauty line, a clothing line, a wellness line, a Netflix contract, a series of summits and brick-and-mortar stores. And on and on. While there’s a focus on questions about whether Gwyneth will ever take Goop public, most of this NYT piece makes her sound like what she really is: a bored, smug elitist. It’s really well-written, actually, it captured her vibe perfectly. Some highlights:
She actually operates her company: “I don’t think that anybody thinks I actually operate my company. I think people think I’m the figurehead. I definitely operate the company, but I’ve never been a person to try to correct public opinion or a misconception. I think it’s a bit of a fruitless exercise.”
Why she started Goop: “I had a very small, nice life in North London with my mother, mummy friends and married to a rock star, which came with a set of complications. If you’re married to someone who’s a touring musician, you’re home by yourself a lot. And so I was in this little bubble with my kids, and I obviously had not wanted to travel and work and be on a set.”
She keeps a scale in her guest bathroom: Her Amagansett home has a great deal of security, including a guard dog, a house manager and a room of security cameras. The interior smells aggressively of cedar and is decorated in neutral tones of cream, with a guest bathroom that has Aesop hand soap and a digital scale.
The mockery of her diet: “About the bone broth? Oh my God. Was I aware? Apple was like, ‘Mom, you’re on TikTok.’” Ms. Paltrow said she eats three meals a day and has a broad range of what she considers healthy foods. “I think a European croissant is a superfood, by the way. Today I had a peanut butter smoothie. And for lunch we had a chopped Italian chicken salad.”
The focus on her fashion at her Utah ski trial: “I was just getting dressed and going to a pretty intense experience every day. And the sartorial outcome was so weird to me. That whole thing was pretty weird. I don’t know that I’ve even processed it. It was something I felt like I survived. Sometimes in my life it takes me a long time to look back and process something and understand something.”
Her support of Rick Caruso for LA mayor: Caruso is a wealthy real estate developer and former Republican who changed his party affiliation before entering the race. “I think I’m open-minded about everybody. I love to hear what people have to say.”
She’s open to supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “It was very interesting to hear his point of view. Since then he’s said some things that I think are tricky, let’s put it that way.” (Later, a representative for Ms. Paltrow called me to express concerns that her political views would be a focus of this article and said that she is more of an “independent thinker.”)
On the complaints about her executive style: “In terms of learning the lessons of how to be a leader, it took me a long time because I was learning on the job. Especially on the people front. If you don’t come up through a corporate culture, it’s really hard to understand how to manage people and how to set good boundaries.”
Whether she’ll take Goop public: “The burden of taking money, I took that responsibility probably too seriously. And it was hard to be the person who was both trying to grow, but also being very conservative with company funding. I was kicking the horse and pulling on the reins at the same time. But I’m so grateful now when I look back that it’s taken its time to evolve into what it is and that we didn’t have this crazy meteoric rise.”
[From The NY Times]
Why would you put a digital scale in your guest bathroom??!?! Please don’t tell me that Gwyneth weighs her guests. Jesus. The only thing I agree with here is that her court fashion shouldn’t have been the headline and it was really strange that people were obsessed with her looks during the trial. The rest of it is typical Gwyneth though, including cozying up to Republicans and GOP operatives like RFK Jr. She also acts like we aren’t aware of her completely bonkers dieting habits. Her go-to these days is just lying her ass off about what she eats.
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How do I put this? At one point in my life I was in treatment with some recovering bulimics. If you look at her in the Pitt/Affleck years, her jaw was quite similar to the women I shared a unit floor with. I think she’s doing some version of food plan/recovery that works for her that’s still pretty disordered. (I am straight up speculating.)
As for the the rest, she reads like a wealthy white woman which she is. She has the luxury of picking and choosing regardless of the political outcome because she will be fine. Not much you can do about wealthy, elite bubbles. All we can hope is that people periodically leave them and realize that not everyone has the rights and privileges that you do and use your vote accordingly.
Nicole,
I feel you in both points.
Her privileged politics are so damaging and we know that “free thinker” is code for Republican. I think she’s an overall menace who never has to account for peddling disordered eating to the masses. Even if you can’t afford her junk, it permeates the environment and you can’t escape it.
Agree.
Is ‘free thinker’ the political version of ‘just asking questions’ and ‘doing my own research’?
Ugh is my only response to her clueless elitist views and total lack of empathy. Must be nice to not care if fascists are in power when you are rich and connected enough to not feel any of the consequences.
She’s also got that Aryan dream girl look about her so she blends right in.
She is half Jewish, though! She shouldn’t be supporting that anti-Semite candidate.
She descends on her father’s side from a long line of Belarusian rabbis!
the number of orthodox/Hasidic Jews that support Trumpists/GQP is astounding – they are now starting to use the same language messianic/evangelicals use and will openly advocate for antisemitism coming from the right with the justification that the target is only “liberal Jews” who aren’t “real Jews” and they (Trumpublican Jews) will be safe
The scale is not the weirdest thing in that story by a longshot. I don’t even own a scale, and I certainly wouldn’t put one in a guest bathroom, but I suspect that 95% of the people who visit Gwyneth Paltrow weigh themselves at least once a day and would consider that a useful amenity.
She’s clearly cozying up to Republicans and is probably an anti-vaxxer. I imagine what caused her to back away from RJK Jr. was the antisemitism and not the hundred other red flags.
And if your examples of how you eat like a normal human being are a smoothie and a salad, I wonder what your non-cheat meals look like.
There’s a digital scale in every one of the guest rooms at my place. Also hair dryers. I don’t have a use for either but my guests do. Same with the small fridge so my dearest friend can keep her insulin cool and private. I know she needs that
I think she works like for like 2 hours a day. She’s so skinny but loves to eat. Used to check her IG a couple of years ago and her chopped salads looked fantastic. I think her thing is exercising like a maniac (Tracey Anderson style) and doing probably two week fasts like four times a year, I’m guessing. Too skinny IMO.
All great observations, @lunchcoma. Seems like she’s pretty far down the conspirituality pipeline at this point.
The ONLY woman in that family I’m down for is her Mama…and that’s ALL I will say about that🤬
I used to like Blythe, but she is an enabler. She was once asked about some of the backlash that goop products elicit, and she claimed that other people are “just jealous.”
Yeah, I suspect her mother is a straight-up enabler. One doesn’t become that snobbish and looks-obsessed on one’s own–especially when one is a Hollywood nepo-brat. 🙁 A shame–I’ve liked some of GP’s performances.
She’s gross. Her and Woody and anyone who tries supports that GOP plant Robert Kennedy. All they care about is their money and not being taxed. That’s. IT.
Well, she did say she lives in a bubble. The people who would be her guests are probably as image obsess as she is. I still want to know what the falling out between her and the Carter’s was
The fallout could be because she used the N word and posted her saying it on Social media and thought because she had black friends it was ok.
What is a “chopped Italian chicken salad”???! Pasta chicken salad?
Lol, not quite sure but a chopped salad is usually roughly chopped lettuces along a variety other elements that are chopped, like cheeses, cured meats, veggies, eggs, tomatoes, etc. Traditionally, the dressing was always heavier – like cream or Mayo based. This probably just means chopped lettuce with chopped chicken and an Italian vinaigrette.
She used to post her chopped salads on IG. You can still have a look at them. She had them for lunch a lot during the pandemic I think. She sets them out like a Cobb salad. They look pretty good. Usually just roast and fresh veggies with a protein like tuna or chicken and some hard boiled eggs.
This must be the hundredth NYT article on gwyneth. I’m just surprised she gets so much ink from them. And I just don’t understand how goop can have 170 employees. Selling clothes and skin care? Seems like a lot and it seems like it is valued by investors for a lot for some reason. I don’t even think the scale in the bathroom is the weirdest part of this article. She probably left it there by accident because she does seem like someone who weighs herself every day. As a middle aged woman in particular she looks so skinny.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/29/gwyneth-paltrows-goop-raises-another-50-million/
She’s definitely taken seriously by venture capital. Also has been invited to “guest lecture” to Harvard MBA students. She has a go-to advertising platform (massive fame) and she loves products. The rest is hiring people who are smarter than her. And she keeps making these foot-in-mouth comments or pushing weird products that go viral. Most people probably wouldn’t buy her stuff but she doesn’t need “most people”. She has a niche and her fans will buy anything she puts on her site. Remember she said she gave like ten of her brand’s most loyal shoppers personalised calls? That’s how much these people individually are spending on her products.
FO Gwynnie.
The podcast Maintenance Phase has a great deep dive into RFK Jr.
All women have a stake in supporting Republicans – GP is not just a ‘wellness’ peddler. Republican = Misogyny/ Anti -choice.
Gwen is telling us who she is. I’m listening.
These kind of women are why we find ourselves fighting for rights time, and again!
So Gwyneth Paltrow is the new Susan Sarandon, eh? Then, if she somehow swings the election to the Republicans who continue making vile changes then she’ll claim she didn’t know it would turn out that way.
Don’t know much about RFK and his controversies but I think RFK Jr recommended a book I really enjoyed and was kind of devastated by, one I’d highly recommended EVERYONE, esp in the US, read: JFK and the Unspeakable. Daniel Ellsberg and a bunch of other people recommended it too (inside book jacket). Also The Devil’s Chessboard by David Talbot.
She’s a tricky bitch herself, isn’t she?
Eheheheh. The best thing one can say about Paltrow lately is that she’s inspired two hilariously-awful movie characters–Toni Collette’s self-righteous-as-f GOOPster in Knives Out, and Samantha Sloyan’s obsessive GOOP Wannabee in The Fall Of The House Of Usher.