Here are some new photos of Gwyneth Paltrow last night at a “book signing for peasants” at an LA Barnes & Noble. Goop wore a minidress by Isabel Marant which… well, the dress doesn’t suck, but the pattern is giving me a headache. It’s too busy, especially with the belt. Her shoes are Michael Kors. The Mail pointed out that Chris Martin was seen taking their kids to Gwyneth’s book signing at The Grove too. How gauche!
I kept waiting to write this story because I was hoping to include this week’s Goop-letter here, but I’m tired of waiting for it. She hasn’t released it yet, probably because she’s so exhausted from last night’s book signing. Interacting with peasants takes so much out of her.
In my previous Goop story today, I gave you guys the link to the Amazon customer reviews and the growing flame-war, which is absolutely hilarious. The “official” reviews from book critics and cook-book experts have started coming in too, and there seems to be a growing flame war amongst professionals too. I’ll give you some good links:
The Atlantic Wire: “It’s All Good seems to take laughable Hollywood neuroticism about eating to the next level.”
HuffPo: “We’re going to try really, really hard to keep this about the food, as this is a space devoted to that and we are, in fact, talking about a cookbook (even though it is very easy to occasionally think that you are paging through a J Crew catalogue). We knew things were going to get rough when we counted roughly 35 photos of Gwyneth, as compared to the roughly 86 photos of food in the book. For those keeping track, that’s somewhere around one quarter of the photos in this cookbook.”
Macleans: “But foodie-ism and the possibility of encouraging eating-disordered behaviour aside, Science-ish was immediately stung by the panorama of pseudoscience premises on which the cookbook rests.”
The NY Post: “The book reads like the manifesto to some sort of creepy healthy-girl sorority with members who use beet juice rather than permanent marker to circle the “problem areas” on each other’s bodies.”
And in case you wanted to read the cornucopia of Goop’s best lines from her cookbook, go here to Eater.com. It’s pretty amazing. I love all of the references to how many homes Gwyneth has.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.
she’s pretty,great legs and about her book or what i think,i don’t care!
Oh you are so full of Goop!
Just kidding but that’s my new saying instead of telling people they are full of s_it; I say full of Goop.
She does have nice legs but it stop’s there. I don’t find her attractive and I want to do something to her hair. Her ends always looks frizzy or split.
@ V4Real, you have been promising to slap her for all of us! Go to one of her pretentious book signings and do it I beg of you.
@hoya keep an eye out on when she will be in NY and I will keep that promise.
Damn this is going to be my first criminal charge and I’m so psyched about it. I can’t wait to lay paws on her. LOL
She looks pretty and young here.
I love what the New York Post said and I too hate her “sorority”.
I am sure her very good dear wonderful friend Mario Balotelli is telling her that haters gonna hate and that her food is divine. Oh, and Fishmonger just sent her some of his finest with a bottle of her favorite white.
Insufferable. That’s all I can think of when I look at her.
That is THE word when I think of her. Tiresome as well.
the most frightening this is that she’s actually managed to be more insufferable than Madonna and that is no small fete!
I just…I just want to do *something* to her hair. *Anything*. Dye it (with Kool-aid so it doesn’t murder some endangered species in Paltrow-nia land and can wash out), updo, cut it, *something*. It’s killing me.
I flipped through the cook book in BN and went, “AHAHHA I can’t wait until celebitchy gets a hold of this one.”
Full on GOOP assault today!!!!!!
Hahahaah
Her skin is not that good.
No it’s not. Whoever told her she has good skin is lying.
I’m glad she’s being called out for her reliance of pseudoscience. She acts as if she’s merely passing on the learned opinions of “nearly every medical professional” she’s spoken to when really the situation is: She pays quacks A LOT of money to give a phony, b.s. ‘scientific’ justification for her eating disorder.
Yes!!! That’s a very important angle that many people miss when reviewing the crap she (and her ilk) put out there. What’s next for Goop? Homeopathy? Haha
I LOVE that dress. Totally something I would wear.
Edit: Took a closer look at the cover, and it looks like she actually gave the real author of her book credit this time!
Double Edit: Dear Gwyneth, my mom raises her own chickens to butcher each summer, so that makes me better than you, because it was only your great-grandfather who was the chicken farmer. Take that!
GOOP reminds me of that episode frm “SATC” ,WHEN Mr Big takes Carrie to the upper east side party with that squirrell purse andd there is that hostess who insists on only white drinks and brown food ,and carrie is like her neurotic behaviour is just a cover up for her absence of her own personality ,so true for goop
Love that show!!
Anyway her food obsession is probably a way of distracting herself from things she can’t control, like a bad marriage. A lot of control freaks are like that
YEAH @barhey ,totally love SATC,i am sure i would still watch it even after 10 years
*chastising voice*
KAI-SERRRRR…Boring Blondies, Goopy next to BFF Mrs. Carter…hmmm?????
i see what you did there, gurl! tee-hee
😆
omg, as if you are the only person to eat healthy, ever.
niiice legs
that’s all I got
I don’t know, my husband, who’s is a top culinary school educated chef perused the cookbook last night and thought the recipes and tips looked pretty good.
I don’t feel one way or another about GP but I bought her first cookbook (after checking it out from the library first and trying some recipes – I was skeptical) and everything I’ve tried is quite good. I have to eat gluten free and dairy free due to severe allergies (legitimate, not for vanity like I suspect GP’s are) and so I bought this new cookbook because I’m tired of eating the same thing over and over. Looks decent…we’ll see. I do like that she gave the chef/co-author a lot more credit this time.
I haven’t actually tried her books, but here are a couple of really good ones for a gf and dairy free diet. I got them “back in the day” when they were only few gf books on the market and i use both all the time. 🙂
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1592334725/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1365091678&sr=8-1&pi=SL75
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1843100673/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1365092133&sr=8-1&pi=SL75
The quotes on Eater.com are hilarious, as are the comments on them. Man, Goop just proves herself more and more delusional every day. I wonder if there’s a ceiling to her crazy.
WTF is wrong with bell peppers?
She looks really cute here IMO.
Yeah, I’m definitely not a fan of the Goop but she does look good here. Very natural. It looks like she’s laid off the Botox and I think it actually makes her look younger.
I just had a pretty healthy lunch, but this and the Eater article make me want to go get McDonalds out of spite.
You can see clearly in these photos that her skin is nothing to fawn over…
More like, she “deigns” to sign books – love that word, Kaiser! She reminds a lot of my mom (in looks only), but I love my mom.
I love the reviews of her book there all pretty much spot on. A cookbook for people with eating disorders.
I can’t imagine that the book is more fun than the reviews. I liked this from KrissKross Kriss on Amazon (she also says the book should more accurately be titled It’s All Ridiculous):
“There are very specific differences between being allergic to gluten, intolerant to it, and sensitive to it. Some people just digest better without it. I digest a cucumber a lot easier than I do broccoli, but that doesn’t mean I’m intolerant to broccoli! … No one knows why some people are allergic or intolerant to some things and not others. My son is severely allergic to all tree nuts, but Gwyneth eats them and so do millions of other people because they’re not. Eating a walnut could potentially kill my kid, but does that mean I write books telling the public that nuts are bad for you? Of course not. Because common sense is fun.”
I’m pretty sure her plan is to kill off all the peasants, so I’ll pass on trying her recipes lol.
I like her but when she smiles that wide with little makeup on, she looks A LOT like Alfred E. Newman to me.