I’ve noticed something very interesting about Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop-letters over the past few weeks – she’s no longer personalizing the letters to her readers with a preview of what she’s Gooping about this week. She’s no longer signing off “love, gp” and she’s no longer taking that conversational tone that she used to start with. You know when she stopped doing that? It was right around the time that she used her Goop-letter to justify/explain her completely ridiculous interview about peasant working mothers and how they have an easier life than her, because she has to go to Wisconsin for a few weeks every year or something. *shudder* Gwyneth was heavily criticized, and her Goop-letter just made her sound even more tone-deaf.
So, she’s not even pretending to be civil to all of us fat peasants anymore. She’s just throwing out her elite advice and rolling her eyes. “Maybe 1% of them will understand this. That’s my core audience!” But this week, she did try a little bit harder to get down to “our level.” This week’s Goop-letter includes a guide to LA Food Trucks. Gwyneth even includes a photo of herself scarfing down a… a… hamburger!!! You can read this week’s Goop-letter here.
It looks like Gwyneth is trying to send a message to the newly carnivorous Chris Martin – “If you come back to me, I will allow you to have one peasant hot dog (an artisanal, kosher dog with avocado, arugula and basil aioli) a month. Deal or no deal?”
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet and Instagram.
Fail!
Last week she visited Costco! I can’t believe that didn’t get more pick -up from the media. Especially since she found Brangelina’s Rose Mirval and recommended it. Lol my friend and I were wondering whether that was undercover shade or not. Lol
Costco??!! How many bodyguards did she have to escort her through the hordes of “unwashed heathens”??
Total fail. And I’m totally tired of and bored with her. Not sure why I clicked on this.
What an idiot. I live in NC and Mexican food trucks have been around for 20 yrs. Guess that’s part of the CULTURE. She couldn’t be more clueless or up her own ass if she tried.
Her cook book contains meat recipes she wasn’t ever a committed vegetarian that is some kind of urban myth
He was known as a vegetarian before they got together and has been so for much longer than her.I think she had about 5 min where she was a vegetarian in between the many other diet fads she tried.
Yeah, I didn’t think she was some long-term vegetarian from interviews I’ve read of her back when she was putting out the other cookbook, not this last one.
I saw her in an interview one time a couple of years ago with Mario Battalia and all she talked about was how much she ate, burgers, fries etc.,so I think this vegetarian thing is fairly recent.
Yup, was that Spain on the Road Again? I remenber she even ate the typical Ham (jamón serrano) there.
I think she was doing macrobiotic diet for quite some time after her dad passed away. Isn’t that something like raw vegan?
It’s not raw, as far as I know, it’s about the ying and yan balance of the foods, some foods are ying, some foods are yan and they are combined in such a way that they complement each other
Not at all. In macrobiotic diet the staple is cooked grains (rice, millet, barley, buckwheat etc).
no macrobiotic isn’t raw vegan but I swear she did claim to be vegan for a period after her macrobiotic phase
I think it was the death of her father that precipitated the change in her diet. His death scared her because at that point, she wasn’t living a very healthy lifestyle. She was a smoker in her 20s and probably eating whatever. Her grandfather and father both died of cancer and were avid smokers. So I think that propelled her extreme lifestyle change. But it didn’t last forever. She was chowing down on meat during that Spain…on the Road Again series with Mario Batali, Mark Bittman and Claudia Bessols, and her cookbooks and goop site feature all kinds of meat dishes.
I think the diet she has embraced to this day, after she went through her macrobiotic phase, is just eating whole, natural and unprocessed foods. Hence all her crazy comments like slamming Micky Ds and saying she’d rather smoke crack that eat cheese from a can or let her kids have Cup-of-Soup.
Not only are food trucks not a new cool thing in LA, many are considered cool and are frequented by the “in” crowd already. Sorry to disappoint Gwyneth but she is not being down with the people this time.
Did the pic show her actually eating the burger, or just posing with it?
In Boston, food trucks are very, very 2011.
It just shows something in a red and white napkin, could be anything.
There are some fantastic food trucks in Vegas as well. They bid to rotate in a space near where I work. It’s really fun to try different foods this way on our lunch break. But this has also been around for a quite a while here.
Here are some of Goops other first …..Must see hilarious
http://youtu.be/W9SHyJiSM6g
She didn’t write this. It doesn’t even sound like her and I assume that’s why it didn’t have her typical sign-off, etc.
I doubt GP knows what a food truck looks like.
I can’t believe I’m about to say this but I sort of see how she started on this path. We have a very sick member of our family and the very first thing we tried to do was stuff kale, broccoli, green tea etc down her throat. We were desperate to try and heal her with food. Now we’re just grateful when she eats.
But I kind of understand wanting to nourish the people you love most & wanting to spread good information to others.
Having said that I think she comes at it from way the wrong angle & she’s gone nuts with it all. Funny that desperation to be healthier/not age seems to have been the worst thing she could have done for her health/looks.
You are too kind, my friend.
For us plebes, food trucks have been around for years and are fabulous. I guess they are becoming the new “it” thing in LA, thus Goop has to post about. My sister and I have often fantasized about starting a food truck of sorts. I would leave my career of 30 years, she would sell her law firm and we start a business combining our favorite things: snacks and clothes. I am ashamed to admit that my sister and I are off-the-chain shopaholics. We buy things, then give them away to friends – often worn/used once or even with the tags still on. Clothes, bags, shoes, you name it. And we love sweets. So we fantasize about having a PMS-mobile (purses, munchies and shoes). Like a rolling consignment shop with snacks. You walk up and can buy a cupcake and a once-worn pair of Jimmy Choo’s. What could be better? Okay, okay. I won’t quit my day job.
Can I be your friend? LOL
LOL! I actually have friends come over and “shop” my closet. I am definitely a “mood shopper” and afterwards I look at whatever is that I bought and think “what the hell was I thinking?” I am also bad about not trying clothes on first and even worse about returning things. Many times, shoes that fit me in the store later don’t fit me (either too big or too small). So my philosphy is – let my friends and co-workers have it and whatever they don’t want, I give to charity. Many of my friends and co-workers are single mom’s and simply don’t have the discretionary funds to go shopping for themselves. My sister and I, who have no kids (or husbands), do have very stressful jobs that leads us to do a lot of retail therapy. So we feel “better” having shopped (yes, I know it’s a sickness) and my friends get a little something for themselves, the rest goes to charity – and everybody wins!
That’s a better vision of life than the goopster could ever dream of. Count me in as one of your customers if i’m ever in LA.
Fantastic idea! Come to Vegas once in while when you start will you??? I could go for a cupcake and some new (to me) shoes right now! 🙂
Awww. Love your idea! I would come at least twice a week.
I’m laughing….but I LOVE the idea!
Food trucks STARTED in LA as an outgrowth of the many taco trucks all over the city, something which has been entrenched here for at least 15 years. Non-Latinos just stole the idea and applied it to everything from Indian food to cupcakes to high-end fried chicken (Ludo), and it spread from here to everywhere else in the world (I am greatly amused by British taco and burrito trucks, er, caravans, er lorries).
Gwyneth is 1) sadly behind the times and 2) trying desperately to seem like one of the peasanty masses at whom she constantly looks down her nose. Fail on so many levels.
You know she purged it right after, if she actually swallowed anything 🙂
Other than British cock…
My cousin works on the Baby’s Badass Burger truck and helped serve Gwen and her family that day at the beach. She texted me like, “The Goop is here!!!” And I was like, “Is she being a bitch? Spill now!” And she said, “Nope. She’s actually really quite pleasant. And she has pretty skin in person. And she ate the whole burger.”
I was like, “Lies!”
Also, she visited the food truck fair months ago (before the break-up, I mean “un-coupling”, I think). So she’s just now writing about it for her blog.
Transparent. Her new name is Pander Bear. Go away, Goo.
Another fail. Reeks of phoniness because she is. She will do anything to improve her image and now to get Chris back (to improve her image) and it is so tiresome. And now that Chris is happily and thankfully out of the pic, and the kids will be more with him, we can’t wait til more and more of her GOOP is dragged through the mud. She has dedicated her life to being superior, harming others and controlling everyone around her as she damages them. Everything about her is just mean spirited, false, shallow and selfish. Now she has brought the height of the eating disorder to a whole new horrible level of the binge/purge orthorexia (sp?) to a new low to pass to off this very unhealthy and controlling eating disorder and try to pass it off as a cool desirable lifestyle instead of an illness, which is what it is! And just to again uselessly try to gain attention, likeability and money, All she is doing is NOT focusing on what she should be now and trying to divert other really really true and nasty info from leaking out. So blatantly pathetic. She seriously needs to go away and give it a rest – and leave Chris alone too while she’s at it.
I never understand how Gwyneth Paltrow gets so much hate over people like Rihanna, Miley Cyrus, not to mention the hundreds of “nothing” celebrities who appeared in a few movies and then just started making public appearances on red carpets as their job. Yeah she’s said some silly things more recently, but give her a break? I think she’s beautiful, actually talented and seems like a good mother. If it’s the Goop thing and her dishing out elite food and lifestyle advice, I really don’t see the harm in that. Yep she’s filthy rich but at least she didn’t make it doing reality shows or getting paid to appear at parties, and I kind of like that she eats ridiculously healthy because at least it’s like, ok that’s how she looks like that and that’s how she’s so toned. As opposed to the always in fashion “I don’t diet, I don’t workout” brand of celebs who may have seemed very cool and relatable to me as a teenager but now get on my last nerve.
All I’m saying is, there are so many worse people out there to hate on, and I actually like Gwyneth! And I hope she and Chris get back together, I loved them as a couple, and Alexa Chung or whoever else he’s been spotted with would be a huge downgrade from Goopy!
That was a very decent thing you said there…..GP’s so very easy to mock (mea maxima culpa) and she does make many ludicrous/annoying pronouncements, but it’s true that on my own ‘harmful-sleb-ometer’ she doesn’t even register.
She’s not out there giving almost-teens poor notions about womanhood, she’s just being a sub-Martha Stewart without the cool pets. (I ‘j’adore’ Martha, can’t she get up to no good so she gets on CB??!)
She’s certainly annoying but I don’t hate her. She doesn’t produce ire in me until she said that stupid, stupid elitist quote about work a day Moms having it easier than she does. Other than that all she produces in me are frequent eye-rolls.
I think people are sick of her rubbing her elitist lifestyle in everyone else’s face.
She is not the only person in the world who tries to eat healthy, work out, and keep fit. But she acts as though she invented all those things.
Yeah..not a fan but I agree she’s not nearly as terrible as people make her out to be.
And I think you have a point about her having had an ACTUAL career. She was pretty fantastic is several movies that she’s made.
You’re wrong because if you lurk around here, you will see that many get Goop’s same treatment if not worse.
She is unsufferable, but I don’t hate her. Sorry, I don’t hate or dislike people I will never meet.
She is a very good actress actually, and yes, she knew about food trucks for years. She invited a couple of trucks for the crew of Iron Man at the wrap party. Jon Favreau got to know the adviser for his movie Chef through Goopy.
But she does not eat healthy – the way she describes them, her eating habits do not sound healthy at all. And given that she actually aspires to be some kind of a lifestyle guru, she can do a lot of harm. Not to herself or her children – hopefully she still has some sane people left around, and she can afford good healthcare; but to people who listen to her and are naive enough to follow her advice.
That top photo is priceless. As for food trucks some of them are good, but here in NY you really need to be careful. They’re not nick named ‘roach coach’ for nothing.
She’s not writing it herself anymore: I can tell by a change in usage and syntax, that it’s not her “voice.” A lot of “we” and very little, if no use of “I.” Plus, the preachy tone is gone.
(I am an old journalist and former English teacher).
Spelling was fine before, but now “palettes” (which are large sequins) instead of the correct “palates,” (which is another way to indicate “taste buds.”
See if you can tell it’s not Gwyneth’s writing.
The voice is definitely less personal. I agree with Kaiser that her PR team must have put Ms. Elitist Blathermouth on lockdown after the “working mom” debacle, and commandeered her blog. It’s better for business (and humanity) if she sticks with just modeling clothing, handbags, cosmetics and playing fictional characters.
Dear sumodo1:
sorry, but I disagree. Palettes are what an artist uses for his paints.
Paillettes are the large sequins on dresses.
I like GOOP. Sometimes she can be insufferable, IMO , (which may stream from a depressive disorder of sorts) but I like her. I don’t mind that she gives “expensive advice” on everything; it’s just her schemata. Truthfully, I wish I was rich as hell, in great shape and fit, but I’m working on it. I read GOOP’s blog just to see how the other half lives, and I get that she doesn’t gear her retail for folks on the lower end of the financial scale, like me, but then again, neither does Versace, Dolce and Gabanna, nor Posh Spice. And you know what, I’m alright with that.
Why do so many people seem to think Goop is a vegetarian? She eats lots of fish, but also red meat too. That is not a vegetarian at all.
Just one Goop newsletter where she’s feeding the hungry or sheltering the defenseless. Or one where she demonstrated something that can touch and affect everyone in a positive way. She just generates so much negativity because she is so self-centered and doesn’t give back in a way except donating clothes she’s already worn to raise money for charity. She’s over 40 now, chasing after It Girl status feels tiring and stupid. She’s not “It” anymore, so -honestly- she has the freedom to be anyone, yet she still chases this ghost of her image. Her daughter will be in the age range to write about this stuff in 5 years and will inevitably become the It girl she’s trying so hard to be in this curatorial role for Goop (Which will probably go the same way as Daily Candy)… Gwyneth needs to grow up and realize that she’s not 25 anymore, and step up to use her celebrity in a better way than whining, bragging and lording over others. She’s not at Spence anymore, she’s really stuck. Cut you hair, travel to third world nations, do something – anything – Gwyneth.