First of all, does Gwyneth Paltrow look different on the March cover of Glamour? She looks a bit too apple-cheeked, which makes me wonder about fillers. I don’t think that’s the product of Photoshop either – I think she’s getting fillers and Botox on the reg. Anyway, yes, Goop covers the new issue of Glamour to promote her collaboration with Juice Beauty, and because she’s no longer getting magazine covers to promote film roles. You can read Goop’s Glamour interview here. Some highlights:
Believe in yourself: “Self-belief is everything. You have to have enough self-belief to see where you’re gonna end up and not let anybody derail you.”
The new archetype of womanhood: “I think we’re in the midst of creating a new archetype of a woman, and we’re gonna get there. And I’ve never minded pushing anything along, taking some slings and arrows. Our daughters will look at us and be like, “Oh, so you get to work and be a mommy and wear beautiful lipstick.” I mean, when they have a hole in their uniform, I sew it. I make the food; I bathe them. And I’m a sexual being and a powerful woman and entrepreneur. I’m all of those things. We now realize that we have permission to be everything.”
Her relationship with Chris Martin: “We spend a lot of time together. He’s been away for two weeks [promoting his album]. Last night he got in at midnight and slept here so he could surprise the kids in the morning, we could all have breakfast, and he could take them to school. So … we’re not living together, but he’s more than welcome to be with us whenever he wants. And vice versa: I sleep in his house in Malibu a lot with the kids. We’re still very much a family, even though we don’t have a romantic relationship. He’s like my brother.”
She’s not in a rush to re-marry: “I believe in marriage. But I’m not even divorced yet! So give me a minute.”
Her kids: “They’re in a really good space. They’re smart, they’re funny, they have pretty good heads on their shoulders. We’ll see what difficulties come with adolescence and what careers they want. Unfortunately, I think they’re both gonna be drawn to perform. They’re naturals – they sing, act, play guitar, do stand-up – it’s brimming out of them. So I feel like my mother. Whenever I said I wanted to be an actress, she said, ‘Oh no, don’t. You’re too smart to be an actress. Do something else!’ ”
She’s self-made: “People think, ‘She’s just a rich kid.’ Until I was 18, I was. Then I was broke. I’ve never taken a dime off my parents. I’m completely self-made … I went to UC Santa Barbara, and when I quit to try to be an actress, my dad was like, ‘That’s great, but I’m not gonna help you.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, right.’ And he was like, ‘No, I’m not.’ So I got an apartment with a roommate; I worked as a hostess at a restaurant; I would scrounge quarters to buy Starbucks — and walk there to save gas. I remember once asking my dad for money, like, ‘Please, I’m really stuck. Can you help?’ And he said, ‘You’re more than welcome to come over for dinner.’ That was it. Those were the days. Enough to know the value of money.”
Juice Beauty & her California posse: “The line is made in California, so I was thinking of my California posse: Cameron, Blythe, Apple, Drew, Reese, Kate, Chelsea. If you were to ask me what my biggest success is, it’s that I’ve been able to maintain and nourish my relationships. As you get older, you choose friends based on not only what feels resonant and warm but if they’re bringing something to your life. My women friends are incredibly intelligent. There’s no posturing, no competition. Especially in Los Angeles, I see pockets of friends who are very competitive, and I think, What is the point? I would rather be alone in bed with a book than have a girlfriend who is like that.”
The girlfriends she name-checks? Cameron Diaz, Blythe Danner, Apple Martin, Drew Barrymore, Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Chelsea Handler. Chelsea’s head just exploded from being included in that group. As for the “not competitive” thing – I get it, I understand what she’s saying, but my first thought was “spoken like a true Queen Bee.” Maybe she genuinely not competitive with her girlfriends. Or maybe she feels – as she’s always felt –that she’s the most important person in whichever group she’s in and that no one CAN “compete” with her (except for Jennifer Lawrence, haha).
As for the rest of it… Classic Goop. Chris and Gwyneth are like brother-sister? I can totally see that. And as for Goop having it all… sure. But when hasn’t she had it all, or at least tried to convince everyone that she has it all?
Photos courtesy of Glamour.
She may not have directly taken a dime off them but she was industry royalty, her godfather is Spielberg ffs so it was never going to be hard for her to get her foot in the door and start making money
and lets all be honest, her Oscar was bought and paid for by Weinstein.
exactly. even if her dad didn’t give her any money, she got a foot in the door because she was who she was. self made my arse.
also, her career was such a disappointment? i remember when she did shakespeare in love and emma, i was little and had such a crush on her. she should have been another kate winslet, and now she does goop.
I loved her in Emma. What happened?
@ minx took the words right out my mouth
Exactly. She didn’t have to struggle too long because unlike many other actors, she had uncle steven to give a part in one of his big budget movies… A central part. Paltrow bugs me to no end. I just wish she would once acknowledge that she had more opportunities than most because of her patents wealth and position. I’m sure she works hard but she does come off like a major princess.
I can’t stomach this woman.
I know so many people, including my husband, who grew up with NOTHING and made lives for themselves.
It’s not her “fault” her parents were rich and connected, that’s fine. But when she acts as if she pulled herself up by the bootstraps I want to throw something.
@Lindy79 …
Agreed. There was no way Gwyneth’s performance in “Shakespeare in Love” should have won over Cate Blanchett’s stellar performance in “Elizabeth.”
GOOP had several films released in 1998, once which was “The Perfect Murder” with Michael Douglas. She was such a snotty thing back then. She complained about how weird and creep it was to play the wife of an ‘old man.’ That got back to Michael Douglas, who quipped about ‘young, marginally talented actresses who only get movie roles because of who they’re dating.’ Gwyneth was still dating Brad Pitt when “The Perfect Murder” was filmed. Ha! 🙂
In her defense, that casting with Michael Douglas WAS “weird and creepy”. She shouldnt have taken the role though.
@Naya …
Is there really a good defense for deliberate rudeness? Kate Winslet was much younger than 26 (Goop’s age when she filmed “A Perfect Murder”) when she played the love interest of Alan Rickman in the 1995 film “Sense and Sensibility,” yet (to her credit) she didn’t stick her finger in her mouth in public and complain about how ‘old’ Alan Rickman was because of their age differences.
Yes, but Michael Douglas is her godfather, he helped her get in to UC Santa Barbara, so that whole shade thing is even more weird.
@Lizzie
If Michael is her Godfather, the casting is a hundred times weirder and creepier than we thought. One of them should have declined the role.
@Lizzie, Michael Douglas is not her godfather, Steven Spielberg is.
Eh. It was gross and creepy. I’m glad she said it!! And he couldn’t shade her for getting jobs because of her parentage because his own career benefitted from his own parentage (although he turned out to be a pretty terrific actor in the end) so he went for the boyfriend instead.
@ Emma
To be fair, though, isn’t it an actual plot point in Sense and Sensibility that Colonel Brandon is quite a bit older than Marianne? It’s been a while since I read that book, but I remember it being like Marianne doesn’t see him as a romantic suitor because he was “old and staid.” In that context, it makes sense that there would be an age disparity between the actors playing Marianne and Brandon.
As bad as it is, that film is my favourite Sunday night movie. Amazing costumes and beautiful sets. So much 90’s brown lipstick!
I have ALWAYS said that Cate’s Elizabeth (as well as the movie) was masterful. I didn’t even think Paltrow was that believable as a boy (or a girl for that matter) in Shakespeare in Love. The other actors carried the movie!!
I never got over that. It seemed rigged to me. cate Blanchett is clearly the better actor.
She’s as self made as Brooklyn Beckham.
I feel like Brooklyn Beckham would be more self aware than Paltrow, though – he seems level-headed and reasonably intelligent. Paltrow doesn’t understand what “self-made” means.
Yup she is so out of touch! She was sent to high end expensive schools and luxurious settings her entire life. She needs to STFU. She wins for being more disliked for her attitude and lifestyle branding the last few years.
Gwyneth is trying to be clever and coy in her interview. Technically, she may not have TAKEN anything. But you don’t have to TAKE….when everything is ALREADY GIVEN.
Are the Beckham children home schooled? Does Brooklyn ever go to school? I’ve yet to see an article about or a picture of the school he and his siblings attend.
The website Daily Mail has had pics of the Beckham boys in school uniforms and pics of them playing soccer at school. They’ve also shown David walking his daughter to kindergarten or maybe preschool.
@Lizzie…
No! S. Spielberg is Goopy’s godfather. I believe he is Drew Barrymore’s and a few others’ as well! M. Douglas, did, however help get her into UCSB. I remember the conversations! After Emma, I saw promise in her. Yeah, it pisses me off she considers herself self-made. She DID NOT work herself up from the bottom to the top. Oh no no.
@Naya…
ITA with everything you said.
Yeah, I think the people who criticize Paltrow for lacking self-awareness have a point. If she had a broader perspective, she’d expect some backlash to that “self-made” argument and wouldn’t put it out there in the first place. [Acknowledge your family connections, Gwyneth. They had something to do with where you are.]
I’ve got to say though, I agree with her when she says “self-belief is everything.” She’s got that and I’ve always kind of admired her for it. She may not be that wise to the perspective and experiences of other people, but she does give herself fully to making the most of the opportunity she has.
And she didn’t just quit UCSB, she failed out. Entitled and beyond tone deaf. Every time I read a post about her, my eyes just about roll out of my head.
Snort, snort, this article. At this point I am convinced this woman has a personality disorder or she is trolling us for publicity and attention. The lack of self awareness , BS and delusion is total Narcisisstic Personality Disorder.
Never took a dime from her parents? Oh rillllly? Uncle Steven and other industry friends who know her parents hired her, so, that’s kinda sorta the same thing Miss Self Made. Plus didn’t Daddy buy her the diamond necklace she wore at the Oscars. Not a dime though – I think she literally means ‘dime’ here. And who the hell buys Starbucks when they’re really broke?
I had that reaction too! It shows how out of touch she is and the whole “I walked uphill to school both ways”. She scrounged to buy expensive coffee but walked to save pennies on gas?! That is silly. I was broke in college and a Starbucks drink is like 12 packets of Top Ramen- I never bought Starbucks and instead figured out all the different ways you could cook Top Ramen so it seemed different ever day.
MC2- Been there, done that. There were times when a cup of coffee from Starbucks was an indulgence. I even spent some time using a Link Card, but I was fortunate enough to have parents who helped out occasionally, while I was college/grad school and worked fulltime.
Yeah, and I would argue that it’s still pretty different: to be cut off for educational and character-building purposes vs. literally having no support. I’m sure if she had been in an accident or fell sick, her parents would gladly pay her medical bills, for example. Just knowing that is a HUGE comfort in the US! Compare that to someone who doesn’t have parents or has parents who are also broke, so if misfortune strikes, they have no one to turn to.
If you’re that broke you don’t save your quarters for a coffee at Starbucks. You make your own or get McDonald’s or Dunkin Donuts.
This is precisely what privileged people do not get about how privilege works.
Nobody is saying they didn’t “work hard” (though honestly I doubt that Goop every worked all that hard). The point is by virtue of connections, money, and privilege, they started out with a series of nice fat invisible blank checks which open doors– and which they get to take completely for granted. They do not even know they are there, because they have no concept of what it is like to not have them.
People who do not have privilege work just as hard, if not harder– and get nowhere because the thumb on the scale is working oh so very very hard… in someone else’s favor, probably a niece or nephew, etc.
Bye Felicia indeed.
As Ann Richards said about George W. Bush: “He was born on third base, and thought he hit a homerun.”
Priceless.
Urgh so true. She is extremely privileged with a ton of powerful connections, she can just accept it. You are not self made when your first role is in a TV show your dad directed.
Perfectly said. Completely and utterly lacking in any self-awareness, is Paltrow.
I still can’t figure out quite what it IS, exactly, that makes so many extremely privileged people like her so unwilling to admit to their privilege. Because they’re afraid that it will make them unlikeable, unrelatable? Doesn’t make sense to me, because trying to deny the obvious fact of their privilege makes them far, far more unlikeable.
my first though exactly. Uncle Steven gave her a salary of 6 figures at age 16-17. Hard times.
I’m sure that she lived with her folks and/or they paid her rent and bills after high school graduation/while she was getting established in the industry. Give me a break. She such a phoney-baloney poser – she barely graduated from high school and would have had a much tougher go at it without her parents. All style, no substance. Money does not by class or integrity. Gwyneth is definitely nouveau riche.
Goopy’s dad gave her plenty of money in kind. Who paid for her to go to UCSB and spend the year auditioning down the coast in Hollywood? Daddy. Before the end of the year, she already had a paycheck and not one of those minimum wage college paychecks either. So blind to reality. Another silver spooner who was born on third and thinks she hit a home run.
Exactly! If her parents paid for her college, then she was not entirely self-made. I bet she’s never known the slow death of paying off a student loan!
Bye Felicia!
*snaps fingers Cookie style*
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Her face seems awful in the cover. Too botox
I didn’t even recognise her at first glance. She reminds me of Tara Reid on that cover and that’s not a good thing.
Her eyes are terrifying on the cover, where are they? Where is she looking? Photoshop fail!
She’s trying to look at herself probably, since she’s so great, lol
Her eyes are frightening in that pic! Did they catch her mid-eye roll?
Seriously, it looks like she can shoot lasers from those things.
All of those “friends” are blondes. #goopyaryandreams
#goopsowhitecantnameonebrownfriendforcaliposse
Oh but she can. Haven’t you heard? It’s *Uncle* Jay.
So?!?!
It’s odd that she didn’t name check the fabulously blonde Beyonce in this list. Aren’t Jay and Bey in L.A. now??? Weren’t they BFF’ s????
When Gwyneth say her parents did not ” help” does that include asking some famous and influential family friends give her a break in the business? Isn’t her godfather Steven Spielberg?
Or the fact that she had a trust fund to help her out? Does she count that as help or nah? She had her godfather or her parents’ friends to help her out to start her career. I usually defend The Goop (I know!) but the “I didn’t take money, I’m not privileged” is so not true.
Her very first acting role was on stage in Massachusetts. With her mother.
Well and that is another thing: people who have trust funds tend often to view that money as being “theirs,” and, well, technically it is.
But when people say “My family did not help me out! I paid my own way….” and that money they used to pay their way comes from a trust fund, they need to pull back and think a bit. And they often don;t because… they don’t have to. And that of course is part of the privilege.
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I went to UCSB and met some rich students from Beverly Hills. They were blind to their good fortune and really didn’t understand how the other 99% of the planet lives.
How Goopy. You know, my parents supported me through college, then I was “on my own” too, and I was quite poor. But they were there. I was too proud to ever ask them for money, but had I been in a really desperate situation, they were there. She doesn’t get that a lot of people don’t have that, and are one paycheck or stroke of bad luck away from homelessness. It’s great that she had to struggle. I think it’s good for anyone to learn the value of money. But she’s just so blind to her privilege and to the fact that she had a safety net that many people don’t, and that makes a huge difference in the risks you can take. I imagine she also had opportunities that most people don’t have, as well. This is why she grates on people, I think.
Exactly! I’M self-made. My dad left us with nothing. We had no house… my mom and siblings borrowed money from me for expenses while I put myself through college. We all had to work from our early teens… Goop and her blonde friends belong together… I wish they’d get real and stop pretending to be like the rest of us.
Good job for you! You should be proud of that! I wrote above about how buying Starbucks when “totally broke” is silly and as I was writing that I couldn’t afford Starbucks in college I was also thinking “but you did have a parents pantry to sneak into if totally starving” & “I knew I would never be homeless and could move in with them”. It’s all about perspective and it seems like Goop doesn’t have any here.
This exactly.
Agreed 100%, GNAT. Especially the part about being able to take risks when you have a built-in safety net.
It’s so much easier to just “go for it” when you know you will never end up out on the street. But for those of us who truly never had any hope of financial support, the idea that taking the same risk might just wind up with you facing homelessness is enough to induce a heavy dose of caution. I’m “self-made” myself, and am proud of the successes that I’ve had. But I’ve also witnessed others in my profession who got ahead by striking out in risky directions, and every single one of them came from well-to-do families with the knowledge that if they failed, they would be bailed out.
I’m not self made but my parents weren’t rich. Lucky for me I could borrow from them if necessary. That being said, I have all the admiration in the world for those who have made it on their own and truly started out with nothing, unlike Paltrow.
Yes, this.
The reason she grates on me is that she COULD make a good point if she could just adjust her perspective a tiny bit. She did learn something about the value of money, and it’s interesting that her parents made the decisions they did, but she then extrapolates that into being self-made and once again seems completely tone deaf.
She did a similar thing a few years back in an article she wrote about parenting. Instead of talking about things that she could talk about with some degree of credibility, like the emotional/ internal challenge even highly privileged women (and men) can face when balancing a career/vocation with raising children, she chose to talk about the physical/ logistical challenges of having a career and raising two kids and she came off like a total ass. Saying that it’s hard to find one-on-one time with each kid is relatable; solving the problem by alternating one-on-one breakfasts with each kid is not going to work for people without staff.
It’s like she’s smart enough to understand that there’s something there that people want to read about but too stupid to understand exactly what parts of her experience actually align with the general public’s.
Thanks GNAT: that’s it in a nutshell, but with way more privilege than just a safety net, as others have noted.
Lmao. I think she is just trolling you guys at this point. Of course, her name helped her score agents and auditions. It probably helped clinch her first jobs too. And theres no way her dad would ever have allowed her to be truly destitute. Broke doesnt mean the same for somebody with that kind of safety net. I find her harmless and extremely amusing so this clear fib doesnt bug me too much but wow.
It really doesn’t strike me as a fib. Based on other quotes she has given and her overall cluelessness I am convinced she believes every word of her own grand delusion.
Her mother was probably slipping her money under the table.
Agreed. She’s still my most hated celebrity and I will avoid a movie I’d otherwise see if she’s in it.
Hey, Gwyneth, your family connections are worth more than money. So, no, you aren’t self-made, you ninny. “Uncle Stevie” was instrumental in getting your career started.
Ugh. She’s so out of touch.
Oh, get over yourself. self made? More like nepotism. You may not have taken money from your parents but you certainly wouldn’t have had a career in hollywood without them. They are the only reason she became famous, because of connections. This has to be one of her most obnoxious quotes yet.
“Then I was broke.” This is just offensive to anyone who doesn’t come from a rich background. You may not have had money in your bank account, but you NEVER would have slept on the streets with nowhere to go. She’s always irritated me but this is a new level of stupidity. She is an idiot and so out of touch.
Having the name “Paltrow” alone surely opened a few door for her, non? As always, she’s full of it.
Yeah she’s full of it and a giant truckload of those suction cups (therapy) she likes still wouldn’t deplete her of it.
Goopy’s new theme song: “Common People”
“You’ll never live like common people
You’ll never do whatever common people do
You’ll never fail like common people
You’ll never watch your life slide out of view
And dance and drink and screw
Because there’s nothing else to do
LOVE that song! “… And then they’ll tear you limb from limb. Because. EVERYBODY. Hates. A. Tourist. ” or something like that…
“My daddy’s buying me this necklace!” – apparently spoken at a 1999 Oscars after party after winning for a role in a script she stole off Winona Ryder’s coffee table. Allegedly.
Self made. Got it. Go away forever please.
Thieving goop.
Exactly. I can’t stand her. She’s always so full of herself and a generous heaping of bullsh1t.
I keep seeing this accusation, but have yet to understand how she stole anything from Winona. Was there only one copy of the script in all Hollywood and the person who had it got the role, like Willy Wonka’s golden ticket? It makes no sense. Of course every woman of that age range knew about and wanted the part. It’s not stealing when you win the audition.
That’s why she doesn’t have any film roles to promote – she’s “too smart” to be an actress.
And thank you Goop, for taking the slings and arrows of being a working mother. Certainly that’s never been done before!
I know, right? All mothers take care of all the things she mentions and more (but aren’t her children a bit old for her to be bathing them?). She wants a medal for doing things for her kids instead of letting the nanny team do them? And yes, it’s easy to be “every woman” when you have nannies, housekeepers, and personal assistants. This is what I mean by narcissists thinking that their experiences are so much more meaningful than anyone else.
Wow,she really is the most obnoxiously smug interviewee ever. Her stories of hardship made me laugh: WALKING to Starbucks! And she makes it sound like she’s singlehandedly spearheaded women’s liberation , or wait. I mean changing the prototype of what a woman is! Ugh and double ugh…
Don’t laugh, Nikki, we can wear lipstick now thanks to Goop. I feel so free.
and we can all be sexual beings because of her example. aren’t we lucky.
she also said she doesn’t use any sun screen, and it bloody well shows! she has the worst skin for someone who’s barely 43.
As always she goes from one extreme to another. She’s done every extreme diet until it made her sick. Actively avoided any sun exposure until THAT made her sick. Now she’s not using any protection until she reaches the point where it makes her sick and so on and so forth.
Even her hair is extreme. Her natural hair is curly brown. And look at the super straight blonde (and horrendous condition) it is.
I so agree. Have a feeling we’d have endless fodder whilst sharing a bottle of wine.
I was thinking the same thing Elle. What’s the point in spending SO MUCH MONEY on lasers, skin peels etc. if you don’t wear sunscreen? Pretty much the MAIN cause of those issues other than natural aging – she’s not old enough to look THAT leathery! Was’t there some report where she spends $20k a month on skin treatments? Ugh, this stupid woman.
As usual, she is self congratulating in what she thinks is a subtle manner. Her mom told her “she’s too smart to be an actress”??? Way to insult every person who went into acting without the benefit of family connections, and also way to let us know that in addition to all the other rich kids of celebs, we’ll soon be adding a couple more to the list of “self-made” celebs. Poor Apple and whatever, they will face such a struggle too, with a famous mom and dad.
As for the rest of her quotes, I have a migraine from the eye rolling. If she cooks for the kids, what does her chef do? Hang out with the maids gossiping in the garden while poor Goopy works her fingers to the bone running a business, sewing on buttons, slapping her name on cosmetics and what else? My Lord, this woman is tiring.
Not a fan of Gwyneth, the person, though I do like some of the characters she’s played (love the Royal Tenanbaums), anyway, she overstated the “I’m self-made bit” — of course she had family help breaking into the business, but if it is true that her parents didn’t give her any money after she left college, good for them and good for Gwyneth working a “peasant” job or jobs to make money. How many offspring of current Hollywood royalty are going to ever lift a finger to do anything for themselves?
Candice Bergen and Michael Douglas both came from an affluent background and both have acknowledged that privilege has helped them to some degree. I think Candice Bergen does outline her struggles but is the first to say she had it easier than others. I think in that regard she is very different from Goop and Is why I like Candice and not the “self-made” Goopster.
I think Gwyneth dabbled in the acting stuff when her mom was doing plays at Williamstown the same way a lot of current generation kids do on their parents’ movie sets, but since this was pre-internet, and her mom wasn’t unfathomably famous despite being well-connected, this probably wasn’t publicized to any great degree like it would be now. I think her parents laid a lot of the ground-work for her to be able to transition from dropping out of university to get into acting without a lot of hassle. Her dad did pull strings through Michael Douglas for her to gain admittance to college since her grades were so bad, so I’m not even sure if her parents really expected that she’d stick with college (which she didn’t). The plan all along seemed to be to get her into acting. She did get mentions in her mom’s acting profiles in places like the NY Times when Gwyneth was up and coming. The old articles are out there on Google.
She didn’t mess up the acting opportunities she did get, but I don’t think her trajectory to getting into acting was radically different from what other Hollywood offspring are currently doing.
“Our daughters will look at us and be like, “Oh, so you get to work and be a mommy and wear beautiful lipstick.””
lets all hope they have a few deeper thoughts, too.
also no person in the world is “self made”. its more respectable of course when someone works their way up and wasnt born into wealth (or has Spielberg as the godfather) but you still depend on others. all of the people that work for you, the people in your field that laid the basis of what you are working on, people who teach you when you are a kid, the police who protects your company and wealth, the people who pay taxes to build and maintain roads and hospitals etc.
this whole “self made” is not only a myth but is such ridiculous bullcrap.
I agree about the “self-made” part. There are very few people who are really self made. Most of us benefited from those who came before.
I also think that the whole “self made”, “pull yourself up by the bootstraps”, “just work hard enough” rhetoric is very dangerous because it creates a midset that says that those who are poor just didn’t work hard enough. The truth is, poverty is mostly fault of the system and not the individual.
@Locke Lamora and Esther, beautiful what both of you said, thank you!
even her job at santa Monica airport at the restaurant was given to her via nepotism. and it wasn’t like McDonald’s either.
scoring her agent? nepotism. he pretty much MADE her.
so she’s self made because she showed up?
always so aware, the goop, naming all the blondes she has vaguely morphed into during a #hollywoodsowhite media frenzy.
she is a terrible spokesman.
Yikes. Just yikes.
For starters a lot of people don’t even have the luxury of their parents supporting them while they are in college! Clearly people saying she is Marie Antoinette levels of out of touch really gets to her and now she’s grasping at straws. Your self made because you had roommates? Congratulations so did any other sons/daughters of millionaires who lived in a college dorm…..
Wouldn’t be surprised if she had fillers, etc as she is pretty fair skinned and seems to be in the sun a fair amount.
And this is also part of nepotism: the inability or refusal to see it.
HAHAHAHA HAHAHAHA sorry have to breathe HAHAHAHA oh lord. The definition of white privilege just said she was self made. I’m not awake enough for this.
She is simply an incredibly unintelligent person.
Girl, please.
Poor GOOP, having to tone down her message so she can sell to the masses.
She doesn’t understand the difference between being kinda broke with the cushion of family money behind her and being really broke with nothing to fall on. I guarantee you that her parents didn’t leave her without healthcare and wouldn’t have helped if genuinely necessary. I also don’t believe that they weren’t paying at least some of her expenses for the simple reason that I’ve never met someone with wealthy parents who weren’t massively helped despite falsely claiming to do everything themselves. Most of my friends from school were extremely privileged and utterly oblivious to the advantages they had over others.
As for the acting, 99% of it is getting your foot in the door, something most people will never have the opportunity for. With her family and associations she was in every audition she wanted.
She’s deluded to believe she’s ‘self made’ in the way that someone from a poor background without every door opened for them is. She’s so out of touch it’s embarrassing.
Exactly! On my 18th birthday I woke up and burst into tears because I was no longer covered by my parents health care. I really, really want to pop her bubble.
This is a minor point but the ‘I walked to Starbucks” bit stuck out to me. When I’ve been really hard up financially Starbucks was a major luxury. Now if she said she walked to the local convenience store to get a cup of cheap coffee? OK I’d buy she was truly poor. lol
And the funniest part is that I’m sure the convenience store coffee would have been better than Starbucks’ overpriced slop.
ITA @Holmes lol
Or bust out her Melitta and a can of Folgers! Then, I know you are hard up.
Most of this was typical Goop’s poop, but the comments about Chris Martin are just odd, even for Goop. They start out fine enough, and very believable, but then she adds “he’s like my brother” at the end. I don’t know; to me, that is just weird. Say, “he is one of my best friends,” or stick with “we are not romantically involved, but we are still very much a family” but not that he is like your brother. Also, when she is speaking about CM, she mentions about how her father’s death was the inspiration for his new album- how she was inspiration for the new album- and that he asked her sing on it. Doesn’t she say this about every coldplay album? That Chris was inspired by watching her grieve her father’s death? I get that she was a typical “Daddy’s Girl,” and she no doubt loved her father immensely and she probably misses him every day, but EVERYTHING SHE SHILLS is because she is grieving the death of her father. Ugh. Finally, yes, her cheeks looked a stuffed Thanksgiving turkey.
I think her “he’s like my brother” comment is meant to be kind of a dig. It’s a way of saying ‘there is NO sexual attraction here anymore.’
The weird thing is, Chris Martin actually LOOKS like her brother! Creeeeeeepy.
WHY HAS SHE NOT DISAPPEARED YET?
Nepotism
I remember her saying her father gave her money not to accept a role in Vanilla-Ices movie. Sooo… She was always in position to get help. I think selfmade doesnt fit her. I think she meant to say i was nepotismin made.
About as self made as Brooklyn Becks.
Wow. She’s absolutely full of it, isn’t she?
Like brother? Just eww – you do not say that the father of your children is like a brother.
Excluding Drew and Cameron the rest are just a bunch a mean girls and all are blonde (wonder why?)
What is so wrong about admitting that there are compensations for having famous parents and godparents in the business?? No one’s saying that she didn’t put forth the effort but don’t insult our intelligence by telling us your family contacts didn’t help because they did. BTW-truly poor people don’t scrounge for starbucks, they scrounge for food period.
Everything that comes out of her mouth screams “Please validate me!” Really, if she was such a together, happenin’ lady she wouldn’t *need* to be perfect, and have it all, and have everyone know she’s self-made, and constantly exclaim it to the world. Could she have any less self-awareness? No, she could not.
True. Often her comments read like someone who is anticipating and defending against a certain criticism. It tells you she takes it to heart and needs to fight against it a bit.
Kanye made it so we could wear tight jeans. Goopy made it so we could wear beautiful lipstick. Praise our pioneering special snowflake messiahs.
Gwyneth, darling … look up nepotism. Without it, no one would know your name.
Exactly. When she first became known, her name was attached to her parents as a description. She definitely did not just arrive in the big city with an unknown name and no connections.
Donald Trump is self made as well.Well except for that paltry $5 Million from his dad.
Chump, I mean Trump, change. (Sorry for the pun. I couldn’t help myself.)
It sounds like she had a good dad. I can’t hate on her, but I understand why she grates. But honestly, she has hustled her ASS off to get where she is. She could have ended up a Paris Hilton, but she actually had parents who guided her to do something with her life.
I can’t believe I am about to defend Paris Hilton…she started modeling at 15 and has a huge variety of business interests, including what was a huge reality series (shoot me now) and is now a popular DJ.
The difference is that Hilton doesn’t even pretend to deny her family connections opened many doors.
Sure, Paris has been proactive about making money off her own image. But that image is made up of what exactly? Bubblegum & ditziness from what I can see. She may be profiting from it, but it isn’t like she’s adding real value to the world.
I don’t think Gwyneth is adding real value either. I guess we take her seriously because of her Oscar, but if you had told me after her Oscar win that this would be what Gwyneth is doing now with all the shilling for GOOP and talking about steam cleaning body parts, I would not have believed you.
Please.
We are talking about an actress/product-shiller – not Eleanor Roosevelt.
She put effort into auditioning for roles in movies,
so she could be famous, desired and rich.
What she’s “doing with her life” is making bank.
What amazes me is that she is still able to get interviews. Her comments about being a successful, self made businesses woman obviously offend self made business women. Other comments about being the best, most intouch mother offended every mother that ever there was. Claims of superior intelligence over other actors offends actors, not to mention the rest of the world. Her self proclaimed health/guru title offends anyone who really understands the industry and men don’t usually pick up these magazines. It’s another Gwyneth mystery.
But her biggest crime is her inability to unclench that jaw of steel while “acting”.
I guess listening to Goopy wax on about being self made is a bit like what it must feel like for people of color listening to white people go on about how how white privilege doesn’t exist. Refusing to acknowledge that just showing up with blond hair and white skin makes your life easier. I don’t have time to be eloquent, (running late) but hopefully my point well taken. Shut up Goop. Acknowledge your advantages and be grateful.
People who are comfortable with who they are don’t humble brag. My parents helped me out a lot and I would never pretend otherwise. Her cluelessness grates.
How hard would it be to simply say she is grateful for all her parents did for her. End of story. I would respect that.
If she would say something like, “I’m very grateful for all the opportunities I’ve been given in my life and I strive not to squander those opportunities”, I would completely respect that. Because, to her credit, she has not squandered her opportunities and that is an admirable character trait.
Her name is Paltrow, her godfather is Spielberg. How are those things NOT helpful and useful in Hollywood when trying to become an Actor? If she had gone to acting school, paid for by herself or even her trust fund, I wouldn’t side eye her so much.
Gwyneth – there’s money and then there are connections, which are sometimes more important. Your parents gave you your connections, and money.
Let’s just file this under “Bitch, Please” and move on. She is boring and exhausting at the same time.
Didn’t she try this “I was broke and had no help, did it all on my own” schtick before? No one believed her or cared then, why is she rehashing it?
I love the picture with the orange dress. That’s all I got from this stupid interview.
Gwyneth, darling, what was your very first role? At age 5? On stage? In Williamstown? Do you seriously believe you would have been on that stage if Blythe Danner was not your mother?
Or have gotten your SAG card on Hook if Spielberg was not your godfather?
Sure.
That girl name-drops like nobody’s business.
This is such a born rich thing to say. A person who has truly built themselves from the ground up would never make such redundant claims. Trash.
She only needed to be born, and her future was assured. It will be the same for her daughter.
And shoot, of all the lipsticks, you mean her bestie Beyoncé doesn’t have one?
My only problem with the idea of “women having it all” is that a lot of women still expect men to have a career and make money like that’s their only option. Men still get looked down on for being a stay at home husband and/or father. Also, women still expect men to pay for dates and stuff. And both the woman and man get made fun of if a woman dates/marries a man with a smaller income than her/no income (Jessica Simpson and her man, Kaley Cuoco and her ex-man, etc). I’m all for women being dominant in the workplace and in relationships but then we have to allow men to be submissive in the workplace and in relationships.
Wonderful statement! I agree with every word. See also how Nick Cannon was ridiculed for not having as much money as Mariah, but she gets with a billionaire and not a peep. Double standards and still misogyny.
Rewriting history again Gwynnie? This is a flat out lie. I know that I recall her saying in the past that she never took any money from her parents … except that they paid her rent! Yeah, rent/mortgage isn’t like the most expensive part of running a household or anything …
Her B.S. is just a typical part of the mindset of people of privilege.
Self made like Brooklyn Beckham!
is she so delusional to actually think that she would be where she is without her family connections?! she’s average on all counts and to imply that a person off the street with her looks and qualifications can get to the same level is just plain cruel and rude.
I’m not sure if she’s really that dumb or trying to make herself seem relatable to sell her products.
I’ve always taken up for GP because I like her. But this is the kind of shit that she says that has people being harsh on her about everything else, harmless or not. A friend or someone she trusts needs to tell her that she is very out of touch with reality in regards to what the true meaning of being broke entails.
Did conscious uncoupling also unconsciously erased part of her vocabulary? A soon to be ex-husband is not and will not be a ‘brother’. Ew!
I actually think she a great actress. She’s completely insufferable and up her own arse in real life, but she’s often charming, sincere and compelling onscreen. So she must be talented for that reason alone.
Still built her career on nepotism though.
Her first role was a film written and directed by her daddy. Why on earth does she always find a need to prove to us that’s she’s delusional. We get it!!!
“I had to scrounge to buy Starbucks,” says it all to me.
Goop is goop.
She’s self-made. Best Joke this Decade.
This “you can work be a mommy and wear a beautiful lipstick” combination is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard ! It’s absolutely ridiculous and silly and I can’t believe I can be bothered to comment on it. Since when are those three things incompatible, at least in modern times? Did Goop invent the work-motherhood-lipstick thing?
I don’t even want to imagine what her group of friends – names in the post – talk about when they meet. They all seem so mean to me.
Im calling bullshit on the Starbucks.
Hilarious that every member of her California circle is blonde. I guess that’s part of the criteria for being Goop-worthy?
This headline is such obvious troll bait.
We have to thank goodness we are not going through life that deluded.
Lol!!!
I find it hilarious that she doesn’t get the absolute stupidity of this statement…
The again, this is Goop talking…she definitely believes her own bullshit.
She is totally Emma without the likeability. She thinks she’s Jane Fairfax, tho.
Goop makes a point of being out of touch with the plebs. It’s her brand. Not acknowledging her starting line was closer to success compared to others is part of who she is.
Doesn’t make her any less snotty.
Because of course nothing that happens before you’re 18 gives you the slightest preparation for life, right? Going to the best schools is no different than going to an underfunded/overcrowded public school with an assembly line mentality. And your family’s social circles don’t help you in the slightest. This is the highest form of privilege: not even recognising you’re privileged.
And another who was born on third base and thought they won a triple.
I was just about to say the same thing. She was already ahead of the crowd the day she was born simply because of who her parents were. Who is she kidding?
Sure, Jan.
The picture of her in the orange dressis STUNNING.
Gwyneth amuses me. I want to pat her on the head and say “That’s nice, dear” after reading her interviews.
that orange dress! … it looks like she’s got a bunch of tiny shrimp stuck on her pocket. LOL
I can’t stand this woman. She gets on my last wick and why does she look like the mum from Family Ties here?
I hate when actors talk about how “drawn to perform” their kids are, and how they’re just such “natural” musicians, comedians, entertainers. You know what? A lot of kids are “natural” performers, and a lot of kids are “drawn” to the idea of becoming an actor or rock star. Most kids don’t get to follow those paths, though, because even if they’re talented, they never get the break they need to support themselves as artists. Gwyneth’s kids, however, will never know what it means to have a Plan B, because if they want to be actors or musicians, their parents’ connections will, at the very least, help them to make a real “go” at following their dreams. Kind of like how Gwyneth didn’t need to finish university because her dad’s connections helped her land a role in a huge movie when she was still a teen, and that one role was all she needed to launch her career.
What I want to tell her is very few people are paid millions of dollars for their job choice (actress). She acts as she pulled herself up by her goop-straps making 10.00 an hour. Please. I wish my profession paid me over a million a job plus perks/connections/publicity et al and my ex-was a popular, super rich (though terrible music making) rock star. But what killed me was seeing her face on the Juice Beauty website as their Creative Beauty Director. I bet that pissed of real Creative Beauty directors who have years of experience on the job and have earned their title. Jesus. I remember a year ago in Goop she said she never could even put her own makeup on. She also brags in the glamour article how her staff of 40! call her princess and the pea cause she is such a fab perfectionist. GO.
There’s nothing wrong with having the good luck to be born to rich, well connected parents who can get your career off to a flying start. There is everything wrong with pretending you didn’t have such help.
Bootstraps narratives always seem to underpin the lie that anyone can achieve in life, whatever their beginnings, and therefore it is pointless and unfair to expect the luckiest to help out the least fortunate. Exceptional people can overcome the most brutal starts, let alone the mediocre – but most people remain fairly close to their own parents’ incomes and lifestyles, give or take.
People with narcissist personality disorder always rewrite their history.