Er, what’s going on with the styling for Gwyneth Paltrow’s Marie Claire cover shoot? At first I thought there was an eyebrow issue, but as I’m really examining the photos, I think it might be a lipstick issue? Everything on her face is just too all-one-color. She looks washed-out. She needs, like, a smoky eye and some dark lipstick or something. Anyway, I actually had a preview of this Marie Claire story on Friday – Page Six had early excerpts and the cover hadn’t been released yet, so there you go. Now Marie Claire has released more quotes and several images – go here to see MC’s package. Some highlights from Goop’s interview:
Working with her friend Ewan McGregor on Mortdecai: “It was surreal,” Paltrow says about the double-decade time lapse since working on ‘Emma’. She and McGregor fell easily into reminiscing about that shoot and how they would bum cigarettes from the driver on rides out to the farm where they practiced riding horses and driving traps. “All three of us would be chain-smoking out the window,” recalls Paltrow. “The driver was awesome.” After work, they would hang out in small country-house hotels, drinking and smoking. “You know, we were kids.”
On her costars over the years: “Whether it’s Morgan Freeman [1995’s Se7en] at the beginning of my career or Johnny Depp in my last movie [this month’s Mortdecai], I feel on-my-knees gratitude for being considered a good enough actor to work with actors of that caliber.”
On her current relationship with Chris Martin: “We’ve worked really f–king hard to get to [this] point. But we’re very, very close, and it’s so nice. I feel like it’s, in a way, the relationship we were meant to have.”
On entrepreneurship: “I know what I want to do, and I’m going to do it. I don’t care so much about the men, but I wish that women were slightly more understanding of other women. A lot of women reporters try to pit me against other women doing entrepreneurial things. There’s room for everybody.”
On productivity: “I’m in meetings with investment bankers, VC firms, private equity firms—you name it, across the board, men. Women in 30 minutes can get more accomplished than men in two hours.”
On raising children: “I think we are all genuinely doing our best, it’s hard to have children and a career, and all some women seem to do is judge other women’s choices. I find that demoralizing and unhelpful. Where is the wisdom coming out of this situation? I don’t see where this is getting us anywhere in terms of a cultural discussion.”
Whether Gwyneth is calling herself a self-made woman or talking about “judging other women’s choices,” it really feels like Gwyneth is going through a stage where she is really lacking in any kind of self-awareness. Like, she doesn’t even realize how privileged she is. She doesn’t even realize that she’s spent a decade judging other women for their life choices. She doesn’t even seem to “get” that she and Martha Stewart are actually BOTH engaging in a two-sided war. Or is this all some kind of game for Gwyneth? Is she actually a judgmental elitist engaging in petty feuds right and left, but she just thinks the peasants are too stupid to realize it, so she can say whatever she wants and people will just eat it up?
Photos courtesy of Jan Welters/Marie Claire.
“it really feels like Gwyneth is going through a stage where she is really lacking in any kind of self-awareness.”
Hate to break it to you, but I’m pretty sure it’s not a stage.
Unless by Stage we mean Several Decades worth of time
She has a Serious terminal case of Verbal Diarrhea
Yes, it’s more like an era of asshattery.
And has nothing to do with “women reporters.” Nearly everyone finds her pretentious, insufferable and overly smug. Nothing to do with the gender of the person who holds this opinion. Paltrow is just the worst.
Goopy should shut up. Forever.
On productivity: “I’m in meetings with investment bankers, VC firms, private equity firms—you name it, across the board, men. Women in 30 minutes can get more accomplished than men in two hours.
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^^ It’s blanket general statements like these, that ensure her big foot never leaves her mouth.
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On raising children: “I think we are all genuinely doing our best, it’s hard to have children and a career, and all some women seem to do is judge other women’s choices. I find that demoralizing and unhelpful. Where is the wisdom coming out of this situation? I don’t see where this is getting us anywhere in terms of a cultural discussion.”
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^^ Sure. We’ll just totally pretend amnesia about your recent meangirls “interview,” of Chelsea Handler as she was promoting her ‘book,’ (I use the term loosely). Chelsea again, snidely went in on Angelina (didn’t name her, but everyone in the audience knew of who she was speaking) and equally culpable Fishyth Paltrowich fed her the scripted question to make sure she got her ordered beat down on Angie in (and by “ordered” I mean, they both share the same Power PR flack Stephen Huvane, also Aniston’s publicist so it was planned all the way….paltrow’s even reading from an effing cue card, lol). Go to the 42 minute mark here: http://youtu.be/q_VAeasE-uU and attack several women during the course of this meangirl ish Fest that ends up somehow being inexplicably a snoozefest considering. But this set up Paltrow does, trying to draw the Angelina attack out, is downright sickening. But makes sense when you consider they’re both encouraged to do it by their gross sleazy publicist.
I hate to break it to GP but she manages to pit herself against other women all by herself…no help needed…
Is that last pic her audition for one of those bloated tummy commercials? You know the ones where the chicks are bloated but have six packs (or rib packs). Lol
She has a gross belly button. It needs to be hidden.
It’s her boobs that throw it off for me….they don’t look like they have any kind of support.
It’s almost like they’re being pitted against each other.
“Busted out” a guffaw on that one.
Also “A lot of women reporters” isn’t sexist AT ALL.
I know, right? She’s seven shades of bland with a sexist cherry on top.
It’s never someone’s gender that determines their efficiency. That’s why even as woman, I feel uncomfortable when another woman explains how we can get things done faster (or slower) than men. It doesn’t feel liberating, but puts me once again in a box of pre-conceptions.
Agreed!
Yes! She actually sounds kind of sexist to me.
Yes! How phony and inauthentic to rely on stereotypes, blame half the population and scold everyone else.
Women reporters…not men. Remember last week when she said she said stupid stuff because she’s been famous for so long?
I agree, no one needs to feel better about themselves by stepping on someone else.
This is the point, my dear Goopy, where you just own it.
You’ve gone past the point of credibility and now exist in an extraordinary realm of narcissism.
Just accept and then revel in it.
Dammit wallow around in it. Rub it into your pores.
Shout it from the rooftops, love.
You are an elitist twat bubble. Put it on your damn business card.
P.S. My brain is ashamed of being a brain now…thanks to you Goop.
I thought we were talking to the spleen??
Sorry. My medulla oblongata got McBongohey stoned and started yelling at Goop.
My parts is all turnt this morning.
I’ll go with judgmental elitist engaging in petty feuds right and left but thinks the peasants are too stupid to realize it for 200, Alex.
A person does not attain what she has by opening doors for others, smiling sweetly, and murmuring “After you”.
You got that right. Ask Winona.
Female Mid life crisis?! WHOA! That pose, shorts on pants, wrinkly foldy ab and that face, is she trying to pee while having UTI? I might have nightmares about this tonight. Martha…. help…….
That last picture really is some “thinspiration”-sh*t.
Both goop and sienna remind me of Kelly ripa this morning.
I loved her in Emma, thought she was great in it. I wonder why…
However Emma does learn some self awareness in the end.
Emma is a heroine loved throughout the centuries. Gwyneth is an a* * who no one thinks about until she opens her pretentious mouth.
I’m just here for the commentary *sits with bowl of popcorn*
I know what you mean!!
Does she honestly believe she deserves a round of “You go girl! ” for thinking she’s a deity and we’re just well trained circus monkeys?
Is it wrong of me to be bored silly by Gwennie? I just don’t think she understands why people often find her offensive. I don’t think she ever will. So I just let it go.
Your right on cue with the rest of civilization. She’s dumber than a box of hair.
She’s boring in literally every way imaginable. The only thing that keeps people reading about her is what a fool she makes of herself all the time.
this.
Well, its fun! Her lack of awareness, although she tries so hard, makes me smile. Uh…that might make me a bad person. But…smiles!
That second picture — lol — the world’s biggest camel toe? And honestly the last person I want to hear from about feminism is GOOPY.
I hate that anyone gives a flying f******k what a movie actress has to say about anything other than being a movie actress. Huge eyeroll.
Sadly this monochromatic face look is being touted as one of the big new makeup trends for 2015. I’m already pasty has hell, I don’t need to add to it.
She looks exactly like that orangey leathery bleach blonde strange looking little trainer she has Tracey Anderson…are they getting tag team plastic surgery??! ,
Uhm… I care about the men not being understanding of women. I kind of think that’s a big issue.
Gossip blogs and their readers don’t like to be called out I see?
Although it is stupid saying women are more efficient then men just because
Ugh, go away!! This is what happens when you aren’t genuine. It’s extremely obvious. She needs to just stop.
Judgmental elitist who picks petty feuds and thinks the peasants are too stupid to get it. This exactly. I have ALWAYS gotten this from her. I think she knows exactly how she comes off, and likely enjoys patronizing the unwashed masses because it makes her feel better and smarter than them. Money is both her lance and her shield.
She’s always been lacking in self-awareness. I think what’s happening now is that she’s trying to use some of the recent social discussions about feminism and celebrity to defend herself, and that she’s not doing it very well.
goop’s chicken necking, open-mouth cover posture is atrocious. and she should have placed her (small) bolt-ons higher.
i find it delightful she is now more famous for inciting criticism and mockery than anything else.
her career… laughable.
as for her not understanding how the negativity she attracts is 100% justifiable (thanks to her endless judgement re: everything, constant preaching, and chronic reminders of how phenomenal she is in every way), well, what can be expected from a talentless hack with an iq of a rock?
But she just makes it too easy. I mean, that’s why people even bother writing about her nowadays. It’s not as if she’s done an interesting film in the last 200 years.
Not exact words but the same sentiment, so why is she blaming journalists, especially female ones:
“I’ve got female friends now, since I’m not such a threat as I was when I was a 26 year old with an Oscar.” (UGH!)
“I’m glad she thinks we’re competition.” On Martha Stewart laughing at her and her website. (Desperate)
Her long blog post on schadenfreude at seen Winona Ryder get arrested for shoplifting. She went on about frenemies like a high school girl but with the self-importance of a world-leading philosopher. Gosh her life is a petty one.
She’s seems so removed from reality. I really think she needs to take a tour of West Africa, where there’s widespread child famine and disease.
I wish she’d go back to being an unapologetic elitist.
Trying to appeal to the peasants (that she loathes) isn’t doing her any good.
She makes even my third eye roll.