Her most recent endeavors include trying to be a lifestyle guru, publishing cookbooks and hosting a website called Goop. The recipes are said to be quite unhealthy, with very small portions of almost nothing.
This is not something the average person would be able to afford, but Paltrow posts them in a way as to make it appear that everyone can afford such luxuries. Gwyneth Paltrow is known to be quite full of herself. But that might not even be the most ridiculous statement the incredibly fit celebrity has said.
What I love is inspiring people. I see how hard you work and it makes me feel like I can do that too. Hello my dear ones… if any of you happen to be in Los Angeles at the moment, please come see me tomorrow morning at gooplab at the brentwoodcountrymart! I will be signing books and chillin in our beautiful flagship goop outpost. We now all wanted to be famous so much ourselves that we began to think of movie stars not simply as role models but as competitors.
Our competitors. And that made Paltrow, in effect, seem like a princess-celebrity with an Unfair Advantage. Everything about her that made her a quintessential movie star — her perfectly put together willowy blonde Grace Kelly elan, her dating roster, from Brad Pitt on — became, in a topsy-turvy way, something to look down on with envy.
Who can forget the run-up to her Academy Award win for Shakespeare in Love? It was back in the early days of the relentless, all-consuming, from-December-to-Oscar awards-show juggernaut season, a state of affairs that we now take for granted. But Gwyneth, showered with accolades, found herself doing endless variations on the same acceptance speech, always paying tribute to her late grandfather Buster. By the time she thanked Buster in luminous tears from the Academy stage, the Best Actress award had come to seem like a meticulously rehearsed coronation.
Just one more reason to hate her! She named her first child Apple okay, that was a bit much. She swanned around Spain with Mario Batali. And she started her own Website, goop. Her taste. In food and travel and health and upscale consumer indulgence. Kind of like a personalized In Style with a movie-star imprimatur.
If you look past the backbiting, GOOP is actually a winsomely elegant and inviting site, but to the haters, especially those in the media, it was all too easy to portray as glorified navel-gazing. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later?
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