Here are some photos of Gwyneth Paltrow yesterday in NYC, in and around the Good Morning America studio, where she filmed a segment. What’s great about the interview – and props to GMA – is that it’s not just “OMG, Gwyneth looks amazing and she can cook, how charming”. The interviewer asks Goop some direct questions about whether or not Gwyneth is starving her kids, whether Gwyneth has eliminated everything from her diet permanently and whether it really costs $300 a day to eat like Goop. She also had some harsh words for book critics who have almost universally thrown shade at Lady Goop. Here’s the interview:
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow has taken aim at critics slamming her new cookbook for her alleged costly recipes, insisting sensational bloggers are spreading rumors just to get attention.
The Oscar winner’s latest culinary guide, “It’s All Good,” which was released earlier this month, has been panned by reviewers for offering menu ideas that include pricey ingredients such as duck eggs and Manuka honey.
One critic at Yahoo.com estimated it would cost around $300 a day to feed a family based on a selection of Paltrow’s recipes, but on Wednesday Paltrow defended her book during an appearance on “Good Morning America,” where she demonstrated how to cook up some of her favorite dishes.
She said, “That is insane. I mean this meal here is like $2 a person so I don’t know where they’re getting (that from). I say I like honey, like raw honey, and a jar is $25, but it lasts for two years. So they were just being sensationalist. There is a lot of inches of column that people need to fill and a lot of times they just try to get attention and say things that aren’t true, unfortunately.”
And the mom-of-two insists people can always find alternatives to keep the cost down: “For example, I like to use organic chicken, but it’s more expensive – you don’t have to.”
[From SF Gate]
If you actually watch the video (and I would suggest watching the first 2 minutes at least), you can see Gwyneth physically WINCE when she mentions how the peasants can eat non-organic food and when she’s defending her cookbook against the tide of negative press. It’s pretty funny. This is what you get, Gwyneth, when you climb off your pedestal to interact with the peasantry. Nothing but shade, girl. She was expecting thanks from a grateful nation, and all she got was shade.
What I find weird is that most of the shade thrown at Gwyneth is because people are simply reacting to the crazy sh-t she says. Like, she talks about not feeding her kids carbs at all and just deciding one day (on the advice of the one nutritionist who told her what she wanted to hear) that she and her kids needed to be on this crazy “elimination diet”. And then when people reacted with horror, her new story is that we overreacted and we’re just making things up, and of course her children eat Oreos and such. Gwyneth went on Dr. Oz yesterday too and she flat-out changed her story completely! And so it’s our fault when we report on what she originally said?
Oh, and here are some images from Gwyneth’s new Max Factor campaign. CENTER PART. Ugh.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
Special thanks Cele Bitch
