Gwyneth Paltrow covers the new issue of Red, and she and her “Goop team” (it takes a “team”?) guest-edited this issue too. Which means that this is one of the better photoshoots I’ve seen with Gwyneth in a while. I mean, the photos are still annoying me (why does she have to be staring into the distance with that gassy look on her face?!), but her hair looks much better here than it usually does. As for Goop’s interview… well, Dame Gwyneth deigns to curse like a peasant! *clutches Goop pearls* Some highlights from her interview:
Goop doesn’t give a f—k: “The older I get, I realize it doesn’t matter what people who don’t know you think. It doesn’t matter. You’re wasting your energy. It’s like, if your partner comes to you – or your best friend – and says, ‘Listen, I want to talk about something you did that hurt me, or I think you could improve,’ sit down and listen to what they have to say. But some friend of so-and–sos – it’s like, who gives a s—? And for me, obviously, I have it on a very large, global scale. I don’t have it in the village gossip way; but it’s the same thing. That’s why I really don’t read anything. Because if it’s important, it filters down to me.”
Goop does not like women who judge other women: “Nobody else can tell [a woman] how many hours a week she needs to devote to this, that or the other … F— what anybody else says … It doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks. That’s what we’ve got to let go of. That idea of ‘Oh god, if I don’t show up to this concert, all the other mums are going to think I’m terrible.’ Well, so f—ing what.”
Working motherhood: ” When I’m with my kids, I give them everything I have. And when I’m not, I give whatever I’m doing everything I have. That’s my work/life balance. I’ve made it work for me, but it doesn’t matter what my specific thing is … It doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks. It matters what you think of yourself. And what your children think … So if anyone is going to ask my advice, I’d say, do what is right for you, and don’t give a s— what anyone else thinks.”
The idea of having more kids: “I’m feeling at such a comfortable point in my life right now, like I’m starting another chapter. Like today I was sitting in the bathroom with Moses, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, I’m so glad he can wipe his own ass.’ I’m so glad I don’t have to do that anymore. I don’t know if I could go all the way back.”
She’ll move back to London after living in LA for a few years: “I don’t want [Apple and Moses] to be teenagers in LA. No way. I’m looking at this like two years, three years tops, then we will go back. It’s part of my parenting philosophy that children should get the opportunity to reinvent themselves at a few points in their childhood to see where their strengths and weaknesses lie and to experience living in different cultures … It’s an experiment. We’ll see.”
Whether she’s the next Oprah: “[Do I see myself as ] the next Oprah? No, not the next Oprah, but I do think the idea is to grow Goop in a number of ways… My dream would be to have somewhere like [a spa]. A center where you could go and have the best people, and detox and reboot and start afresh. I’d love to get to that point one day.”
[From Red via People]
Oh, Dame Gwyneth was in quite a bad mood when she gave this interview. What’s that, Goop? It’s super-hard to pretend that you’re perfect at everything and that your farts smell like orchids? It’s fine. I actually prefer this version of Gwyneth because A) I think this is closer to who she really is, an f-bomb-soaked peasant and B) because I like my Goop a little rough-and-tumble. Now, does Gwyneth really give a s—t about what people say about her? Of course she does. She wouldn’t be this irritated if she didn’t give a s—t. She’s just used to people kissing her ass and talking about how amazing she is, and she really doesn’t know how to handle herself when people start trolling her, mocking her or criticizing some of the legitimately crazy things she says.
Photos courtesy of Red UK.
Thanks to Cele Bitchy