Gwyneth Paltrow is calling BS on an unauthorized biography about her life which came out this summer.
Asked if she’d read the gossip anthology, “Gwyneth: The Biography,” the actor gave British Vogue a curt and cutting, “Oh, God no.”
Released in July, author Amy Odell’s 448-page tome draws from interviews with 200 sources ― but was researched, written and published with zero involvement from Paltrow herself. Despite its dubious origins, outlets were happy to milk the manuscript for headlines.
While the Oscar winner told Vogue she wasn’t going to dignify the book with a read, her husband, television producer Brad Falchuk, volunteered to skim it and report back.
His review was ruthless, according to Paltrow.
Gwyneth Paltrow, here at the Forbes Power Women’s Summit in September 2024, was brutal as she broke her silence on “Gwyneth: The Biography,” an unauthorized book about her life.
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“So my husband flicked through it, just because I was like: ‘What is in this?’” she revealed. “He said, ‘It’s as if somebody put in a prompt in ChatGPT and said: mine every Daily Mail article and write a biography about Gwyneth Paltrow.’”
For Paltrow, the most frustrating part of the bunk bio was how it minimized her actual accomplishments in favor of tabloid fodder.
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“She totally missed everything, the truth of who I am, what my impact is,” the lifestyle tycoon said of Odell. “[My husband] was like, ‘It’s just bad. It’s really badly written.’ I was like, ‘OK.’ The stuff that I saw in People magazine, and [other outlets that picked it up], it was all rubbish, the things that I supposedly said.”
Paltrow also called the project “sexist,” noting how male moguls’ stories get serious literary treatment while the lives of powerful women are too often reduced to salacious fluff.
“I think it’s very sexist. I was like, ‘OK, hang on a sec. Why do the men get Walter Isaacson and I get this hack?’ You know?” she said, referring to the esteemed author whose work includes deep-dives on Apple visionary, Steve Jobs, and the contentious tech titan, Elon Musk.