{"id":125329,"date":"2025-10-16T07:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T07:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/125329\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T07:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T07:24:14","slug":"there-needs-to-be-a-book-on-conscious-uncoupling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/125329\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There needs to be a book on conscious uncoupling\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

At first it seemed that Gwyneth Paltrow had ignored the recent unflattering account of her altogether. When Amy Odell published Gwyneth: The Biography, in July, it was revealed as an unflinching (and unauthorised) bombshell of a book on the Goop CEO and A-list actress and became an instant New York Times bestseller.<\/p>\n

Odell, who said she\u2019d interviewed over 220 sources over three years, including Paltrow\u2019s current and former friends and colleagues, had included some zingers about her. <\/p>\n

She reported that her car parking space at work said \u201cReserved for G-spot\u201d; that Goop was chaotic and Paltrow would scold her underlings for replying to her emails with the words \u201con it\u201d (a waste of her time \u2014 she simply assumed they were \u201con it\u201d); that the Goop food editors were roped in to help out of hours around Paltrow\u2019s house, cooking her dinner under the guise of \u201crecipe testing\u201d. And that her magnanimous \u201cconscious uncoupling\u201d privately shocked Paltrow\u2019s old friends.<\/p>\n

\"Gwyneth<\/p>\n

PHOTOGRAPHS BY VENETIA SCOTT. STYLING BY STELLA GREENSPAN<\/p>\n

Now it seems Paltrow is dreaming up a new, better book of her own. She wants to write it on conscious uncoupling. \u201cI cannot tell you how many people come up to me and thank me for that, and for helping to create that template. I feel like there needs to be a book, because it was real trial and error \u2026 We f***ed a lot of things up and then we got a lot of things right.\u201d Strap in for another bestseller.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Gwyneth Paltrow: \u2018I have so many nicknames: Gunny, Gwinny, Goo-Goo. Everyone at work calls me GP\u2019<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

As for her thoughts on Odell\u2019s opus, for months she\u2019d been keeping a dignified silence. Had Paltrow, the ultimate Hollywood royalty \u2014 father a director\/producer, mother an award-winning actress, godfather Steven Spielberg \u2014 adopted a \u201cdon\u2019t complain, don\u2019t explain\u201d royal maxim? Turns out not. <\/p>\n

She was just waiting for British Vogue<\/a> to pitch up at her house in the Hamptons. They were there for her November cover interview, to ask about her return to acting, Pepper Potts aside, after a long break, with a role in Marty Supreme, a forthcoming cosy tennis comedy. <\/p>\n

Instead, sitting cross-legged on a magnolia sofa and \u201cfloating on a cloud of good taste\u201d, Paltrow served up more of an icy thriller. In her \u201chypnotically flat, upscale American tone\u201d, she described Odell\u2019s book as written with the help of \u201cChatGPT\u201d, \u201cjust bad\u201d and \u201creally badly written\u201d. She shrugged more than once. \u201cBoring,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Had she even read the book, Vogue asked. \u201cOh God no,\u201d she said. Still, her husband, Brad Falchuk, had \u201cflicked\u201d through it (deliciously dismissive, that). They decided that Odell had \u201cmissed everything, the truth of who I am, what my impact is\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u2022 We have reached peak nepo-baby nonsense \u2014 and it has to stop<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Worse still, \u201cI think it\u2019s very sexist. I was, like, \u2018OK, hang on a sec. Why do the men get Walter Isaacson [Elon Musk\u2019s biographer] and I get this hack?\u2019 You know?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Ouch. What would Odell make of this take-down? The response was short and delivered, like all good modern feuds, via the medium of social media. Odell\u2019s Instagram Stories has a post of the Vogue cover with the words \u201cHere we go with the Oscar campaign\u201d. Surely not suggesting that Paltrow is attention-seeking?<\/p>\n

Odell\u2019s last book made Anna Wintour the subject, and for it Wintour reportedly gamely gave her biographer some access. Paltrow gave none. Still, the critics liked it. But for Paltrow it was the portrait of Goop that rankled the most. \u201cThat bothers me. \u2018Oh, Goop has a toxic culture.\u2019 That drives me insane because we have never had that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

If anything, she insisted, she was too soft. \u201cGranted we\u2019ve had a couple of toxic people and, because of my fear of confrontation, maybe I didn\u2019t deal with it quickly enough. That does cascade down and I totally take responsibility for that. But we are such a good culture. We are,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Interview by Giles Hattersley. Styling by Stella Greenspan. Photographs by Venetia Scott<\/b>. See the full feature in the November issue of British <\/b>Vogue<\/b>, available via digital download and on newsstands from Tuesday 21st October.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At first it seemed that Gwyneth Paltrow had ignored the recent unflattering account of her altogether. When Amy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[359,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-125329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}