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Gwyneth Paltrow may be performing defenses as a temporary spokesman for astronomers following the current CEO’s ColdPlay concert drama, but the new biography is more interested in how she runs her empire.
“Gwyneth” by Culture and Fashion Journalist Amy Odell, Amy Odell maps Paltrows from Hollywood Nepo Baby to controversial wellness figures. The biography is based on interviews with more than 220 sources, but Paltrow refused to talk about it.
“Gwyneth” (now from Simon & Schuster) covers the life of the star, and includes a “conscious removal” of her relationship with Brad Pitt, her marriage, and Coldplay’s journey to Oscar-winning fame. Perhaps the most fascinating voyeur behind the curtains lies in her career transition to the goop guru.
USA Today reached out to Paltrow representatives for comment.
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If there is one central theme in all this deep diving of Paltrow, it is the actress’s irrelevantness extends farther than her ja egg shenanigans.
When promoting “Emma” in 1997, Paltrow requested a private plane from herself and ten friends. In the Penthouse Suite in Ritz, only friends are allowed, and Mercedes cars chase her and her friends. A plane ride alone costs Miramax $200,000 in dollars today, Odell writes. And when she filmed “Shallow Hull” with Jack Black, her team demanded that her accommodation be far from the other cast and crew.
However, it was Paltrow’s father’s throat cancer that slipped into the gorgeous wellness realm. While Bruce Paltrow denies his health, Odell writes, Gwyneth took charge of her — “I felt I could heal him on behalf of him,” Gwyneth wrote in The Guardian. Around this time she was promoting “shallow hull” (a comedy that itself is not aging), and began to frequently share unfounded comments about her health, such as her liver “doesn’t fall during yoga due to diet, Odell writes.
Around the mid-2000s, she was disillusioned with the film industry and asked producer Charlie Pinski, “Spain… I’m heading down the road again” what she should do next. Her food and home improvement project idea looked like “the next Martha Stewart” to Pinski, but he insisted that she focused on motherhood as her brand, Odell writes. She didn’t give him advice. Branding expert Peter Arnell helped her come up with a name and tweak Goop’s vision.
The biography claims Goop as “sometimes toxic environments.”
Behind the scenes of clean marketing and health promises, employee Odell described Goop as “one of the most challenging working conditions we have ever encountered.” Odell says the employee said “I don’t feel very good in my life.” Paltrow had a “fake and indirect leadership style” that led to anger and resentment.
The close relationships with some employees “blew the line between professionals and individuals,” Odell writes. She cums as a food editor as a private chef, making lunches and sometimes dinner for her and her husband, Brad Falchuk.
Some employees described the office culture as “harmful and chaotic,” Odell wrote. She describes the writer as overworked and underpaid, and is expected to call all the time, with some employees pulling by the side of the road while driving to respond to work messages. Paltrow provided employees with a two-week “goopation” while expecting employees to respond to her message.
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As Goop’s effects swelled, he went further into the swaying wellness trends such as vaginal steaming, bone soup diets, and vaginal ja eggs (in 2018, Goop was fined $145,000 for an unfounded medical claim). Paltrow has seen herself as a crusader on the lesser known women’s health topic, but medical professionals dislike her “vigilante health journalism,” Odell writes. According to an Odell report, “Neith, neither Gwyneth nor Goop’s board nor investors were concerned about these controversies.”
When Condé Nast and Anna Wintour tapped Goop for their magazine partnership in 2017, the deal collapsed after two issues as Paltrow and Goop were not complying with Condé Nast fact-checking standards.
There was also a power struggle over whether Paltrow or Wintour had genuine control over the magazine. Paltrow wanted full control to promote Goop’s products in the magazine, but Condé Nast was afraid to alienate advertisers or compromise integrity.
Odell reports that Wintour and Paltrow’s relationship is “early lovefest,” with media moguls calling Paltrow “baby” at conferences. But Wintour wants to rigorously confirm the story, with Odell writing that Paltrow dismissing the criticism as “patriarchal” and that other outlets ultimately say that “other stores don’t” about women’s health, even if they’re not supported by science.
Expert Odell spoke to “Gwyneth” Riken Goop to the cult.
“Wellness advocates position it as the necessary opposition to Big AG and Big Pharma, conveniently ignoring what they have created: Big Wellness,” writes Odell.
Clare Mulroy is USA Today’s Books Reporter, covering Buzzy releases, chatting with authors and diving into the culture of reading. Find her On Instagramsubscribe every week Book Newsletter Or tell her what you’re reading cmulroy@usatoday.com.
