There is no clear starting point for the public's generalized hatred of actress Gwyneth Paltrow, although some believe her 1999 Oscar acceptance speech may have been just that. Somehow, the sincerity of her sob provoked the exact opposite response one would expect to receive in a sincere moment, with sincere emotion. Since then, Paltrow has always considered herself a snob, though she hasn't exactly reversed that perception. From her constant decline in fame to her endless advocacy for the high life, if becomes more disgusting with every vision she induces. That's what makes Paltrow so hated in Hollywood.
Her enviable Hollywood millionaire boyfriend
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Just as her movie career began to take off, Paltrow started dating Brad Pitt. It was 1994, and Pitt's career had already taken off with leading roles in "Dracula" (1994) and "Legends of the Fall" (1994). The two met on Se7en (1995) and eventually became engaged, but the romance didn't last. In an interview with "Diane Sawyer," Paltrow explained, "I had something inside of me that was really frustrating me, and I felt really responsible for it, and like I was the architect of my own pain. ...... I just made a mess of it." It's a concept that would never have been understood at a time when most women would have given up the chance of Pitt for limbs.
Then she turned to Ben Affleck, who had just won an Oscar for Good Will Hunting (1997). Not only does she throw him under the bus on a date, but she also says his perfect woman would be "any stripper in Scores," but then he tells him the same thing, telling Diane Sawyer, "I just think we have a very different value system ". Both of these statements could be taken to mean that Paltrow thinks he's better than Affleck.
Patlow also dated actors Scott Speedman and Luke Wilson and eventually married Coldplay frontman Chris Martin. Paltrow admits to having such a bland feeling that if it were a snack, it would be a rice cake.
She always puts her foot in her mouth
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One of the Internet's favorite things is compiling lists (Guilty!) that have followed the ridiculous things Paltrow says in interviews for years. Apparently, when a reporter hits play on the VCR, Paltrow automatically switches to some sort of super-power mode. One of the most comprehensive is Thought Catalog's "45 Creepy Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes That'll Make You Want to Punch Anything," which includes gems like "Beautiful Fade Away" and "I Just Turned 29, So I Might Not Have" from a 2001 interview with Paltrow. No" from a 2001 interview with the New York rock band (via ABC News), and "I'd rather smoke than eat cheese from a tin can," from a 2012 interview with Jonathan Ross.
The quote that sums up Paltrow's relentless pretentiousness, perhaps the best, is a clip from a 2009 interview in the U.K. (via the "New York Post"). "I am who I am, and I can't pretend to be someone who makes $25,000 a year," Paltrow says in a speech to "haters," which is not only amazing, but a terrifying way to change people's minds. Already think you're a snob. It's like the oil company BP calling themselves environmentalists for cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico. There's a bit of self-awareness going on for a long time, and Paltrow doesn't seem to have any at all.
Her nasty friendship with Beyonce
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Shutting off all the infamous Paltrow name-drops, her constant references to Beyonce and Jay Z are probably the most offensive.Buzzfeed took some time to synthesize Bey and G's friendship, which reportedly led to them getting drunk backstage at a Jay Z concert in 2006. up. From there, sitting together at award shows, celebrating birthdays on yachts, complimenting each other in public, and calling each other perfect all the time. And it's not just Paltrow and Beyonc who have become BFFs. gwyneth told the sun their marriage mirrors each other. "They balance each other out, and Chris and I are like Jay and Beyonce: two paranoid ironists and two calm people," she said, anyway.
There was a time when being friends with Paltrow might have made the couple uncomfortable. In 2012, for example, she apparently felt that her friendship with Jay and Bey almost gave her an "n-word pass," causing her to tweet "Ni ** as in the real dream world (dream) beehigh in Paris." Paltrow referenced the Jay Z and Kanye West song of the same name, but no one knew that, especially not the Internet. What's more, in the Twitter post, the African-American gentleman wasn't Kanye West or Jay Z. Whoops. the backlash was fierce, and a few days after trying to defend himself, the damage was done. They're still friends, but if we had to guess, Paltrow may have just hummed or quietly danced to a friend's music instead of singing. If not, she must consider it.
Her annual Goop Holiday Gift Guide
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In 2008, Winneth Paltrow started GOOP, her newsletter filled with unsolicited life advice that would be hard to put into practice for anyone who isn't Oprah. It has evolved into a full-fledged "lifestyle site," which describes itself as "a place where readers can shop, eat, and stay from a trusted friend rather than an anonymous, crowdsourced recommendation engine." What are these tips, you ask? "What are these recommendations, you ask? Well, if you're looking for a "quick getaway," Goop suggests checking out Blantyre, a replica of a Scottish castle in The Berkshires, Massachusetts, which lists prices during the "holiday season " up to $2,000 per night to stay in an "igloo." Or maybe you're in the market for back-to-school clothes for your kids. Forget Walmart, because Goop is pairing this $355 Bonpoint cashmere sweater with leggings and $130 sneakers.
It's all mild compared to the annual Goop holiday gift guide. Every year when it starts, the Internet logs on with the hearty excitement of kids running around the tree on Christmas morning as dreams dance obnoxiously in their heads. And they have good reason to. the 2016 guide recommends products like $120 toothpaste and an $8,300 portable yurt. The guide is more like a list of storage units for Saudi princes than anything any reasonable person could afford. Seriously, if someone buys you a $500 umbrella and doesn't pay you that much, we think you're legally justified and it means nothing when you beat them to it.
Also, GOOP's time was burned by NASA
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As we just mentioned, Paltrow's GOOP newsletter has evolved into a full-fledged lifestyle destination, known for its excellent product recommendations. But the controversy isn't always just about price. For example, GOOP has suffered a firestorm after promoting the insertion of the Jade Egg in the vagina, with supposed benefits ranging from improving sex life to creating "kidney strength". Except that real doctors, such as gynecologist Jen Gunter, have torn down these claims, even writing, "I read the GOOP post, and all I can tell you is that it's the biggest load of garbage I've ever read since the vaginal vapor scene."
So when GOOP started promoting the Body Vibes sticker, Gizmodo claimed to use "NASA spacesuit material" to "rebalance the energy frequencies in our bodies," and the results were like jade eggs. Two different NASA reps told Gizmodo that the claim has absolutely no merit, bluntly categorizing it as "a bunch of BS."
To their credit, Body Vibes pulled the NASA-related claim, saying it was their "engineers who were misled by the distributor about the material in question."
GOOP also filed the claim from their website, but included the following in their backtracking statement: "Our content is designed to emphasize unique products and services, find enlightened alternatives, and encourage dialogue. In other words, like their founders, they talk about GOOP whether people love or hate it, and at the end of the day, that's good for GOOP.
She compared herself to an "average woman."
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If you can point to any of us who like to be described as "average," we'll tell you what some of us think. "Shallow Hal" (2001) is a great movie. That's not going to happen, because those people don't exist. In an interview with CNN Money, Paltrow said she's "very close to the average woman" who might hear the spacey reaction. Well, that's a little unfair, since it was actually interviewer Cristina Alesci who used the term "average woman" in her question, but after a few minutes of being in the company of ordinary people, Paltrow described herself as "an actress, a mom, an entrepreneur," primarily.
So, if we're thinking about it, in Paltrow's mind, being the CEO of a lifestyle brand is like a low-paying office job, with little to no rent, and never paying off your student loans, a program that is a personal life-and-death evening and weekend bartending gig that might be enough to pay for a modest business. that might be enough to pay for a modest vacation? Yes, it's a live comparison of life experiences, and we're all just assholes for misinterpreting it.
Pretentious Parental Choices
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Patlow has attracted a lot of attention to her seemingly arrogant parental choices, which she likes to casually mention as if they're standard operating procedure for any parent. For example, in an interview with InStyle (which she did via the Daily Mail), she mentioned how her daughter Apple Blythe Alison is "cross" with her because she only lets her and her brother Moses Bruce Anthony "watch TV in French or Spanish," and added: "I'm French or Spanish." , and added: I'm in France and I go to Beaumarchais to buy all their comics. "Then, naturally, we all do. Duh.
That's the diet. When it comes to food, Paltrow is the absolute queen of culinary references that might make top chefs scratch their heads. She supports a longevity diet, suggests keeping $15 bamboo matcha whisks in the kitchen to kick up the traditional Japanese matcha, and even put her kids on a "low-carb, gluten-free diet," which she admits leaves them with "specific hunger attached to avoiding carbs." Yes, we believe there is another term for hunger. For God's sake, give those kids pancakes.
As if all that wasn't enough, Paltrow has now moved into the realm of publicly embarrassing her adolescent daughter, suggesting that many of InStyle's apple friends are "precocious" in everything "because of endocrine disrupting hormones". For someone who is completely obsessed with her health, Paltrow seems to have overlooked her now almost certain fate of having her daughter attacked by handmade Nepalese palm leaves cut from the traditional wood of a thousand-year-old banyan tree.
"Conscious decoupling"
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When Paltrow and Martin announced their separation in 2014, they did it on Goop, which, according to Paltrow, was back when he was still "very small and very personal." Apparently, there were a lot more readers than she thought, because since the deleted notification actually crashed the site, it's been assumed that it almost immediately turned viral in more of a feel-good way than a good one.
Twitter users mercilessly mocked them in countless ways for that phrase "conscious decoupling," including the comic strip Louis Virtel, who chirped "Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin are getting divorced on the grounds of 'unbearable similarities. intolerable similarities.'" The Common English Foundation declared it the "worst phrase of 2014," a word that even caused a stir among psychiatrists living in Costa Rica on remote spa and yoga retreats who allegedly created it, reports The New York Times." People who run this vacation really bill it as a place where you can come to get away from it all," the suddenly infamous writer said, "so they make me look like the hallway: 'What are you doing? "
In hindsight, Paltrow repeatedly said she regretted the unintended effects of the divorce vocabulary. In an interview with Howard Stern (via ABC News), she admitted that by not giving context, she "made a mistake." Yes, because any explanation would make it sound like she didn't want to say "divorce" in pedestrian terms at all. Maybe there's a French cartoon or a Moroccan sonnet that explains to Paltrow that she's not fooling anyone with her high-profile analysis. In other words, we see you, boo.
Her garbage says America
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If there's one thing we learned from the 2016 U.S. presidential election, it's that Americans want America to be good again, no matter what. That ambiguity has been interpreted in all sorts of ways, from coming back to work to dealing with immigration, but what everyone can agree on is that no one else will when Paltrow goes abroad and starts talking.
Her first apparent smear of the U.S. came in an interview with the Portuguese daily Notario News (via NBC New York), where she claimed to have said, "I like the British way of life, it's not capitalistic like in the U.S. People don't talk about work and money, they talk about interesting things at dinner, I like living here because I don't fit in with the bad side of American psychology, the British are smarter and more civilized than Americans. "Paltrow later told people that it was a misunderstanding because of a mistranslation. We think this may be because the Rosetta Stone Goop version is not available in other languages as 'handmade flax porridge'.
Her ridiculous book
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While she was already annoyed by the existence of the internet, famous friendships, and dubious parenting choices, Paltrow clearly felt more than a little disgusted with the spread of the word, so she ventured into the world of print. She chose to write about food, because if you like to draw everyone in the world to you, the natural selection of subject matter would be a universal ****enjoyable experience, just like eating. She wasn't disappointed. In her cookbook, My Father's Daughter, which is a tribute to her late father, who she describes as a "supreme gourmet", the actress explains how to not only prepare healthy and delicious food, but also how to entertain while serving. All you need are some good ingredients, a few simple recipes, maybe some jokes, or the topic of an "autopsy" at Nora Ephron's house," she wrote. See? Think of all the times you've had dinner at Nora Ephron's! Very simple!
In her follow-up cookbook, touting "Delicious Weekday Recipes," she titled it "The Super Busy Home Cook," an all-too-easy Pattillo suggestion for taking the kids to practice after they go to school and any other errands that need to be squeezed in before running home. "Shouldn't have a problem, such as the cassis berries with cashew cream that she claims takes "over two hours to prepare". There's also a hilarious food-counter list, which suggests normal, busy people keeping Bon fish fillets, sambal oelek and a Middle Eastern spice called Za'atar on hand at all times. We made sure these were all available at a local grocery store, and not as a result of having an assistant visit several specialty stores and farmers markets, because honestly, she was totally helpful.
How can she turn it around
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First, Paltrow needs to get rid of Goop. despite her proclamation at the 2016 Sage Summit (via "Us Weekly") that "in order to build the brand that I want to build brand that has limited scalability if connected to it" "My dream is that one day no one will remember that I had anything to do with it." That's not going to happen.Goop is always synonymous with Paltrow's perceived snobbery. She'd need the whole site offline, but first print every page and burn it in a giant bonfire in the middle of Times Square on New Year's Eve. That would be a healthy start. Second, the actress would need to film a series of apology videos at a different fast food restaurant every day for two weeks. In the clips, not only does she have to eat the food, but she also has to travel on Bono's skis or paddle on Jay Z's kayak.
Third, and this is the most important one, Paltrow needs to acknowledge that growing up with a family in the entertainment industry, in which her successful mother, Blythe Denny, and godfather, Steven Spielberg, automatically puts her in the rare position of being the one being that 99.9999 percent of humans can't survive with ...... Related. It's not her fault. It is what it is, but from this lofty position, she shouldn't have to pretend that her chic, impractical diet, unaffordable luxury preferences and elitist worldview are commonplace. Paltrow is already an actress Mariah Carey, she just needs to embrace it.