Ugh, I think I speak for most people when I say I have an overpowering dislike for Gwyneth Paltrow’s self-righteous yammering. She’s a fine actress — or she was at one point — but whenever I see some story about her opening her trap about how you, too, can emulate her perfect life if only you’d just try harder, I get grouchier than Rosie O’Donnell with PMS.
So she just sent out an email to readers of GOOP.com, a website of her tips for a healthier and happier life (which, by the by, she hasn’t updated since it launched more than a month ago).
HuffPo has the full missive — I’m not going to repost it here because you probably have other things to do today — but two of the tips are daily 12-hour fasts and avoiding “white foods,” such as anything made with flour, sugar, or milk.
Extreme, right? So extreme that even Gwyneth herself doesn’t adhere to it:
Gwyneth Paltrow makes being svelte look easy, but the actress tells Oprah Winfrey that she finds it nearly impossible to stick to a diet.
“I just cannot diet,” Paltrow, 35, says on The Oprah Winfrey show airing Wednesday. “I think maybe it’s the idea that you can’t have something … I just can’t do it.”
But we should, right? Way to set the bar impossibly high, Gwyn.
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People like Gwenyth who apparently have a burning need to tell everyone how extremely happy & healthy they are, usually aren’t.
BTW, I’m feeling very angry & upset about alll this.
isn’t a daily 12 hour fast called anorexia?
Also fun to see her admit that she doesn’t have the discipline and fortitude to deny herself of anything that she wants, heheh.
Yeah, she can stay in England.
No I think it’s called sleeping.
“Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, another romantic comedy? You know. You see her in something like Walk the Line (2005) and think, “God, you’re so great!” And then you think, “Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?” But of course, it’s for money and status. I just think, “Wouldn’t it be great if all of those movies people went to see were about real women?”
This from a woman who was in Shallow Hal and View from the Top
I have only question for Princess Gwyneth:
Do. You. Smoke?
This being said, compared to many divas out there, she’s quite lean on bull$h!t.
It has been said that people would rather change their religion than their eating habits. Giving up white flour, sugar and dairy is not that extreme in my view. What’s the fuss about?
pastafarian and kg- its called cocaine. Its interesting that she mentioned white foods. I’m convinced this woman is a junkie.
By giving up “white foods” does Gwen mean milk, rice, and flour
or Starbucks coffee, grocery store sushi, and Whole Foods granola?
pinotnoir:
It’s one thing to say, “I’ve given up white foods and I feel great. Here are the benefits…..”
as opposed to
“If you want to be healthy, you should do this. I can’t seem to make myself do it but I know what’s best for the rest of the rest of you.”
Queenbee – you’re right, she does sound sanctimonious. What a pity, she gives us healthy eaters a bad reputation.
I don’t like Gwenyth Paltrow I never knew what anyone saw in her and she can stay wherever she is. France? Poland? I don’t care.
But “cutting out the whites” is a pretty fast way to lose weight. Just don’t eat anything white.
Ug, this self-important anemic bitch can bite my butt. She looks like a scarecrow and I hate her stupid face. Whatever she’s doing, I’m doing the opposite.
I wonder if there’s a diet she can stick to that will keep her mouth shut.
Every time I try to like her, she goes and does something self righteous, hypocritical, or eye rollingly stupid. If her life is so perfect, why does she feel this burning need to talk about it all the time? I agree with the person who said she’s probably not a happy person.
I like her newsletter. If you actually read it in its entirety you’ll see that the diet advice you posted wasn’t written by her but by Dr. Christian Renna. The newsletter gathers guidelines from various sources she has found interesting and helpful, and they’re explained as suggestions and not hard-and-fast rules. It’s nothing different than what you’d read in any women’s lifestyle magazine.
Ugh, I just watched Iron Man last night too and was starting to thaw on her a little.
Then I wake up to this! Bah! That being said, I hope she isn’t too unhappy, or finds a way to get happy. It likely would involve sugar though.
If it’s so great why tell everyone about it. Surely you would keep it to yourself? Oh yeah, to make money, silly me…
Rosie O’Donnell isn’t a woman, she doesn’t get PMS. She’s just a pig.
JC is right—read the entire newsletter. She never said that she personally follows the guidelines the doctors provide, but that these doctors and their specific knowledge have helped her through her own health issues. Paltrow isn’t preaching, and the advice is actually very good.
delight – some of it is, but the sleep aid advice is potentially very dangerous. just cause it’s herbal (valerian root) doesn’t mean it’s free of health complications. it’s like saying everyone should start doing ambien without a prescription to say take valerian for sleep or st john’s wort for mood without consulting a doctor.
procrasterbation – “everyone should start doing ambien without a prescription to say take valerian for sleep or st john’s wort for mood”
All very good suggestions, though I like my heroin mood changer but I am picky like that
procrasterbation–you are right, but it is still only advice. I still think they’re good guidelines–although, as with any kind of herb, you have to be careful, and I agree that there should have been warnings about consulting your own doctor (maybe there are–I don’t feel like re-reading it.) I know Paltrow says some astonishingly stupid things at times, but I just don’t feel like this is something to jump all over her for. Three seperate doctors that she endorsed gave recommendations, at that was it.
I’m gonna have to say, I’ve tried raw food fasts for a few days at a time, and was absolutely MISERABLE.
Anyone who says they naturally just gnaw on carrots all day and feel like they aren’t depriving themselves is lying. People like Gwyneth Paltrow say things like this to make people feel better about converting to their flaky lifestyle.
To those defending Lady G-
How on earth is passing on advice you don’t take yourself to a mailing list of people who’s only reason to sign up is because YOU claim to be so perfect not hypocritical?
I love that. Hey, she didn’t say she takes this advice, so it’s cool for her to pass along clinically shaky ideas such as 12 hour fasts to total strangers. Hey, just because she says she’s perfect, and has the answers for you, but is sending along B.S. that she doesn’t believe herself…wait, that pretty much is the definition of a bait and switch, isn’t it?
Anyone can send along untested ideas they don’t use themselves after claiming to be so much better than everybody else. Only a celebrity can get people online to defend them for it.
I’ve tried raw food fasts too Christina. But only the bears I kill with my bare hands in my yard.
My dislike of Gwyneth goes back many years. Mostly, it is because she seems very entitled and she seems to believe everyone shares the same fortune she does. I can’t find the article since it was written so long ago and I may have read it incorrectly, but this is what formed my opinion of her. One of her classmates from Gwynnie’s elite boarding school was quoted, essentially, with a story that occurred in the girl’s locker room. Gwynnie kind of looked her up and down and said something to the effect, “I guess everyone has different body types.” Which was basically a total slam of the girl who wasn’t nearly as perfect as her. Now, I know we are all different than we were in high school now that we are adults but Gwyneth has yet to change my conception of her as bitchy, spoiled, entitled brat who stole her role in Shakespeare In Love from her best friend, Winona Ryder, then decided to drop out of life and do yoga for a few years because her life was too stressful.
Pasta? A bear? How manly!
Damn straight.