Gwyneth Paltrow knows she needs to bring her A-game to topple Tom Cruise, and I have to applaud her latest effort here. She must really want to win this.
On the British morning news, the mother of two tried to relate to the little people by complaining about mommy guilt:
Chatting on GMTV this morning, the actress admitted moving to America to film Iron Man 2 will be tough.
Gwyneth said: “That’s hard, and I feel – I’m feeling mother guilt because my daughter’s looking forward to going, but my son always says, ‘I don’t want to leave my London house’ – and I feel pretty guilty about that.
“I just try to say, ‘Well, but we’re going to swim and it’ll be sunny.’ I try to point out the positives.”
Asked whether fame and parenthood works well together, Gwyneth said: “I barely ever do films – I’m with them almost all the time.
“But in a way it makes the transition harder. I feel like if I worked all the time, then they would be used to it.
“But when I’m always there, and I’m always doing school runs and I’m always around – and then I just disappear for 14 hours a day to film – it’s hard.”
A high class problem to have. The alternative, I suppose, to uprooting her young children against their will would be to give up acting like she said she would. Standing in stark comparison with many mothers who have no choice but to get a job, it’s not like she needs the money (unless, it’s possible, she does — that would go a long way in explaining GOOP). And she can’t say she’s sacrificing for her art: She’s making Iron Man 2. I enjoyed Iron Man 1 as much as any comic book geek, but an arthouse indie it ain’t.
Honestly? I don’t think she wants to work as much as she wants to have something to complain about.
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Excuse me for noticing, but what a pair of legs! The black outfit really makes them “stand” out, as it were. They remind of the table lamp. At least it sounds like she wants to be with her kids. Time will tell.
I’m with Holly. Stick Lady doesn’t want to be with her kids NEARLY as much as she wants to be in the public eye.
While I can respect that she wants to work, even if it is to play a superhero’s secretary, she should just shut up, or at least tell those destined to be just as entitled as their mother children that they need to shut up and appreciate that they have homes on both sides of the pond. Either way, she needs to stop complaining.
Oh Good lord, her again? She can quit acting. Nobody is forcing her to act. That is, if her family is that important to her and all….
I saw legs like that once…on a chicken!
She is leggy I’ll give her that. But She looks like an albino baby giraffe. Like she could stumble over her new found extra long legs. She even has the neck.
I agree with Holly, Gwyneth is playing to win.
Wow — most unflattering picture of her ever.
Am I supposed to go cry for her now?? I’m sure that’s totally comparable to what my dad felt when he had to leave me (5) and my sister (1) for six months to go to the first Gulf War. Now that I put it in that light, I do feel bad for her. Stop picking, Holly! You’re just jealous ’cause you don’t have those, in the words of Pasta, albino baby giraffe legs.
Every once in awhile, this thing pops up, and I have to remind myself that she has not, in fact, been high-colonicked to death. Hope springs eternal.
Her complaints come off disingenuous because she grew up with everything handed to her…including her career. I bet she’s never done a real days work in her whole life.
‘I don’t want to leave my London house’
yeah, that must be tough…being torn between your LA and London mansions…I feel your pain, sweet child. These people (Gwyneth and co.) need to take 90% salary cuts, they are the most overpaid, overrated, spoilt, ungrateful and entitled bastards to ever walk the earth.
ugh, I just HATE her. I’ve been hating her for so long, it’s become the longest one-sided relationship I’ve ever been in.
That comment stuck out for me too Nati. Do you think the child really said that or is his pompous mum putting words in his mouth (and goop in his poor little brain). These children will likely grow up to be us vapid and snobby as their parents
Jenn, her son is 2 years old. I doubt he could have said that. I mean, I understand that every child is different and some meet developmental milestones earlier than others, but how many 2 year olds have an understanding of geography? He could have said “I don’t want to leave THIS house” rather than “my London house”…but that, too, is doubtable. A lot of children only start talking at this age, others don’t speak in complete sentences. Again, every child is different, they all develop differently, but in this case I highly doubt that this kid is a genius with a fluent speech and a profound knowledge of geography at the age of 2. Let’s not forget who his parents are, I doubt that Gwyneth and her dimwit husband are raising a genius.
My family moved when I was two; I don’t remember any of it.
Of course, my parents were parents who told me we were moving (my dad had a new job), instead of best friends asking me what I felt and then doing what I told them.
At two?
“Me no go-way” plus some snuffles is about what you’d get. But only if you prepped them with horrid tales about the hell you were about to move to. Hell being defined as a place with no candy or Backyardigans.
Sell it as a fun trip on an airplane to Grandma’s town, where there’s a cool bed with stars on it and you’re in like Flynn.
lol, Minnow, that proves it then, the giraffe-like twatwaffle (finally I get to use this word too…two weeks too late) lied. Shocker. She’s putting words in that poor kid’s mouth because she knows there’s no way for anyone to disprove it. “My London house”…f***ing twat.
Well, I hope she has properly indoctrinated both little Mango and Obadiah (or whatever) in hatred for America, because it seems to be what gives her life meaning. Well, that and nourishing the inner ass.