Ah, Lady of the Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow).
She's blonde, she's beautiful, she has it all, and people seem to hate her for it.
Why?
Well, for some, the answer might be a given, but for others, it might need a little more
explaining.
That's what we're here for, Juicers, so don't you go scratching your heads for too long.
The truth of the matter is fans seem to have a love-hate relationship with Gwyneth.
They loved her with Brad Pitt, but they hate her with Goop.
What's that all about?
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It's not a secret that celebrities have a lot of cash.
So much cash they could fill bathtubs and float around in all their glorious piles of
money.
Let's be honest here though, none of their fans wants the fact that they're bathing in
dollar bills thrown in their face.
Gloating about wealth can be taken as a little rude, and this may be one of the reasons that
fans have turned their noses up against darling Gwyneth.
Paltrow seems to take showing off her wealth just one step too far by almost making it
seem as though her lavish life is no-big-deal.
Fans have noticed that she has a habit of flaunting the expensive things around her
house - like the brick pizza oven installed in her backyard, for example - and regularly
feature them on her blog.
People think she's a woman who is so painfully out of touch they almost have to admire her
abilities to be so gleefully immersed in her privilege.
Gwyneth, when continuously lambasted for her over-priced lifestyle wellness brand Goop,
said, "I am who I am.
I can't pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year."
While the wellness industry - known for its crystals, Himalayan salt lamps, detox diets,
acupuncture, and the list goes on - has grown outrageously in the last ten years, many seem
to consider Goop to be "pure unadulterated, blood-diamond free, organic-certified, biodynamic,
moon-dusted bullshit."
- they said it, not us.
Heaven forbid we should forget about Goop.
Her most recent endeavors since taking a step back from filmmaking include trying to be
a lifestyle guru, publishing cookbooks and hosting a website called Goop.
There's nothing wrong with expanding horizons and building your own business; let's get
that straight before we say anything else.
Women in business are amazing, and we love them!
- But Goop is … well, let's just say that fans don't really have a lot of nice things
to say about the company.
While its goals seem to be encouraging a healthy lifestyle and diet, several doctors and dietitians
have called out the brand for its unhealthy and very small portions of almost no food.
A writer at The Guardian sarcastically commented that the recipes read "raw almonds, raw honey,
an arugula garnish, maybe a mushroom on a feast day."
Do you remember the "NASA Space Suit Stickers"?
In 2017, Goop released "healing stickers" that were claimed to have been made from the
same "conductive carbon material" NASA uses to make spacesuits.
Needless to say, a representative from NASA shut down that story, stating, "Wow, what
a load of BS this is,."
We should probably add here that NASA does not use carbon to make its spacesuits.
And who could forget about the candle that Gwyneth claimed, "This smells like my vagina."
Ummm … Sure, this recent controversy might be more harmless than Goop scandals in the
past.
No matter what you think of the gimmicky $75 candle, it sold out on goop.com.
So, does that mean a lot of people's houses now smell like Gwyneth's… vagina?
For someone who claims to be a lifestyle Guru, fans seem to think that she's a little out
of touch with what it means to live a 'healthy' - and affordable - lifestyle.
On Goop, Paltrow also posts "must-have-outfits" that cost hundreds -sometimes thousands- of
dollars.
This is not something the average person would be able to afford, but Paltrow posts them
in a way to make it appear that everyone can afford such luxuries.
To be clear, it's not that fans have a problem with the products that she sells, but it's
how they're marketed that is the problem.
These "must-have" items are obscenely expensive and clearly aimed at the "elite" and extremely
wealthy women.
However, the average person can't afford to spend so much money on such things.
Fans just seem to feel that it makes Gwyneth completely unrelatable and out of touch with
the average person.
Although Paltrow adamantly denies it, many people feel that she built her acting career
with her family's money.
Her father was a television producer and her mother was an actress; between the two, they
were known to amass a small fortune.
Paltrow spoke out against these rumors, stating that "He [my father] said, 'You are completely
on your own.
So he never gave me anything.
I never had any supplementation, he never helped me with my rent, I never had a trust
fund."
Some people, however, simply aren't convinced.
There seems to be a constant admiration and frustration with Gwyneth because she preaches
the idea that if you stop being lazy, go to Pilates three times a week, count your calories,
and drink your green juice, you'll be just as fit and clear-skinned as she is.
A narrative which couldn't be further from the truth, considering that she allegedly
spends upwards of $30,000 per year to get her body
Paltrow is known to be quite full of herself.
She once stated that she had the "butt of a 22-year-old stripper" with a completely
serious face.
But that might not even be the most ridiculous statement the incredibly fit celebrity has
said.
In an interview with Elle magazine, she went on to say that "It's so much easier to sit
home and not exercise and criticize other people.
What I love is inspiring people.
People come up to me and say, 'I want to have two kids and wear a bathing suit and not feel
terrible about myself.
I see how hard you work and it makes me feel like I can do that too.'"
And there's that one moment people just don't want her to forget about …
Gwyneth won her Best Actress for Shakespeare In Love, and many have thought it to be a
questionable win, to begin with.
Unfortunately, she didn't make things any better with her speech.
Her award speech has been considered the epitome of what's considered an Oscar speech fail,
and she's never been able to live it down.
It might be one of the - many - reasons there aren't many fans of Gwyenth around anymore.
She was seemingly on the verge of tears from the start, and she trembled with emotion as
she sobbed her way through a long list of collaborators and loved ones.
The weepiness lacking actual tears left viewers doubting her sincerity.
When she lost control and started sobbing so much the cameras had to cut to her mother,
actress Blythe Danner.
While people think that she may be out of touch with the normal world, she's completely
aware of what people think about her.
The actress had opened up about all things being famous and living life as Gwyneth in
a new interview, where she even goes as far to address the time when everyone (apparently)
hated her.
Recalling the week Star Magazine called her the most hated celebrity in the world, Paltrow
admits it was hard, but she was also confused by the title — thinking that there has to
be someone else out there that people should hate more.
"I remember being like: Really?
More than, like, Chris Brown?
Me?
Really?
Wow.
It was also the same week that I was People's Most Beautiful Woman.
For a minute I was like: Wait, I don't understand.
Am I hated to the bone or am I the world's most beautiful?"
she told the New York Times.
The most important thing is, Gwyneth doesn't really care what people think about her.
She tries not to even read her own press, telling Marie Claire UK, "It's none of my
business what people think about me."
The actress-turned-lifestyle mogul has built a $250 million brand off the back of bad press.
It seems like controversy is excellent clickbait, and who are we to judge?
What really matters is what the most hated celebrity on the planet thinks of herself,
and as it turns out, Gwyneth Paltrow sometimes can't even stand Gwyneth Paltrow.
She told the Sunday Times Style magazine that it took until age 40 to "start getting my
head out of my ass."
In the past, Paltrow confessed about the moment that she realized fame had transformed her
into a person she didn't really like.
She claimed it happened after the success of Shakespeare In Love, when she became the
"number one female movie star in the world."
Winning an Oscar seems to have that effect on some people.
"Look, I'm famous, I get famous-person treatment," she said.
"You don't want to be an a**hole, but slowly if people start removing obstacles for you,
if you live in a world where you never have to sit in line, where people don't confront
you, where they don't tell you the truth, that's what you become.
That's what I became ... Luckily, my dad burst my bubble for me in a way that it could never
be reconstructed."
Opening up about her change from actress to wellness guru-warrior, Paltrow now describes
her acting days as her past, and Goop her future.
She also revealed the impact of working with Harvey Weinstein, confirming it was most definitely
a toxic relationship.
"The one time that Harvey propositioned me was really almost the least of it in terms
of how onerous that relationship was, and it was very quid pro quo and punitive, and
I always felt like I was on thin ice, and he could be truly horrible and mean and then
be incredibly generous.
It was kind of like a classic abusive relationship," she confessed.
She also went on to explain that although she really loved acting, it got to a certain
point that she started to feel very frustrated at not being able to have control over things
in her life.
She felt as though she had to convince other people to give her roles rather than getting
them based on her talent.
While we might not be graced by her presence on our screens anytime soon, there's no doubt
Goop will be showering people with all the gadgets and "must haves" that many of us can't
afford.
Some people might hate her, but there's no denying that she is a powerful force in the
business world.
Now, if you don't mind, we're going to go sell our car so that we can get ourselves
one of those vagina candles …