Is Gwyneth Paltrow too good to be true? Don't answer that.
Aren't celebrity mothers peculiar creatures? Sharon Osbourne once said she was such a rubbish mum she couldn't even master a packed lunch for her children and had to get the housekeeper to do it.
But Gwyneth Paltrow is clearly at the other end of the scale. Her children, it seems, go to school with lovingly crafted vegetarian sushi.
She's even posted the recipe on her website, Goop, although it might be advisable not to consult it at 8am on a Monday, given that it requires you to have in the fridge some toasted nori seaweed, agave nectar and some 'cooked and cooled' asparagus.
Now you might laugh, but with Gwynnie sitting opposite you, all lithe blonde perfection and in sky-high heels, it's just depressing.
In fact, I'd hazard a guess most working mothers would be overwhelmed with feelings of inferiority in her company, not least when she starts waxing lyrical about how clever her children are.
'Moses has just turned four and he speaks Spanish better than I do,' she trills. 'He corrects me all the time.' What about his older sister, Apple? Has she mastered Mandarin yet? Possibly not, but she is, according to her mother 'a little smarty pants'.
No surprise there, then.
Of course, it's easy to mock Gwynnie and all she represents. But, honestly, she pretty much hands it to you on a (macrobiotic) plate.
She's very sweet, and quite entertaining in her own kooky way, but she does have an infuriating Kate Winslet-like tendency to try to stress her ordinariness.
Even when it comes to her latest film role in Iron Man 2, in which she plays Robert Downey Jnr's sidekick, the super-efficient Pepper Potts, she tries to argue that the role of PA - give or take the superhero theme - isn' t that far removed from her real life. Eh?
'I'm the person who organises everyone's schedule. I feel like that's a woman's job anyway - it's like you take care of your guy, you take care of your kids, you take care of the house, so I didn't think it was very far from my life in a lot of ways.'
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Get underneath all the wacky diet and meditation stuff (she could bore for England on the merits of meditating), and it's true that Gwynnie does share some of the dilemmas of any other working mother.
Her other half is Chris Martin, of Coldplay fame, and both their jobs involve shuttling between their two homes in London and New York.
She says she could do three films in a year and spend her whole life globetrotting, but she has made a decision to curtail her ambition.
She talks a lot of work-life balance.
'I have these two beautiful kids and I just want to be home with them. It's probably not the best thing for your career, but my kids are my priority.
'I could throw myself into my career and then I'd probably lose my marriage. You don't want to get too career-orientated and lose that.'
Now that's quite an admission, and a laudable sentiment, but it does make her other 'career' - her website - all the more puzzling.
She admits that offering advice on everything from diet to wine choices (yes, really) takes up a lot of her time. So why did she set it up in the first place?
She goes a bit airy-fairy again while explaining. 'I don't know. I think because I always felt like a very, very fortunate person, and I get to travel and get exposed to yoga, macrobiotics, Chinese medicine, detoxing. And I started accumulating all of this information, and I have access to these amazing people.
'Like I would be at a conference and meet a nutritionist at the forefront of cutting-edge science and learn all of this cool stuff. And I thought, surely there's a mum in Ohio who would want to know this, but doesn't have the access to it?
Or, if I ask Kate Moss what the best vintage clothing store in London is, then why shouldn't you know too? So I thought it would be fun to share it.'
And share she has, although whether mums in Oldham are as appreciative as the mums in Ohio is debatable. One rather suspects Sharon Osbourne, with all her motherly failings, would get a warmer reception there.
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Two things stood out in this article for me: one, the whole 'it's a woman's job to take care of her family and her man' crap. How about everyone works together and makes things happen? Teh other is the whole 'I'm so bloody fortunate to have this fabulous life and aren't the plebs so fucking lucky I'm gracious enough to impart my wisdom on my lame blog so they can feel so inferior to me' bullshit. God, this woman sets my teeth on edge. I'd almost rather hang out with Vadge than this uptight cow. I think if I could manage to get a few cocktails into Vadge she might be kind of fun. This one, not so much.
'Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.' Ben Franklin
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." --Sinclair Lewis
Don't worry Butt, the reason her son speaks better Spanish than her is because he was taught it from an early age by the nanny!!!
I thought that from that she comes across as mysoginistic - or at least sexist and supercillious. Oh and she can't fucking cook so I guess her housekeeper is making the vegeterian suchi (barf) too!
^^ I had Spanish lessons when I was a toddler by a lady that lived our apartment complex. I don't think we can assume it was a nanny.
She can too cook!Originally Posted by Novice
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oriR-RChGQ0[/YOUTUBE]
Novice, we all know how difficult it is to roast a chicken and some spuds so thank god fishsticks checked with her fabulously expert friends to give us guidance through this difficult and trying recipe.
'Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.' Ben Franklin
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." --Sinclair Lewis
She is just so bloody annoying and smug. She has one of those faces that I want to slap.
I used to feel that way about Martha Stewart but the whole going to prison thing made her less smug to me!
She is just so ugly, and such a bitch...that video of her um "cooking" ahahaa.
No, no ... veg sushi can be lovely. Check out this gorgeous recipe by the oh so gorgeous Ani Phyo. Because I don't care for nori, I just make the Ginger Almond Pate and eat it with the shredded carrot and sprouts in lettuce wraps. Yummy and healthy.
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ab7HbUFCic&feature=related[/YOUTUBE]
Carrie: What kind of impotence do you think it is? Charlotte: The kind that makes it soft. (Sex and the City)
*check out aabbcc's veggie sushi* Truthfully I eat veggie sushi too, just the way it was described by Gwynnie sounded disgusting & untempting.No, no ... veg sushi can be lovely. Check out this gorgeous recipe by the oh so gorgeous Ani Phyo. Because I don't care for nori, I just make the Ginger Almond Pate and eat it with the shredded carrot and sprouts in lettuce wraps. Yummy and healthy.
[youtube]2Ab7HbUFCic[/youtube]
and THANKGOD they pealled the potatos for her before hand because she's wealding that potato-peeler with the distaste usually reserved for Chris' dick during a BJ.
I can't get past the fact that she didn't wash her hands after boning that bird. Now everything thing she touched after is covered in chicken gunk. Disgusting.
She is such a useless shit stain on the panties of humanity~Bitter's awesome description of K.K
OK... she's annoying and smug... but I still like her much better than the drugged up wh*res, Lindsay Lohan style.
Said it before, I'll say it again... She played a cunty, spoiled, entitled bitch a little too well in Great Expectations. She's not that great an actress.
My Posts Have Won Awards. Can Any Of You Claim The Same? -ur_next_ex
"I don't have pet peeves. I have major psychotic fucking hatreds, okay". ~George Carlin
Mmm ... salmonella and campylobacter. Nothing like a potentially deadly case of food poisoning with your supper.
Carrie: What kind of impotence do you think it is? Charlotte: The kind that makes it soft. (Sex and the City)
Fishsticks doesn't associate with common people unless they're being paid. For heaven's sake she can't pretend to be someone who makes $25,000 a year.
“The thing that attracts people to “The Sopranos” is the family element. It shows that America still has a longing for that traditional upbringing.” Christine O'Donnell
Thank you! Will be doing this soon.No, no ... veg sushi can be lovely. Check out this gorgeous recipe by the oh so gorgeous Ani Phyo. Because I don't care for nori, I just make the Ginger Almond Pate and eat it with the shredded carrot and sprouts in lettuce wraps. Yummy and healthy.
[youtube]2Ab7HbUFCic[/youtube]
You, ma'am, are awesome.
"Creepy, like when Tom Cruise laughs." - Bloodhound Gang
"They can take our ignorance when they pry it from our cold dead minds." - Stephen Colbert
Or Gwynnie can't really speak Spanish - which was pretty obvious from an interview she tried to do cold in Spain.
i have to zero the contain to your level -bugdoll
you can't even be ogirinal - Mary
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