GWYNETH PALTROW I’VE RUINED ALL MY LOVE AFFAIRS
FROM macrobiotic diets and perking up your sex life to how to treat ailments you did not know you had, Gwyneth Paltrow’s aspirational website Goop offers a glimpse into her perfect lifestyle.
But the Oscar-winning actress can be as mortal as the rest of us – and has confessed she is terrible at relationships.
Gwyneth, 44, is currently dating writer Brad Falchuk, co-creator of the hit musical comedy show Glee.
But she famously “consciously uncoupled” from Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin, 40, in 2014 after 10 years of marriage and two children – Apple, 13, and Moses, 11. They were divorced last year but remain friends.
At 24, she was engaged to Brad Pitt, whom she dated from 1994 to 1997, but said she called it off because she was not ready for marriage.
She also had a three-year on-off relationship with actor Ben Affleck from 1997 to 2000.
Paltrow yesterday admitted that the ending of the relationships were largely her fault.
She said: “Oh my God, I’ve ruined so many relationships. I’m a pretty good friend and sister and daughter, but I am at my potentially most vulnerable in the romantic slice of the pie.”
Recalling her time with Pitt – who went on to marry Friends actress Jennifer Aniston before leaving her for Angelina Jolie, whom he is currently divorcing – she said: “I ****** that up, Brad!”
But her romantic life is not the only thing to land Gwyneth in hot water. In July, Goop was forced to take down claims that products sold on the site were based on NASA technology.
Goop claimed that a £100 packet of stickers said to be made from “NASA spacesuit material” could “rebalance energy frequency in our bodies”.
Mark Shelhamer, former chief scientist at the US space agency’s human research programme, said: “Wow. What a load of BS this is. Not only is the whole premise like snake oil, the logic doesn’t even hold up. If they promote healing, why do they leave marks on the skin when they are removed?”
The watchdog organisation Truth In Advertising last week launched a lawsuit challenging the marketing of 50 products promoted by Goop but Gwneth put up a staunch defence.
Of her critics, she said: “It was so deeply unfair and I wish people would do their homework before they are vitriolic about it.”
She insisted she would not hide from the backlash, adding: “Going into a hole is exactly the opposite of the lesson.”
Goop was started in 2008 and has grown into a multimillion pound business endorsing “wellness” products such as £50 jade eggs that women wear internally to prevent uterine prolapse or crystals to treat infertility.
‘I am most vulnerable in the romantic slice of the pie’