So, so happy for Gwynnie and her perfect skin ...

Just when you thought this week couldn’t get any worse, Gwyneth Paltrow has published a photograph of her make-up free face (right) to commemorate her 44th birthday. Hurrah! Not.

‘I am embracing my past and future,’ the actress and health guru tweeted, beneath a disgustingly radiant snap of her looking about 14 years old.

Of course, Gwyneth was perhaps sneakily advertising her infamous ‘moon dust’ health supplement (£42 per jar) that she mixes into her breakfast smoothies (£170 of ingredients, thank you).

In a birthday statement that our own dear Queen would baulk at, Gwyn shared that as she’s grown older, she’s come to feel more comfortable in her skin.

‘One of the most interesting things about being a woman is that around the time you turn 40, you get what I like to call a software upgrade and some amazing new features.’

Yes. some are lucky enough to get a new nose, courtesy of a lovely doctor. Others get another chin. Not so lucky. Here is my birthday question: does she call it ‘moon dust’ because so many of us would be happy to tell her to stick it where the sun don’t shine?

In the meantime: Happy birthday, Gwyneth.

No make-up! so BRAVE.