When actress Gwyneth Paltrow isn’t acting in films like Iron Man, writing recipe books, running lifestyle website goop.com or being a mother, she’s guest-editing magazines it seems!
Paltrow is the guest editor of Red magazine’s December issue this month and in it she gives an in-depth interview about her website, being an entrepreneur and keeping everything balanced.
She tells the magazine that she ignores what others say about her. “This is the thing, it’s like the older I get I realise it doesn’t matter what people who don’t know you think,” she says. “It doesn’t matter. You’re wasting your energy. It’s like, if your partner comes to you – or your best friend – and says, ‘Listen, I want to talk about something you did that hurt me, or I think you could improve’, sit down and listen to what they have to say. But some friend of so-and–sos – it’s like, who gives a sh*t?
With her many ventures, she’s been dubbed the next Oprah. Does she agree? “No, not the next Oprah, but I do think the idea is to grow goop in a number of ways… My dream would be to have somewhere like [a spa]. A centre where you could go and have the best people, and detox and reboot and start afresh. I’d love to get to that point one day.”
Despite her heavy work load, she feels she has it all worked out. “When I’m with my kids, I give them everything I have. And when I’m not, I give whatever I’m doing everything I have,” she says. “And that’s my work/life balance. I’ve made it work for me, but it doesn’t matter what my specific thing is… It doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks. It matters what you think of yourself. And what your children think… So if anyone is going to ask my advice, I’d say, do what is right for you and don’t give a shit what anyone else thinks.”
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Posted by Marianne Kaskela.
