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Nauseating.

Stewie, I agree I cant stand her. I remember when she had Apple she said that she would not be going back to work because she didnt believe in mums working! Dont working mums have enough problems. Her dope of a husband makes me puke too. I saw that this morning on Daybreak. It was female Sun reporter who was talking about it and she said 'Well I guess Feminism is dead' That coming from a 'woman' who represents that rag!!!!!

Sad.

She gets the piss ripped out of her for her website, in some ways unfairly, but this is bad.

Perhaps we shoukd invite her on to MN and give her a sharp talking to?

so she stays at home while the kids are at school and works from home

then she makes dinner

sometimes she has to compromise between doing what she wants and what suits her family

whats so mind blowing about this?

hopefully she didn't actually say the headline, maybe her interview was taken out of context

Ooh ignorant lady. What a twerp. Have posted the link on FB so all my friends can appreciate it.

I haven't yet read the link, but one question why tge reference to tge fact she is White?

She has always irritated me beyond belief. I don't know why anyone gives her the time, she is unbearable.

Does she not act anymore because she's a Mother?

Loves I think the OP was making the point that as an individual Gwyneth Paltrow belongs to a very privileged subsection of society e.g. Upper class / rich / white / educated etc - her race is just one facet of that.

As a (fairly uniquely) privileged woman it's therefore a bit fucking stupid dim of her to make pronouncements about what "mothers" should / shouldn't do without at least nodding towards the privileged position that enables her to make her own choices but which are not available to the vast majority of those she is preaching to talking about.

She is a walking advert for modern surgery, you can barely see the scars from where her brain was removed.

Gwyneth, hope your publicist reads this to you, please I beg you SHUT THE FUCK UP every time you open your trap you confirm that theres a village somewhere missing it's idiot.

Shame it's not the full article but tbh couldn't it be more of a reflection/dig at her mother who is also an actor? Plus she has made movies since she's had children surely nit all of her work is during school time?

where does she say exactly that working mothers should stay at home? it sounds more like she thinks she should be a home for chrisssy wissy

also she'll soon be off for months at a time making another lame movie (if shallow hal is any judge of her career)

Does anyone actually listen to Paltrow? Last time I was conscious of her she was promoting some kind of cooking or eating system (I forget which). Didn't realise she was meant to be influential

she also says, her husband is very communicative,which is rare for a British man!!

Has she never made a movie since her DCs were born?

Um, she still works so this is utter, hypocritical crap! She's made movies and I saw a TV series she did on Spain and Spanish food that she did a couple of years ago when I was living in the US, so to say that she's there EVERY DAY is rubbish. And she and her DH are multi-millionaires FFS - the way their live their incredibly privileged life is hardly relevant to normal people.

I'm no apologist for Gwynnie, but there is no quote that she's saying that, the subs have added that headline, she's just talking about prioritising family and conveniently not mentioning making films away from home for weeks on end. I'd like to see the original article.

Obviously she is very naive and possibly somewhat dim. She also seems - based on my reading of her newsletter which is a proper laugh - to make decisions based on very emotional rather than rational grounds.

The headline doesn't matter, IMO, what she is quoted as saying is bad enough. The thing about having to make compromises does my nut in. Why isn't the husband compromising? Plus, she has a career. She hasn't put it on hold.

*Describing advice she gave to a friend, she said: "She is an actress and in a new relationship with someone else with a big career, and I said this may not be feminist, but you have to compromise.
"It's been all about you and you're a big deal. And if you want what you're saying you want - a family - you have to be a wife, and that is part of the equation."*

...and we're living in which century?

<cries>

Miss Paltrow, 39, told Harper's Bazaar: "I have little kids in school. I want to maintain my marriage and my family, so I have to be here when he (Martin) comes home."

WTF? Doesn't he have a front door key?

Desperate Housewives
Military wives
Time Travellers Wife
A Paris wife
Prisoner's wives
Bland pop star's ex-actress wife

....i'm sensing a movement out there trying to put women back in a "role" these last few years....

'She rises at 7am'

pa ha ha.

I do wonder sometimes - the people who spew this stuff. Are they proud? Do they think 'rises' is an actual real life description?

If you are going to write for a living, just write fgs!

Gwyneth Paltrow shouldn't flaunt her good fortune, let alone moralise to those less blessed...

Gwyneth is as wet as fuck, though

she first came to my attention yeeears ago in a Marie Claire article where she was marooned <cough> on a desert island alone for two days, just after Brad dumped her

she had to keep a diary. A bigger load of self pitying, self absorbed, drippy old toss I have never read before or since, thank fuck

Gwynnie, for the sake of your sanity and self esteem, flick the vs at your old man, tell him he knows where the fucking fridge is/how to bath the kids, go out for the night and LAUGH YOUR HEAD OFF for once. Then do it again next week. And the week after that

(I know you haven't asked for my advice- but you seem quite free in dispensing it yourself, so there you go)

hth!