She said that she wasn’t quite expecting the cruelty in the blowback, but she’s since gotten used to it. Risen above it. Is better for it. Etcetera. Now, everyone is consciously uncoupling, she says.
Paltrow, journalist-blogger, also interviewed her friend Cameron Diaz for her In Goop Health series. They discussed why Diaz quit acting, but also motherhood. Diaz credits Paltrow, mother of all mothers, for pushing her into motherhood. “I would not have become a mother if it wasn’t for you. You used to talk, I’d be like: ’I’m not having kids.’ And you’re like: ‘You are having kids, you’re getting married, you’re having children.’ And I was like: ‘No, I’m not.’ And you’re like: ‘You have to do it, you have to!’ And I was like: ‘I’m not gonna do it.’”
You know how this ends. Little Raddix has been here. Paltrow won the fight in the end. “You were like: ‘You have to. You don’t understand. If you don’t do this you will be so sad that you didn’t do it.’ And so I credit you so much with the fact that you never let up on me,” Diaz said. “You were so, you know, I would say, encouraging and also…”
Paltrow finished her sentence: “…a pain in the ass.”
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