Gwyneth Paltrow - Biography - IMDb Gwyneth Paltrow Biography Showing all 128 items Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (1) | Trade Mark (4) | Trivia (83) | Personal Quotes (31) | Salary (4) Overview (4) 5' 9" (1.75 m) Mini Bio (1) A tall, wafer thin, delicate beauty, Gwyneth Kate Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of noted producer and director Bruce Paltrow and Tony award-winning actress Blythe Danner . Her father was from a Jewish family, while her mother has German, and some English and Irish, ancestry. When Gwyneth was eleven, the family moved to Massachusetts, where her father began working in summer stock productions in the Berkshires. It was here that she received her early acting training under the tutelage of her parents. She graduated from the all-girls Spence School in New York City and moved to California where she attended the UC Santa Barbara, majoring in Art History. She soon quit, realizing it was not her passion.

She made her film debut with a small part in Shout (1991) and for the next five years had featured roles in a mixed bag of film fare that included Flesh and Bone (1993); Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994); Se7en (1995); Jefferson in Paris (1995); Moonlight and Valentino (1995); and The Pallbearer (1996). It was her performance in the title role of Emma Woodhouse in Emma (1996) that led to her being offered the role of Viola in Shakespeare in Love (1998), for which she was awarded the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She broke her much publicized engagement to actor Brad Pitt in 1997 citing as the reason the fact that neither she nor Pitt felt that they could pursue their respective careers and at the same time maintain a happy marriage. They remain good friends.

Since then, her roles have included The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Shallow Hal (2001), Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), Iron Man (2008), Two Lovers (2008), and Country Strong (2010). - IMDb Mini Biography By: Tom McDonough Spouse (1) Attended and graduated from the Spence School in New York City (1990). Voted "Most Stuck-up" in Movieline magazine's 100 Most. [October 1998] (August 15, 1998) Gave $21,000 watch to boyfriend Ben Affleck as a birthday present. Named one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (1998). Engaged to actor Brad Pitt on December 20, 1996. Confirmed as the next Calvin Klein model (1996). Attended the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) for one year as an Art History major.

After spending a time in her early teens in Talavera De la Reina, Toledo, Spain, she can speak fairly good Spanish. Turned down the role of Emma Peel in the movie The Avengers (1998). Met with James Cameron for the role of Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic (1997), which went to Kate Winslet . A couple sued Gwyneth for an undisclosed amount claiming that the actress injured them during an April 1999 car accident. Spends Thanksgiving every year with Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw at their home in the Hamptons. As part of research for her role as an obese woman in Shallow Hal (2001), wore the 200-pound latex "fat" suit she used for the film to a bar where people refused to make eye contact with her and treated her rudely. She said that this experience made her saddened by the injustice faced by overweight people in society. Has been friends with Maya Rudolph (of Saturday Night Live (1975) fame) since she was seven. Sticks to a macrobiotic diet. Owned a flat in London, England.

Older sister of Jake Paltrow ; first cousin of actress Katherine Moennig , whose roles include Jacqueline 'Jake' Pratt on Young Americans (2000) and Shane McCutcheon on The L Word (2004), and Hillary Danner ; niece of Harry Danner . TV commercials and print ads for Spain's department store chain El Corte Inglés' spring line (2002). Did her own singing in the comedy-drama movie Duets (2000). Attended Crossroads High School in Santa Monica, California for one year. (April 13, 2003) Attended the ceremony in Talavera De la Reina, Toledo, Spain, in which she was named "adopted daughter". She first visited the town as a young schoolgirl and has since frequently returned there, enamored - she says - of the people, the food and the countryside. Has played Thomas Jefferson's daughter in Jefferson in Paris (1995). Her mother, Blythe Danner , played Jefferson's wife, Martha, in 1776 (1972), just before Gwyneth was conceived.

In the Ken Burns miniseries, Thomas Jefferson (1997), she played his granddaughter. Nominated for a London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in "Proof", performed at the Donmar Warehouse in London, England (2002). She and her husband Chris Martin purchased Kate Winslet 's North London home in Belsize Park. Is the daughter of Bruce Paltrow and Blythe Danner . Gwyneth's paternal grandparents, Arnold P. Paltrow and Dorothy Weigert, were both from Jewish families from Eastern and Central Europe (Poland, Russia, Belarus and Lithuania), and Gwyneth's father had many generations of rabbis in the family tree. Gwyneth's maternal grandparents were Harry Earl Danner and Katherine M. Kile, and Gwyneth's mother is of German, with smaller amounts of English and Irish, descent. Some of her mother's ancestors lived in Barbados. Her mother, Blythe Danner , was about five months pregnant with the future actress when she appeared in Columbo: Étude in Black (1972). The episode also starred John Cassavetes , and aired during the series' first season.

Her name can be heard over the P.A. system in many episodes of the medical drama St. Elsewhere (1982). Gwyneth's father, Bruce Paltrow , was the producer of the series. Turned down the role of Rachel Keller in The Ring (2002), which went to Naomi Watts . Is best friends with Madonna . Attended St. Augustine by the Sea (where she met Maya Rudolph ) in Los Angeles and the Spence School in New York City. Met husband Chris Martin when she attended his band's ( Coldplay 's) concert. [October 2002] She does not employ a nanny to take care of her daughter, a rarity among actors in the film business. Signed a contact with Estée Lauder for $10 million to promote its new line of fragrance, "Pleasures". Her son, Moses Martin , is named after a song Chris Martin wrote for her and appears on Coldplay 's album "Live 2003". Moses is also her father's Hebrew name. She speaks French quite well, having spent a summer in Paris when in her early twenties.

Is good friends with Helena Christensen , who was one of the first people to visit Gwyneth in the hospital, after she gave birth to her son, Moses Martin (Moses Bruce Anthony Martin). Longtime close friends with actress Mary Wigmore , who also appeared (albeit briefly) in Paltrow's films The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and Shallow Hal (2001). Was the Maid of Honor at Madonna 's wedding to Guy Ritchie . Was originally signed on for the role of Ava Gardner in The Aviator (2004), but dropped out. The role went to Kate Beckinsale . Auditioned for the role of Vickie Miner in Reality Bites (1994), which went to Janeane Garofalo . She earns $3 million per year endorsing Estée Lauder on television and in print advertisements. Was hospitalized and then released on January 14, 2008. Attended Brown Ledge Summer Camp in Vermont. Practices yoga. When she played Sharon Stone on Saturday Night Live (1975), Stone felt offended and criticized her performance (1999).

Had suffered post-partum depression following the birth of her son, Moses Martin on April 15, 2008. Attended the Spence School in Manhattan, an elite private girls' school that was also attended by Emmy Rossum and Kerry Washington . Attended the 55th Tony Awards. She can be seen dancing with the revival cast of "The Rocky Horror Show" during "The Time Warp". Ambassador for the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF)'s Women's Cancer Research Fund (2008). Gwyneth's brother, Jake Paltrow 's birthday is a day before hers (9/26 and 9/27, respectively). Born at 5:25 PM (PDT). Returned to work ten months after giving birth to her daughter, Apple Martin , in order to begin filming Running with Scissors (2006). Her friendship with Winona Ryder ended in the late 1990s. Was six months pregnant with her son Moses Martin when she completed filming The Good Night (2007) and returned to work eleven months after giving birth, in order to begin filming Iron Man (2008).

Two of her ex-boyfriends have been named Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine: Brad Pitt and Ben Affleck . Replaced Charlize Theron in the role of Gerda Wegener in The Danish Girl (2015), but after dropping out of the project herself she was replaced by Alicia Vikander . She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6931 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on December 13, 2010. She was accompanied by Tim McGraw , her Country Strong (2010) co-star Faith Hill , and Glee (2009) co-star Matthew Morrison . Second cousin of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords , who was injured in the 2011 Tucson, Arizona shooting. Their fathers are first cousins. (March 26, 2011) Was in attendance at the wedding of Reese Witherspoon to Jim Toth . Auditioned for the role of Kelly Taylor on Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990), which went to Jennie Garth . Auditioned for the role of Susannah Fincannon in Legends of the Fall (1994).

She lost the role to Julia Ormond , but Brad Pitt was so impressed with Gwyneth that he later hand-picked her to play his wife in Se7en (1995). Is lifelong friends with Norman Lloyd , who knew her mother, Blythe Danner , for exactly 40 years, right around the same time she was born. Good friends with Mario Batali . Resides in the same apartment building, in TriBeCa, as Meryl Streep (2012). Gave birth to her first child at age 31, a daughter Apple Blythe Alison Martin (aka Apple Martin ) on May 14, 2004 and her second child at age 33, a son Moses Bruce Anthony Martin (aka Moses Martin ) on April 8, 2006. Their father is her now ex-husband, Chris Martin . Revealed that she named her daughter Apple, because apples are whole, sweet and crisp. The baby's middle name honors her grandmothers, Blythe Danner and Alison Martin.

(March 17, 2013) Admitted that she had miscarried her future third child with her now estranged husband Chris Martin and almost died. (March 25, 2014) Separated from her husband of 10 years Chris Martin . Was the 115th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Shakespeare in Love (1998) at The 71st Annual Academy Awards (1999) on March 21, 1999. Delivered her daughter Apple naturally after a 70-hour long labor but delivered her son Moses via Caesarean section out of fear of having another long labor. Is one of 15 Oscar-winning actresses to have been born in the state of California. The others are Fay Bainter , Gloria Grahame , Jo Van Fleet , Liza Minnelli , Tatum O'Neal , Diane Keaton , Sally Field , Anjelica Huston , Cher , Jodie Foster , Helen Hunt , Angelina Jolie , Marcia Gay Harden and Brie Larson .

Was offered a chance to be a roaster for "The Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe", but declined. Is one of 11 actresses who won the Best Actress Oscar for a move that also won the Best Picture Oscar (she won for Shakespeare in Love (1998)). The others are Claudette Colbert for It Happened One Night (1934), Luise Rainer for The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Vivien Leigh for Gone with the Wind (1939), Greer Garson for Mrs. Miniver (1942), Louise Fletcher for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Diane Keaton for Annie Hall (1977), Shirley MacLaine for Terms of Endearment (1983), Jessica Tandy for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Jodie Foster for The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Hilary Swank for Million Dollar Baby (2004). Was supposed to star in She's Out of My League (2010) but due to production delays, she backed out and Alice Eve replaced her. Greatly admires Johnny Depp .

She worked with him on Mortdecai (2015). As a teenage model she appeared in a 1991 ad urging high school kids to use condoms. Is one of 14 actresses to have won both the Best Actress Academy Award and the Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Golden Globe for the same performance; hers being for Shakespeare in Love (1998).

The others, in chronological order, are: Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday (1950), Julie Andrews for Mary Poppins (1964), Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl (1968), Liza Minnelli for Cabaret (1972), Glenda Jackson for A Touch of Class (1973), Diane Keaton for Annie Hall (1977), Sissy Spacek for Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Cher for Moonstruck (1987), Jessica Tandy for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Helen Hunt for As Good as It Gets (1997), Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line (2005), Marion Cotillard for La Vie en Rose (2007), and Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook (2012). She was offered the role of Emma Peel in The Avengers (1998), which she turned down. Coincidentally, she later played Pepper Potts in an unrelated film of the same The Avengers (2012).

Mother Blythe Danner mentioned in her Emmy Award acceptance speech in 2015, that Kiefer Sutherland babysat her daughter as a child. Personal Quotes (31) Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick. [on her father's ( Bruce Paltrow 's) struggle with throat cancer] It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that. [on her 1997 separation with Brad Pitt ] It really changed my life. When we split up, something changed, permanently, in me. My heart sort of broke that day, and it will never be the same. I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring and it's not about the wedding. It's a grave thing, getting married. And it's easy to get swept up in the wrong things. I find Sex and the City (1998) irreverent and shocking. It's one step beyond how girls really talk.

I would do a cameo on that show in a flash. I realised life is so short and precious, you should do things that make you feel inspired, that push you and teach you something. I'd rather not have a big house, a huge closet of clothes, diamonds and a private plane, and instead a body of work that I'm proud of. I'm glad that some day my children will be able to see my father and hear his voice, get a sense of who he was. One of the things that disturbs me the most about the fact that he's dead, is that I feel like a statistic. I sort of feel like one of those people who was unfortunate and lost their father when they were 30, and life goes on. But he was so unique and so incredible, I don't like to think about it in those terms. I worked so much in my 20s and I really burnt the candle at both ends.

I wasn't too picky about what I did and I was lucky that I did some really good films, but I also did some really rubbish films, I think part of the downside about being so successful and winning the Oscar at the age of 26 is that I sort of became insouciant about the things that I chose. I thought, "Oh, I'll just try this, it'll be fun or I'll do that for the money." Things like that now I would absolutely never do. The simpler things are, the happier they are. The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs. There are certain women in this business who have children and I just think, "You must never, never see them!". You can't do movies back to back and see your child if they go to school. Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business. [on being pregnant while filming Proof (2005)] It was very, very difficult. I was trying not to barf. I felt terrible. Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon , you think, another romantic comedy?

You know. You see her in something like Walk the Line (2005) and think, "God, you're so great!" And then you think, "Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?". But of course, it's for money and status. I just think, "Wouldn't it be great if all of those movies people went to see were about real women?". I love the English way, which is not as capitalistic as it is in America. People don't talk about work and money. They talk about interesting things at dinner parties. I like living here because I don't tap into the bad side of American psychology, which is "I'm not achieving enough, I'm not making enough, I'm not at the top of the pile!". I'm very happy here [in London] and I really like the way the film industry works, everybody cares. I like that it doesn't have this big capitalistic feeling. When you do something in L.A., you really feel the crew are punching the clock. I sort of look at some peers of mine and I think, "No, you've got it all wrong!".

I just want to tell them all to have babies and be happy and not get sucked into that Hollywood thing. I find the English amazing how they got over 7/7. There were no multiple memorials with people sobbing as they would have been in America. There, they are constantly scaring people but at the same time, people think nothing of going to see a therapist. Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick up your pram and put in the back of the cab without having to collapse it. I love the parks and places I go for dinner and my friends. It's a pretty city, you know. British people don't seem to ask each other out on dates. If someone asked you out they're really going out on a limb, whereas in America it happens all the time. Someone will come up to you and ask you for dinner and you'll say, "Sure!" It's no big deal and no weight should be attached to it. It's only dinner, for God's sake. Yet in Britain, mostly what happens seems to be that people meet at work.

If there's a little something there, then they hang out together and, all of a sudden, they're boyfriend and girlfriend. It would be a lot easier on Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston now had they not talked to the press about each other and everything to begin with. I learned my lesson at 24. [on daughter Apple's accent] She says "Mummy" instead of "Mommy", I don't mind that. I will if she starts saying "basil" and "pasta" the English way, as that really drives me nuts. [on the paparazzi] If I have my daughter in the car and they are making me nervous, I'll do whatever I have to do. I keep a whole log. I take pictures of their cars, write down license plate numbers, everything. If they do it again, I can go to the police. I know my rights and, believe me, I will have them arrested. I will stop at nothing. [on Madonna ] She has evolved with so much wisdom and grace that I would say my favorite Madonna is today's Madonna. She's a beautiful product of all her explorations and incarnations.

(Style magazine, September 2006) I'd rather smoke crack than eat cheese from a tin. My father found joy in feeding the people he loved - genuine, bursting happiness. He instilled in me the idea that a meal made for your family is an expression of love. [on the "scenery" in View from the Top (2003)] It's like, all of a sudden, I'm in underwear for half the movie. When you're having dinner with your kids and your husband and someone says something funny or your dying laughing because your three-year-old made a joke, it doesn't matter what else is going on. That's real happiness. Women really need to examine why they're so vitriolic to other women. [on Johnny Depp ] Whether it's Morgan Freeman [ Se7en (1995)] at the beginning of my career or Johnny Depp in my last movie [ Mortdecai (2015)], I feel on-my-knees gratitude for being considered a good enough actor to work with actors of that caliber. Johnny is a true genius and when he works he envisages everything. You know I read the script and I thought it was really funny.

I have always wanted to work with Johnny and I'm so lucky they asked me as he is amazing. We had so much fun on set that it was hard not to laugh. I am who I am. I can't pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year. Salary (4) Gwyneth Paltrow Defends Naming Her Child Apple By Blaming Chris Martin - Today's News: Our Take | TVGuide.com Gwyneth Paltrow Defends Naming Her Child Apple By Blaming Chris Martin by Kaitlin Thomas | Jan 27, 2015 5:54 PM EST Share on Facebook Share on WhatsApp Gwyneth Paltrow Earlier this month, Goop-Master Gwyneth Paltrow gave an hourlong candid interview to Howard Stern in which she talked about sex, her famous exes, the death of her father, and more.

We could bring up the honest way she spoke about ex-boyfriend Ben Affleck ("He wasn't in a good place in his life to have a girlfriend") and his current wife Jennifer Garner ("Not only is she beautiful, but she's so warm, and she cooks and is so into her kids -- she's really great and she's hilarious.") We could talk about her canceled engagement to Brad Pitt ("I was 22 when we met and it's taken me until 40 to get my head out of my ass. You can't make a decision when you're 22 years old.") SAG Awards: The best and worst dressed We could also talk about her late father's reaction to said canceled engagement ("My father was so devastated when we broke up. My father loved him like a son.") But the real takeaway from Paltrow's interview is that, despite all of the jokes, her daughter Apple "loves" her name. You can tell Gwyneth does too by the way she explained the fruity moniker: "Chris [Martin] named her." Paltrow split from Martin last year in the Blog Post Heard 'Round the World . "We actually have a really strong friendship and we laugh and we have fun," she told Stern.

"But there are times when it's really difficult and things happen and you're like, 'I'm sure he doesn't want to hang out with me and I don't want to hang out with him.' But for the sake of the kids you do it. But you also don't do it all tense." You can listen to the full interview, which also includes her thoughts on oral sex and whether or not she ever made a sex tape with Pitt, below: Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin: A Timeline From Unusual Baby Names to Uncoupling Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin: A Timeline From Unusual Baby Names to Uncoupling Suzy Byrne Share View photos [Related: Were There Signs That Gwyneth and Chris Were on the Rocks? ] As much as people gripe about some of the things the Oscar-winning actress has said over the years (from that infamous humblebrag about her wood-burning pizza oven to advising her Goop readers to drop $450,000 on their spring wardrobes ), the world has watched her grow up, fall in love, start a family, and carry out her relationship, for the most part, in private — a rarity in Hollywood.

The fact that they never walked a red carpet together, told us it was something that they both protected and cherished and, whether you a Goop devotee or Goop despiser, it was respectable. [Related: Why Do So Many People Hate Gwyneth Paltrow? Let Us Count the Ways ] Here, we look back at their decade-plus of togetherness, including those unusual baby names, sweet song dedications, and more… October 2002: Just weeks after the death of her father, director Bruce Paltrow, which Gwyneth later said brought her to her knees in grief, the "Iron Man" actress meets Chris backstage after a Coldplay concert. They start spending time together in New York, London, and Los Angeles. The British singer later said Gwyneth, whose exes included Brad Pitt and Ben Affleck, was his first serious girlfriend. Dec. 1, 2003: They are photographed outside a doctor's office with Chris excitedly patting Paltrow's belly. Two days later, they announce they're expecting their first child. Dec.

5, 2003: Gwyneth and Chris secretly marry at the San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara, California. They honeymooned at Esperanza, An Auberge Resort, in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. May 14, 2004: Gwyneth gives birth to their first child, daughter Apple Blythe Alison Martin, in London. Their unusual baby name makes headlines with the blonde later telling Oprah Winfrey, "It conjured such a lovely picture for me – you know, apples are so sweet and they're wholesome and it's biblical – and I just thought it sounded so lovely and ... clean." September 2005: Coldplay releases "Fix You," a hit song which Gwyneth's mother, actress Blythe Danner, later said Chris wrote for "Gwyneth when her father died." She added, "I weep every time I hear it." View photos January 2006: Gwyneth confirms that she's pregnant with her second child. April 8, 2006: Gwyneth gives birth to the couple's son, Moses Bruce Anthony Martin. "Moses" is the name of another song Chris wrote for his wife.

February 2007: During an interview with Oprah, Gwyneth talks about family life. "I've been at home being a housewife, which is amazing and I've loved every second of it," she said. "It's 24 hours a days, seven days a week and they want you present and real and connected and there — but it's been the best three years of my life." April 2008: In an interview with Glamour U.K., Gwyneth calls rumors of marital trouble "ridiculous." And she declares that she and Chris will never invite the world into her marriage, saying, "You will never see us out publicly. We just don't want to be one of those couples. It evolved that way. He gets furious if I say something about him." June 2008: In an interview with Rolling Stone, Chris says Gwyneth has been his has been his only "serious" partner. "I always felt it would be great to be with a very powerful woman because it would keep you in your place," he tells the mag. "Being married to someone very successful and very powerful basically keeps you hungry to improve. You've got to be hungry.

If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you'd want to prove yourself, you know what I mean?" Read More September 2008: Gwyneth launches her lifestyles website, originally in the form of a newsletter. It is where she later announces her separation. February 2009: In an interview with Elle UK, Gwyneth talks about her famous marriage. "It doesn't behoove us to be a public couple," she says. "He certainly doesn't want to be that. We've never ever walked down a red carpet together, we never will. If people think that that means we're not together, then — ha ha ha! — so be it." January 2011: Gwyneth opens up about suffering from postpartum depression after the birth of Moses. "I felt like a zombie. I couldn't access my heart. I couldn't access my emotions. I couldn't connect. It was terrible," she tells Good Housekeeping. And it was Chris who first brought it to her attention. "About four months into it, Chris came to me and said, 'Something's wrong.

Something's wrong.' I kept saying, 'No, no, I'm fine.' But Chris identified it, and that sort of burst the bubble." Of her marriage, she adds, "I can depend on him. He makes me laugh. He's really appreciative of me. You know, he makes me feel special." June 2012: Chris— during a concert in Miami — runs into the audience and plants a kiss on Gwyneth. View photos September 2012: Gwyneth says that one of the secrets to her relationship with Chris is that they have a lot in common. "We laugh a lot, and at the same jokes," she tells InStyle. "We like the same music and we like to do the same things." However, she adds, "Our artistic temperaments together [is the hardest part]. Artists are sensitive. There are ups and downs, mood-wise. Musicians need a certain gravitas and focus in order to write. The temperament that goes with someone who is creative can be challenging." March 2013: In a candid interview with You magazine, she opens up about suffering a miscarriage. "I had a really bad experience when I was pregnant with my third," she says.

"It didn’t work out and I nearly died. So I am like, 'Are we good here or should we go back and try again?'" April 2013: Gwyneth is named People magazine's Most Beautiful Person, though she hints at home she's less glam and Chris teases her about it. "If I've gotten fully dressed up, he'll be like, 'Oh, wow! You're Gwyneth Paltrow!' Because he's used to seeing me in like baggy shorts and frizzy hair," she says. May 2013: Gwyneth gets even more candid about marriage in an interview with Glamour UK. "It's hard being married," she admits. "You go through great times, you go through terrible times. We’re the same as any couple." She adds, "I’ve learned more about myself by being married than anything else. I hate to say, 'We’ve got it worked out,' because you never know what’s going to happen, but we laugh, we’re good friends, we like to do the same stuff." Summer 2013: Gwyneth and Chris relocate from London, which had been their homebase, to L.A.

July 2013: The family is photographed on vacation together in Mallorca. October 2013: Rumors swirl that Vanity Fair is doing a story on Gwyneth, including how she had an affair with real estate developer Jeffrey Soffer in 2008. She asks her friends not to cooperate with the magazine for the story. November 2013: The elusive couple makes a rare public appearance at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum for the opening of the exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of the L.A. Aqueduct. They are openly affectionate. December 2013: The family vacations together in Hawaii. They look happy as they sit side by side on the beach talking. February 2014: Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter talks about why he spiked the Paltrow story, saying it didn't live up to the hype. March 1, 2014: The couple is lovey-dovey together at Sean Penn's pre-Oscars Haiti benefit. March 7, 2014: The family is seen enjoying First Fridays along Abbott Kinney Boulevard in Venice Beach.

The normally health-conscious duo hits up a hot dog food truck with their kids. March 16, 2014: Chris plays a Coldplay concert at SXSW in Austin. March 22, 2014: The couple appears together at a private Coldplay concert at the Sony lot in Hollywood. March 25, 2014: In a post on Goop, Gwyneth announces their separation, which crashes the website. "It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate," she writes. "We have been working hard for well over a year, some of it together, some of it separated, to see what might have been possible between us, and we have come to the conclusion that while we love each other very much we will remain separate. We are, however, and always will be a family, and in many ways we are closer than we have ever been," the statement said. "We are parents first and foremost, to two incredibly wonderful children and we ask for their and our space and privacy to be respected at this difficult time.

We have always conducted our relationship privately, and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and coparent, we will be able to continue in the same manner." Reblog Gwyneth Paltrow Has a Boy Gwyneth Paltrow Has a Boy Email Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin have added to their family. Their second child, a son named Moses Martin, was born this weekend, the actress’s rep tells PEOPLE. The baby was delivered at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. The Shakespeare in Love Oscar winner, 33, and her British-born Coldplay frontman husband, 29, already have a daughter, Apple, born May 14, 2004. Moses is the name of a song Martin wrote for his wife in 2003. Following months of speculation that she was pregnant, in January Paltrow confirmed that she and Martin were expecting. After a Screen Actors Guild screening of Paltrow’s movie Proof, Lou Diamond Philips, about to moderate a panel on the film, introduced Paltrow as “a pregnant woman” and then asked her, “How far along are you?” “Far enough along to feel very cumbersome,” Paltrow answered.

When a member of the audience asked her how she got her hair so shiny, Paltrow replied, according to TV’s The Insider: “It must be the prenatal vitamins … I’ve been taking them for a few years.” Chris Martin, Gwyneth Paltrow and their daughter Apple. Three months after the birth of daughter Apple, the new mother appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and admitted she couldn’t understand why people were making such a fuss over the baby’s name, which, in its entirety, is Apple Blythe Alison Martin. Paltrow said that her husband suggested the name soon after she discovered she was pregnant. “It conjured such a lovely picture for me – you know, apples are so sweet and they’re wholesome and it’s biblical – and I just thought it sounded so lovely and … clean,” Paltrow told Winfrey. “And I just thought, ‘Perfect!'” “We love unusual names in the family,” Paltrow’s mom, Blythe Danner, told PEOPLE in January. As for being a mom, Paltrow told Winfrey that the overwhelming love she feels for her child is “a whole new dimension in emotion that I’ve never experienced.

It’s crazy.” Show Full Article How Gwyneth Came to Name Her Baby Apple How Gwyneth Came to Name Her Baby Apple Email EXPLAINED: Forget the computer company and the Beatles’ publishing company as influences. Gwyneth Paltrow, 31, and Coldplay’s Chris Martin, 27, were inspired by a friend to name their new baby girl (born Friday) Apple, reports Access Hollywood. Apparently, Martin’s North American booking agent, Marty Diamond, has a daughter named Apple, and the couple asked his permission to give their child the same first name if they had a girl. As previously deciphered, the baby’s middle names, Blythe and Alison, are the names of Paltrow’s and Martin’s mothers, respectively. PENNED: Billy Joel, 55, has agreed to write two children’s picture books for Scholastic, the U.S. publisher of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels, the company has announced. The first, Goodnight My Angel, is due in September and will be based on a song of the same name that came out in 1993, as Joel and Christie Brinkley were divorcing.

Joel wrote the song for their daughter, Alexa Ray, who was 7. His second book, New York State of Mind, inspired by one of Joel’s songs, is tentatively scheduled for fall 2005. JUMPED: After getting the boot from ABC for lackluster ratings, Drew Carey and his pals, including Kathy Kinney, are heading over to the youth-oriented WB network with a new improv comedy show. Drew Carey’s Green Screen Show is one of six new programs the WB introduced as part of its fall lineup this week. Other new shows include Jack & Bobby, starring Christine Lahti as the single mother of two boys (one of whom is destined to become president of the U.S.), and The Mountain, a family drama set in a posh ski resort. PITCHED: Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Randy Johnson, 40, tossed a perfect game Tuesday night as the Diamondbacks beat the Atlanta Braves, 2-0, at Turner Field. It is the first perfect game in the National League since July 28, 1991, when Dennis Martinez did for Montreal against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

SET: ABC News on Tuesday appointed Elizabeth Vargas, 40, to replace Barbara Walters, 72, as co-host of the newsmagazine 20/20, and hired British celebrity interviewer Martin Bashir (best known for his Michael Jackson documentary). Vargas will be teamed with John Stossel on 20/20, which retained its Friday time slot in the fall schedule announced by the network this week. PREPARED: Don Johnson’s 17-acre Colorado ranch is for sale for $21 million amid a bankruptcy filing and lawsuits that claim the ex-Miami Vice star, 54, or his company, owes more than $948,000, says the Associated Press. The spread in Woody Creek includes a house, guesthouse, office studio, outbuildings and 1,250-square-foot swimming pool. ENDED: Wednesday’s night episode of NBC’s Law & Order will be Jerry Orbach’s last. As detective Lennie Briscoe, Orbach, 68, was the senior member of the cast and starred for 12 of the series’ 14 seasons. His exit is being blamed on the show’s grueling shooting schedule.

He’s jumping to the spinoff Law & Order: Trial by Jury, which will only require him to work two days a week. He will be replaced by veteran actor Dennis Farina, 60. WANTED: Firehouse.com is teaming up with ABC’s The Bachelor in their search for “America’s next bachelor,” says an ad on the Web site for firefighters. “We are at the end of casting, but still think there must be a great guy out there, so please send your nomination right away.” Last year, Bachelorette Trista Rehn picked Ryan Sutter, a Colorado firefighter. Meanwhile, the season finale of the current The Bachelor ends Wednesday, with Giants quarterback Jesse Palmer choosing between Tara and Jessica B. Show Full Article Gwyneth Paltrow speaks about her devastating miscarriage and how she longs for another child | Daily Mail Online comments Gwyneth Paltrow has spoken for the first time about her anguish at losing her third child in a devastating miscarriage which almost claimed her life, too. In an unusually candid interview with The Mail on Sunday’s You magazine today, the Hollywood star confides that she is ‘missing’ the baby.

And she confesses that she still longs for another child, despite having admitted that she may now have ‘missed the window’ to become a mother again. Confessions: Gwyneth Paltrow has spoken exclusively to the Mail on Sunday about the distress of her miscarriage which has left her wary of trying for another baby Ms Paltrow also told You magazine that she feels 'very broody' whenever she sees friend Beyonce Knowles with her one-year-old daughter Blue Ivy This is the first time that the 40-year-old actress has told of the miscarriage, which she describes as a ‘really bad experience’ that has left her worried about trying for another child. Ms Paltrow has two children with her husband, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin: daughter Apple, eight, and son Moses, who turns seven next month. Both are keen for a younger sibling. RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share ‘My children ask me to have a baby all the time,’ she says. ‘And you never know, I could squeeze one more in. I am missing my third. I’m thinking about it. ‘But I had a really bad experience when I was pregnant with my third. It didn’t work out and I nearly died.

So I am like, “Are we good here or should we go back and try again?’’ Glow again: Gwyneth, pictured pregnant with Moses in 2006, says she would love another child Ms Paltrow also confesses that she feels ‘very broody’ whenever she sees friend Beyonce Knowles with her one-year-old daughter Blue Ivy. The singer also suffered a miscarriage before becoming a mother. Ms Paltrow, who gives no details of when she suffered the miscarriage, also praises her husband’s talents as a father. ‘Regardless of what happens in our marriage, I chose the best father,’ she says. ‘[Chris] is so good to the children and to know that you had kids with such a good man is a real weight off you. We are committed co-parents, we make all the decisions together and lean on each other for support.’ Last week she caused a stir by revealing that she and Chris, 36, who live in a 33-room house in London, had banned their children from eating high-carb foods such as pasta, bread and rice.

Her revelations about motherhood come less than a year after she spoke of her dilemma over whether to try for a third child as she headed towards her 40th birthday. In an interview last August, she was asked if she would have another baby and replied: ‘I would love to, but I don’t know if I can go back to diapers and things like that. 'I’m so past that, I think I may have missed the window. I think maybe when Moses was three I would have done it . . . but now he’s six and such a guy I feel like I’m out of the baby phase. If it happens, it happens.’ Last year it was reported that Gwyneth and Chris, who have been married since 2003, may move to Los Angeles to be closer to Gwyneth’s mother Blythe, 70, after they bought a £6.6 million house there. YOU magazine exclusive: Gwyneth Paltrow on the health scare that inspired her new cook book By Jane Gordon It took a major health scare two years ago for Gwyneth Paltrow to realise that striving for the ‘perfect’ life was making her ill.

Now, with a new cookbook inspired by the feel-good eating plan that helped her recovery, she tells Jane Gordon that today’s more relaxed Gwynnie is all about balancing the good and the naughty within Up close and personal: It took a complete breakdown which saw Gwyneth Paltrow fear she has suffered a stroke for her to change her diet All sort of worries and prejudices assailed me when I first picked up Gwyneth Paltrow’s new book It’s All Good, with its cover picture of the 40-year-old actress looking radiantly beautiful without make-up or airbrushing. How was it possible for a cookbook that took as its baseline the elimination diet (no dairy, eggs, sugar, corn, wheat, gluten, potatoes, tomatoes, red meat, shell or deep-water fish) to offer recipes that were as ‘delicious’ or ‘easy’ as Gwyneth claims? But in the week before our meeting I got busy with the book and – despite my initial scepticism – found myself savouring Gwyneth’s recipes, many of which relax the strict ‘elimination’ regime.

I found myself loving her Avocado Toast, relishing the Super Crispy Roast Chicken and feasting on the Grilled Steak with Melted Anchovies and Rosemary. (‘I don’t eat red meat,’ Gwyneth writes in the preface to this dish, ‘but sometimes a man needs a steak.’) By the time I meet Gwyneth, by a roaring log fire in her North London home, which she shares with her rock-star husband Chris Martin and their children Apple, nine, and Moses, seven, the pages of my copy of It’s All Good have more ingredients stuck to them in just one week than any other celebrity-chef book in my kitchen. Clean living: The scare forced Gwyneth to change her diet and banish dairy, eggs, sugar, corn, wheat, gluten, potatoes, tomatoes, red meat, shell or deep-water fish for her new cook book But then Gwyneth’s motivation in writing this – her second cookery book – had nothing to do with winning Michelin stars or promoting a spin-off TV show.

What led her to create these recipes was a frightening experience – in the garden of her London home on a spring day in 2011 – when she lost control of her right hand and suffered a blinding pain in her head that was so extreme she thought she was having a stroke. Gwyneth was, in fact, suffering from a ‘horrible migraine’ and a panic attack, but in the days that followed she underwent a series of tests that revealed a number of disturbing health issues. ‘I was a mess. I was vitamin-D deficient, I had anaemia, I had thyroid issues, my liver was congested, I had hormonal imbalances and a benign tumour on my ovary that had to be removed – I mean, it was crazy. I knew it was time for change. ‘My children ask me to have a baby all the time, but I had a really bad experience when I was pregnant with my third and it didn’t work out’ It was my doctor and good friend Dr Alejandro Junger who suggested I should clean out my system by following an elimination diet for 21 days,’ she says.

The thought of giving up so much of the food she loved (‘cheese, red wine, french fries, pasta and baguettes straight out of the oven’) was unnerving, but after three difficult weeks of deprivation she felt cleansed and cured. It was the discovery, when she returned to Dr Junger, that the elimination diet was not a quick fix but a regime that she should follow ‘for life’ that inspired the idea for It’s All Good. Acknowledging the fact that following these strict new dietary guidelines made her feel good, she took on the challenge of trying to make them taste good. With her friend and co-author Julia Turshen, she began the long ‘but crazy fun’ process of creating ‘super-healthy recipes’ that would be as simple as they were scrumptious. ‘Creating a meal for my friends and family, sitting together, eating, laughing and talking – that is when I am so happy. Oh my God, if you could see how much food I make – I am the original Jewish mother. Making meals from these new recipes that look, smell and taste like the food I always cooked but are also super-healthy is an added joy,’ she enthuses.

My 'mishpocheh': Gwyneth with her late father Bruce and mother Blythe Danner in 2002 From right: With Moses and Apple on a recent trip to St Lucia, and with husband Chris Martin in 2003, the year they married If it had taken me a week to fall for her recipes, it takes me about five minutes to be totally in thrall to Gwyneth herself. In fact, I am so charmed by her that I begin to harbour fantasies of becoming her new best friend. And I do not believe that even her harshest critics – those envious cyber trolls who subscribe to, but mock, Gwyneth’s weekly online blog Goop (in which she shares ‘all life’s positives’, offering helpful tips on everything from fashion to the fiscal cliff) – would be able to resist her either. Jet-lagged (she has just arrived back from a flying visit to New York to celebrate her actress-mother Blythe Danner’s 70th birthday) and suffering from a cold, she is gentle, inspiring, funny, a little irreverent and very honest. ‘Regardless of what happens in our marriage, I chose the best father.

Chris is so good to the children’ When I confess that the previous evening I had cooked one of her recipes (Teriyaki Chicken) but had been unable to resist accompanying it with two large glasses of red wine, she says, ‘Oh God, I do that, too. Every day. I really like a martini or a glass of red wine in the evening. I think it’s a really nice way to say, “OK, it’s adult time now.” Having lived in England for so long, I have become a real booze hound. All you guys drink so much, me included. A glass of red wine is excellent for you, but I tend to not stop there,’ she says with a conspiratorial grin. There are other confessions, too, and our conversation goes way beyond fermented soya beans to subjects such as cosmetic surgery, her friendship with Jay-Z and Beyoncé and her admiration for the Duchess of Cambridge. But she is at her most endearing when she touches on family life.

Family has always been important; she adores her younger brother Jake, 37, and says that she had a ‘love of your life’ relationship with her late father, the director Bruce Paltrow, who died in 2002 and inspired her first cookbook My Father’s Daughter. Her bond with her mother was, she admits, not as intense. Open heart: Gwyneth confesses that she is 'missing' her third child and that her children Apple and Moses keep asking for a sibling ‘I wouldn’t say I’m a mummy’s girl, but I have grown to have a tremendous appreciation of her as a woman. I was very much a daddy’s girl. I still feel the loss. I cried about my father today. I just thought, “I need my dad”. He died ten years ago, but the grief doesn’t get less intense, it just hits you less frequently,’ she says softly.

Gwyneth has ploughed her own path, willingly scaling down her acting career – which took off when she was 19 and gained her an Oscar for her role in Shakespeare in Love by the time she was 26 – for the sake of her family; taking on roles, such as Robert Downey Jr’s foil Pepper Potts in the Iron Man movies, that involve the minimum disruption to her children’s lives (the longest she has been away from them is nine days). When I ask if she is a mother first, she fires back, ‘First and second and third!’ Hands-on with her children, she takes and collects them from school, hangs out with the other mums and does her best to give them a normal life. Something, she says, that is far more possible in London than it would be in New York or Los Angeles. ‘In Britain, they have a lot of laws to protect you and we enforce them very strongly so that our children can stay private figures, and the British press leave us alone, which is great. It means we can go on the tube into the centre of London because it’s quicker and more fun for the kids. We can do normal things.

Last weekend, Chris and Moses went to a football match together and Apple and I walked down Hampstead High Street and got an ice cream.’ Right choice: Paltrow said that her husband Chris Martin is the best father to their two children Throughout their married life, Gwyneth and Chris Martin, 36, have avoided being photographed together – something that may have prompted gossip about their relationship but, more importantly, has been a major factor in preserving the privacy and security of a family life that is surprisingly traditional. While Gwyneth is effusive in her praise for Chris, she admits he is no domestic god, having attempted to cook just twice and with disastrous results. ‘The first time I was breast-feeding Apple and was exhausted, and he said, “You go upstairs and have a bath and relax and I will make dinner.” So there I was, the baby asleep, finally relaxing when the fire alarm went off, and then the fire brigade arrived. A week or so later, he had another go and set fire to the kitchen again and when the fire brigade arrived they said, “Have you been cooking again, Chris?”’ she says, laughing at the memory.

Marriage, as Gwyneth has said, is ‘complicated’, and although what she says doesn’t conform to the unrealistic happy-ever-after clichés that we have come to expect from celebrity couples, there is no denying the depth of feeling she has for her husband. ‘Regardless of what happens in our marriage, I chose the best father. He is so good to the children, and to know that you had kids with such a good man is like a real weight off you. We are committed co-parents, we make all the decisions together and we lean on each other for support as well,’ she says. Next up: Gwyneth reprises her role as Pepper Potts in Iron Man 3 on British screens 25th April When Chris is away touring or recording with Coldplay they FaceTime each other on their iPhones every day. When they are together, the house is filled with laughter. ‘My husband makes me laugh every day. He is hilarious – he could have been a comedian, but he keeps it under wraps. He can laugh me out of a bad moment just like that,’ she says. Gwyneth is anything but the controlling mother that she has sometimes been portrayed as in the media.

Rather she is soft and loving and is at her most emotional when talking about motherhood. Apple loves to bake and sing, but her new ambition, inspired by her passion for animals, is to become a vet (‘she supports the RSPCA and is a committed vegetarian – I think she really belongs in Stella McCartney’s house,’ Gwyneth says affectionately). THE TALENTED MS PALTROW Thanks for Sharing 2012 Iron Man 3 2013 Meanwhile, Moses is ‘kind and cuddly’ and absolutely ‘delish’ (an Anglicism that Gwyneth uses a lot) and very much his father’s son, playing drums, guitar and violin and writing songs. She relishes the mother-son relationship and has embraced his hobbies, spending hours acting as his ‘Lego sous-chef’, laying out the pieces for him as he constructs spaceships and castles. Fame, Gwyneth is the first to admit, can be ‘isolating’, and she is enthusiastic in her praise for the Duchess of Cambridge’s seamless and graceful move from ‘commoner’ to royal. ‘I don’t think she has ever put a foot wrong.

I think she is beautiful and clever and it’s great that she wears high street. I am a huge fan but I have never met her,’ she says. There is a peal of laughter and a hint of a blush when I mention that she has met Prince Philip, several years ago at the relaunch of the Arts Club in London’s Dover Street. The Prince was clearly enthralled by Gwyneth and her close friend Cameron Diaz, staying late at the party to hear Gwyneth sing. ‘He was lovely and so funny. He is quite naughty and irreverent. He was my partner at dinner – I had a great evening,’ she says. Although Gwyneth says that the majority of her closest friends are not famous – mostly old school pals – she admits that she does have ‘a few really good famous friends’, such as Stella McCartney, Robert Downey Jr, Cameron Diaz and Kate Hudson (whose children are like cousins to Moses and Apple).

Closest of all are Mr and Mrs Jay-Z Carter who – along with her in-laws (her mother-in-law Alison spends every Thursday with Gwyneth and the children) – she regards as part of her mishpocheh (a Yiddish word for ‘your gang, your family’). ‘Jay is like a big-brother figure to me, he has a very calming and mature energy. He is an amazing force in our life – the kids call him Uncle Jay and Beyoncé, Auntie B. I was a mum before B so I suppose I may have passed on some advice but I have learnt so much from her, too. She is gorgeous, very feminine, very clever in that she knows how to be powerful and yet demure. And their baby Blue Ivy is totally delish. She’s made me very broody.’ Might she, I ask, consider having another baby? ‘My children ask me to have a baby all the time and you never know – I could squeeze one more in. I am missing my third. I am thinking about it. But I had a really bad experience when I was pregnant with my third and it didn’t work out and I nearly died.

So I am, like, “Are we good here or should we go back and try again?”’ she says before changing the subject. At 40, Gwyneth feels liberated and newly ‘awake’ and looks years younger but totally natural. How has she managed to remain looking so youthful? ‘I don’t mind a few wrinkles and freckles. I had this laser treatment recently, Thermage, and it took a couple of years off my face, but I haven’t had any plastic surgery yet. Maybe one day I will, although I don’t like the idea of it. I prefer the thought of ageing in the way French actresses do – have the odd cigarette and glass of wine and just enjoy life.’ There is something exciting about the idea of this relaxed post-40 Gwyneth Paltrow. She confesses that ‘the bane’ of her existence has been her ‘perfectionism’ – something she now thinks borders on a ‘personality disorder’ and she is working hard to undo. ‘Life isn’t perfect. We are human beings, we are totally flawed and you just set yourself up for disappointment and shame if you try to be perfect. There is no point,’ she says with conviction.

The only role that really inspires her now is motherhood (although she does say she would like to ‘do a musical movie that was original and different’). As I leave – proving my enthusiasm for her book by showing her my grubby and much-thumbed copy – she looks at her smiling cover picture. ‘I look a mess, no make-up and my naturally frizzy hair un-brushed. But it was taken while we were cooking for real and I thought, “this is me, this is how I am”. I think it says something about how I have learnt to accept myself.’ Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin - Photo 16 : Alum photo - sofeminine Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin Use the left and right keys of your keyboard to navigate the album Wenn Seeing double: Stars of biopics and their real-life counterparts Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin bizarrely chose the baby names Apple Blythe Alison Martin and Moses Bruce Anthony for their offspring. The actress said of her first baby name: "Apples are so sweet and they're wholesome and it's biblical." ©Wenn

Question: What is the name of actress Gwyneth Paltrow's oldest child?
Answer: Apple