Gwyneth Paltrow shares nepo baby thoughts, plan to "literally disappear"
The Goop founder is has also never been motivated by money, she shared in a recent interview
Gwyneth Paltrow is blazing a bold new path for women afraid of getting older. None of that “aging gracefully” nonsense for the Goop founder and Iron Man truther. Nope! She’d rather just go away altogether.
“I thought in my 50s I could downshift for some reason. I don’t really know why I thought that would happen. I was talking to my friend who’s in her 60s, and she’s like, ‘Oh, no. No way. You got 15 more years.’ I was like, ‘Oh, my God,’” Paltrow said in a recent interview with Bustle.
Still, even though she’s feeling a bit overloaded getting her kids into college and running her major business (“I’ve burned three things in the oven this weekend, just stuff like that, where you’re like, ‘What the fuck?’”), Paltrow loves the stage of life she’s in. “I don’t give a fuck what anyone says about me, thinks about me, this is who I am,” she shared. “I felt like 50 was a deepening into myself. And, apparently, that just keeps getting better.”
Until you’re around 75 when “everything starts to hurt,” that is. In response to a question about whether she would be the one “who teaches us all how to head into our 70s and 80s with grace,” Paltrow responded “I’ll probably try, knowing myself.” (Earlier in the interview, she lamented the fact that “we as women are so programmed to be busy.”) Then again, she also “might be like, ‘Fuck this.’ I might just disappear, and no one will ever see me again.”
That’s clearly the route Paltrow actually wants to take because she brings up the fantasy yet again, many questions later, in response to her plans whenever she decides to sell Goop. “I will literally disappear from public life. No one will ever see me again,” she said.
But before Paltrow makes her dramatic, Bilbo Baggins at his eleventy-first birthday-style exit, she just wants her nineteen-year-old daughter, Apple Martin, to be spared from the nepo baby allegations. “Now there’s this whole nepo baby culture, and judgment that exists around kids of famous people. She’s really just a student, and she’s been very… She just wants to be a kid and be at school and learn,” Paltrow said.
“There’s nothing wrong with doing or wanting to do what your parents do. Nobody rips on a kid who’s like ‘I want to be a doctor like my dad and granddad,’” she continued. “I think it’s kind of an ugly moniker. I just hope that my children always feel free to pursue exactly what they want to do, irrespective of what anybody’s going to think or say.”
Maybe by shunning the nepo baby label, Paltrow’s kids will grow up to be as “unfortunately not” motivated by money as (she at least thinks) she is. “I don’t make choices to build value in the wrong way. I’ve always done independent films,” she said. (Community note: Paltrow has appeared in seven Marvel movies.) “I don’t know. Money has never been my thing. It’s never been my driver.”