Photo:Gwyneth Paltrow/Instagram
Gwyneth Paltrow/Instagram
Gwyneth Paltrowis opening up about why she walked away from acting.
During a Q&A at the launch event for good.clean.goop., the actress, 51, shared how she gave up one dream she wanted for so long to pursue a new one, noting, “I think we should all give ourselves the permission to do that.”
“I think especially women have very different chapters in their lives and I think we should feel free to lean into whatever incarnation comes with the next chapter. For me, it was a couple of things. Once I had Apple, I really didn’t want to fly off and go [on] location and I wanted to be home.”
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“I wanted to, and I was really lucky that I was able to do that and take this pause and be home and have my little kids,” she continued. “And then I had this voice inside me. ‘I don’t know if I really want to go back to doing that.'”
“And then it gave me a bit of a crisis, well then what does that mean about me and who am I if I’m not, am I worth anything? It was very confusing.”
Paltrow shares her daughter Apple, 19, and her son Moses, 17, with ex-husbandChris Martin.
“She’s really just a student, and she’s been very…She just wants to be a kid and be at school and learn,” the mom of two said of daughter Apple. “But 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.’ The truth is if you grow up in a house with a lot of artists and people making art and music, that’s what you know, the same way that if you grow up in a house of law, the discussions around the table are about the nuances of whatever particular law the parents practice.”
“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,” Paltrow added.
source: people.com
