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I Really Didn’t Want to Go | Harper's Magazine

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Photo illustrations by Nicolás Ortega Source photograph of Gwyneth Paltrow ©RB/Bauer-Griffin/Getty Images They told me they couldn’t offer me an interview with her at this time. Fine by me—I didn’t want to talk to her anyway. She talks a lot and doesn’t say much. A Financial Times profile published on the occasion of her fiftieth birthday suggested we have her to thank for spirulina, celebrity skin care lines, the good divorce, blended families, sex positivity, and dry skin brushing (just what it sounds like). I’ve also heard she made yoga happen. This is all obviously ridiculous, flatly ahistorical, except maybe the celebrity skin care line thing, but that doesn’t matter—even if someone thinks she’s done more harm than good, and that a lot of it is an upscale scam, they will comment, wearily, pragmatically, just a little bit enviously, that you have to respect it, don’t you, what she’s done. She has successfully integrated her imperial wellness company into American life. Memories of

May 2023 Issue [Letter from the Celebrity Beyond] I Really Didn’t Want to Go On the Goop cruise by Lauren Oyler , Photo illustrations by Nicolás Ortega Source photograph of Gwyneth Paltrow ©RB/Bauer-Griffin/Getty Images [Letter from the Celebrity Beyond] I Really Didn’t Want to Go On the Goop cruise by Lauren Oyler , Adjust Share They told me they couldn’t offer me an interview with her at this time. Fine by me—I didn’t want to talk to her anyway. She talks a lot and doesn’t say much. A Financial Times profile published on the occasion of her fiftieth birthday suggested we have her to thank fo

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