Of some recent advice she gave to a girlfriend, she said: “She is an actress and in a new relationship with someone else with a big career, and I said this may not be feminist, but you have to compromise. It’s been all about you and you’re a big deal. And if you want what you’re saying you want—a family—you have to be a wife, and that is part of the equation. Gloria Steinem may string me up by my toes, but all I can do is my best, and I can do only what works for me and my family.”

ON BOTOX

Interviewer Justine Picardie writes: “She is lightly tanned and smooth skinned while avoiding the telltale waxy complexion of overdone Botox. “I’ll take my wrinkles,” she says. “I don’t like the Botox thing.” But she does enjoy sunshine for the vitamin D, despite “my dermatologist yelling at me.” (She admits to “little things, like lasers” and regular facials, often with the London-based Vaishaly Patel.)”

ON DETOX + HEALTHY LIVING

At the time of the interview, Gwyneth’s on a 12-week detox program. “I have a lot of inflammation in my system, so I’m not having anything I’m allergic to—no gluten, no dairy, no sugar,” she says. “I’ll wake up exhausted; I can feel my adrenal cortex being really high. When I get into bed, my heart will pound, my skin won’t be good, I’ll feel cranky, and then I’ll just know it’s time.”

But when she’s not detoxing, it’s wine and cheese that’s on the menu (although you do wonder how much?) “I eat whatever I want. I like bread and cheese and wine, and that makes my life fun and enjoyable.”

Clean living became a priority after her father, Bruce Paltrow died in 2002 of throat cancer, which was brought on by a lifetime of drinking and smoking. “All I’ve learned about nutrition and health came from his cancer,” she said. “I’ll probably have a long and healthy life because he didn’t.

ON TEACHING HER DAUGHTER ABOUT FASHION

“I’ve been saving my clothes for her since before she was born. I was like, I’ll bet you anything I’ll have a daughter, and she’ll be a really cool butch lesbian and be so above clothes, and I got a very clothes-obsessed child. So if she’s a lesbian, she’s a lipstick lesbian. She doesn’t like anything avant-garde at all. She likes anything that’s pretty, pretty, pretty or has a bow or a ruffle or is pink.”

ON HER FATHER

“I would do anything to have him back, but half the reason that my life is good, has real, true value, is that he died. I would obviously rather have him alive, but he gave me so much in his death. I don’t go back and say I wish he had done this differently, I wish he hadn’t smoked, because the fact is that he did and he died. As much grief and pain and trauma and heartache are caused, there was an equal amount of positivity that came out of his death.”

If you don’t subscribe to Gwyneth’s Paltrow’s Goop newsletters, you should. I like to think she writes it all herself and takes the photos or at least some of them. She published this a few days ago – behind the scenes at the Harper’s Bazaar. Just your average Saturday fashion shoot, really.

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