By April MacIntyre Feb 27, 2009, 2:01 GMT
Gwyneth Paltrow is defending her website Goop.com, after The New York Times questioned the relevancy and tone of her content.
Goopy - Gwyneth Paltrow - website is a giant commercial for all her "people" who service her health and beauty needs... © Chris Hatcher / PR Photos
"I think the people who are criticizing it or criticizing the idea of it, don't really get it, because if they did, they would like it," Paltrow, 36, told People magazine.
The Times noted that her website struck many as "fatuous" and "puzzling."
Paltrow hit back at the critics and told People that she was doing something new and different. "I think that people like people to stay in their 'box' – they like people to stay how they are comfortable seeing them."
"There's nothing incendiary about it. I find it really interesting because it's a harmless [news]letter that goes out each week."
Paltrow told People she had an abundance of "really useful information" that she was "privileged enough to get", and in her words: "because I have this amazing, super, fortunate life."
She adds. "My friends call me all the time to say, 'Where should I go?' or 'What should I do?' And I thought, you know maybe some other people would be interested in it as well, so I started it, and it's doing great."
An excerpt from Goop:
I think we all begin the new year with thoughts of things we would like to improve, learn, be more disciplined about, cut out of our diets. In January 2007 I decided I’d had enough of my saddlebags and post-pregnancy Shar-Pei-like stomach. I met an incredible woman who changed my life. Her name is Tracy Anderson. She is a dancer, a trainer, an "organic plastic surgeon" as my friend Julia calls her. Her program works but you have to work it. For real. Right now she is on tour with Madonna so I do a lot of video chat with her and I do her DVDs. Every once in a while she sends me a little movie to change something up. She sent me this one for the New Year's butt. It’s really hard. But do it like she says to do it and I swear that in ten days you will see your butt change shape. I do it with 1 lb. ankle weights and then I do her Dance Aerobics DVD. Some days I hate it, some days I love it, but above all, I stick with it. The sticktoitivness is what it is all about.
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twitter.com/mccaw |||||| mccaw@rogers.comFeb 27th, 2009 - 03:01:45
Go have another cigarette there, Gwen. Your father is missed... you, on the otherhand, will probably _never_ be.
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