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Gwyneth : the biography
This deeply researched and rigorously reported biography of Gwyneth Paltrow takes us inside the world of one of the most influential, aspirational and polarizing celebrities of the last thirty years. Love her or hate her, Gwyneth Paltrow has managed to stay on the A-list, her influence spanning entertainment, fashion and the wellness industry. Throughout her career, Paltrow has participated in countless carefully managed interviews, but the real Gwyneth - the basis of her motives, desires, strengths, faults and vulnerabilities - has never been fully revealed, until now. Drawing from extensive conversations with more than 220 sources, including close current and former friends and colleagues, Amy Odell provides insight and behind-the-scenes details of Paltrow's relationships, family, friendships, iconic films and tenure as the CEO of Goop.
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Gwyneth Paltrow debuts new fashion line at NYFW
Washington Post fashion critic Rachel Tashjian spoke to Gwyneth Paltrow about her new brand, Gwyn, at its 2025 New York Fashion Week debut.
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Five uncomfortable moments from Gwyneth Paltrow’s testimony
Prosecutor Kristin VanOrman cross-examined Gwyneth Paltrow on March 24 in Park City, Utah, during her trial over a 2016 skiing incident.
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‘You probably have a parasite’: Neoliberal risk and the discursive construction of the body in the wellness industry
In this article, I ask how the body is discursively constructed within the wellness industry. I analyze a corpus of articles from the Goop franchise, examining how bodies are constructed, and how subjects are impelled to act within contemporary neoliberal risk culture. Corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis reveals that the body is ultimately constructed as unwell and at risk, by virtue of its presence in the environment. Faced with this inescapable risk, the neoliberal citizen is responsible for managing the self in ever-increasing domains. I link the particularities of this discursive embodiment to larger cultural imperatives of self-surveillance, discipline, and control, and argue that it is particularly a white female subject who is interpellated within this discourse. Throughout, the wellness industry is revealed as propelling the interminable cycle of the project of the self, and as a contemporary mechanism for the reproduction of docile white female bodies. (Discursive embodiment, neoliberal ideology, risk society, corpus analysis, critical discourse analysis, feminist critique)*
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Demographic and psychometric predictors associated with engagement in risk-associated alternative healthcare behaviours
This paper builds on prior work exploring the use of risk-associated alternative healthcare (RAAH) in Canada. RAAH uptake was surveyed to explore the characteristics of adult RAAH users and the value of established psychometric instruments previously used in alternative healthcare studies in predicting RAAH behaviours: the Control Beliefs Inventory (CBI), the Reward Responsiveness Behavioural Activation System (RBAS) scale, the Positive Attitudes to Science (PAS) scale, the Satisfaction with Orthodox Medicine (SOM) scale, and the brief version of the Susceptibility to Persuasion-II (StP-II-B) scale. Findings suggest RAAH is influenced by gender, age, income, education, employment, chronic illness status, and ethnicity. Engagement in some form of RAAH was common (around 40%) and the most common types of RAAH use reported were physical manipulation and herbal/nutritional supplement use. Other higher-risk AH activities (such as use of toxins and physically invasive procedures) were also reported by about 5% of respondents. The StP-II-B and PAS instruments were predictive of the likelihood of engagement in RAAH behaviours, as illustrated by higher risk tolerance, desire for novelty, positive attitude to advertising and social influence, and positive beliefs about science. The CBI, RBAS, and SOM instruments were not predictive overall. However, the CBI and SOM instruments were predictive of engagement with physical manipulative RAAH activities, while the RBAS was predictive of herbal/nutritional RAAH engagement. These findings can help inform health professionals’ understanding of public health-seeking behaviours with respect to risk.
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Sixty seconds on . . . Goop
Speaking about the impact of fake news on our lives on 30 January, the NHS chief executive likened modern wellness products to the snake oil first peddled by unscrupulous American businessman Clark Stanley in the 19th century. “Gwyneth Paltrow’s brand promotes colonic irrigation and DIY coffee enema machines,” he said, “despite them carrying considerable risks to health and NHS advice clearly stating there is ‘no scientific evidence to suggest there are any health benefits associated with colonic irrigation’.” When products are available for retail sale, we have a robust legal and compliance team that works closely with our science and research group to vet product claims.”
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Elle Macpherson, “anti-vaxx” nonsense, and the opportunity to engage
Gossip that an alternative medicine loving supermodel is dating the disgraced advocate of anti-vaccination nonsense matters
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Jen Gunter: Poking the snake oil
Jen Gunter, 52, is the scourge of medical nonsense, ever willing to stick her head above the parapet to denounce the latest faddy idea with wit and no little courage, given the poisonous nature of social media. An obstetrician-gynaecologist from Canada, she practises in California: fad capital of the world and home to Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop, which has often provided a tempting target. Of a machine designed to deliver coffee enemas and marketed by Goop at $135 (£102; €117), she wrote, “Keep the coffee out of your rectum and in your cup. It is only meant to access your colon from the top.” And, when trolled about her views, she fights back: “Sometimes I just feel like swinging the bat.”
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Gwyneth the business guru : Paltrow opening gyms
Bloomberg Businessweek ETC Editor Emma Rosenblum discusses Actress Gwyneth Paltrow's influence as 'lifestyle guru' with Pimm Fox on Bloomberg Television's 'Taking Stock.'
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