Gwyneth Paltrow breaks silence on her unauthorized biography
Gwyneth Paltrow calls bullshit on an unauthorized biography of her life that came out this summer.
When asked if he had read the gossip anthology, “Gwyneth: The Biography,” the actor responded to British Vogue with a curt, “Oh, God, no.”
Published in July, author Amy Odell’s 448-page tome is based on interviews with 200 sources, but was researched, written, and published with zero participation of Paltrow herself. Despite its dubious origins, the media was happy to pounce on the manuscript for headlines.
While the Oscar winner told Vogue she wasn’t going to dignify the book with a reading, her husband, TV producer Brad Falchuk, offered to look through it and report back.
Her criticism was merciless, according to Paltrow.
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“So my husband flipped through it, just because I thought, ‘What’s in this?’” she revealed. “He said, ‘It’s like someone put up a message on ChatGPT and said, ‘Extract all the articles from the Daily Mail and write a biography about Gwyneth Paltrow.'”
For Paltrow, the most frustrating part of Bunk’s biography was how it downplayed her real accomplishments in favor of the tabloid press.
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“She completely missed everything, the truth of who I am, what my impact is,” the lifestyle mogul said of Odell. “[My husband] It was like, ‘It’s just bad.’ It’s really poorly written. I was like, ‘Okay.’ The things I saw in People magazine, and [other outlets that picked it up]it was all rubbish, the things I supposedly said.”
Paltrow also called the project “sexist,” pointing out how the stories of male moguls receive serious literary treatment, while the lives of powerful women are too often reduced to salacious nonsense.
“I think it’s very sexist. I was like, ‘Okay, wait a second. Why do men get Walter Isaacson and I get this trick?’ Know?” he said, referring to the esteemed author whose work includes deep dives into Apple visionary Steve Jobs and controversial tech titan Elon Musk.