Perhaps you've come across photos of Gwyneth Paltrow -- take her current cover of Harper's Bazaar, for instance -- and thought aloud, possibly between sips of a detoxifying rice milk smoothie: She's a 39-year-old with the golden mane and toned flanks of an enchanted pony! She has an Oscar! She gets Mario Batali to make her dinner! She's convinced the world she's a sensational singer/rapper! And, through it all, she's a married mother of two. O Gwyneth, who art in Hampstead: WHAT IS THE SECRET TO DOMESTIC HAPPINESS?!
It's simple. As Paltrow told Harper's Bazaar, if you want a happy home life, play the '50s housewife. (Ed note: goofy rhyme scheme Dose's own. Feel free to cross-stitch it on a swatch of hemp or linen lying about the pied-a-terre.)
Busy as she is, Paltrow told the magazine that she's chosen to scale back her career, letting her husband, Coldplay's Chris Martin, bring home the ethically farmed bacon, so to speak.
"I have little kids in school," said Paltrow. (Her children, Apple and Moses, are 7 and 5.) "I want to maintain my marriage and my family, so I have to be here when he comes home."
Mind you, Coldplay's on the road for three-week stints at a time, so that would hardly suggest Paltrow's slaving over her blender, making sure there's a fresh tumbler of kale juice awaiting his return every night. And besides, who can say how a couple of international superstars should manage their household?
Who can say how ANYONE should?
Oh, sorry. Gwyneth Paltrow seems to have an opinion on that one. She told Harper's Bazaar that she's instructed her close friends to follow her example. (GOOP Newsletter forthcoming?)
Sharing an anecdote about advising an unnamed celebrity friend, Paltrow shared this inadvertent blind item: "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."
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