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Paltrow had a much-publicized romance and engagement to Brad Pitt and was also once linked romantically to Ben Affleck, Luke Wilson and Robert Sean Leonard. She later stated that she regretted breaking up with Pitt. In an interview with Barbara Walters she stated that she wished Pitt well and could not believe he was with her when she was "such a mess." They were together for over three years.
On December 5, 2003, she married Chris Martin of the British rock group Coldplay in a secret wedding ceremony in Southern California. Paltrow gave birth to their first child, Apple Blythe Alison Martin, on May 14, 2004, in London. She explained the unusual first name on Oprah, saying,
“It sounded so sweet and it conjured such a lovely picture for me – you know,
apples are so sweet and they're wholesome and it's biblical – and I just thought
it sounded so lovely and...clean! And I just thought, "Perfect!"”
Gwyneth Paltrow at press conference for The Talented Mr Ripley in
2000, photo by Michael WeinerIn January 2006 Paltrow announced that, "Since my
daughter came along, I've not worked much through choice. And with another baby
on its way, I don't think I will be doing a lot for the next year or so
either."
Her second child, Moses Bruce Anthony Martin, was born on April 8, 2006, by caesarean section in New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital. Her son's first name can be explained by the song that her husband wrote for her shortly before their secret wedding, called "Moses." It includes the words "Like Moses has the power of the sea, so you've got power over me..." and is about the moment when Martin met Paltrow.
In May of 2005, she publicly announced that she suffered from depression after the death of her father Bruce Paltrow. She practices yoga, and is a vegan as well as following a macrobiotic diet, although she told People in 2005 that, "I'm not as stringent as I was in the past. Now I'll have cheese once in a while or white flour, but I still believe in whole grains and no sugar."
She is a good friend of Christina Applegate, Madonna, and fashion designers Valentino and Stella McCartney. Steven Spielberg is a close family friend. She was best friends with Winona Ryder until her breakup with Brad Pitt.
Breast cancer
activist
Paltrow is supporting Breast Cancer
Research.
Estee Lauder has introduced the 'Pleasures Gwyneth Paltrow' collection which is part of the company's Estée Lauder fragrance line. Estée Lauder will be donating a minimum of $500,000 from sales of items in this collection for breast cancer research.[citation needed]
Trivia
Paltrow had a stalker
in 1999 and 2000 named Dante Michael Siou, who allegedly sent five to ten
packages a week: everything from love notes, flowers and candy to religious
tracts, pornography, dozens of letters a week, and over 1,200 emails. He also
made a threat of a sexual nature and showed up repeatedly at her house, even
after her mother, Blythe Danner warned him not to return. He persisted despite
being warned by the FBI and was sentenced to several years in a mental
institution.
She is briefly featured in Madonna's Re-Invention Tour documentary I'm Going
To Tell You A Secret, meeting Madonna after a concert in New York
According to documents filed with the Federal Election Commission,
Gwyneth Paltrow contributed $1,500 to John Kerry's campaign for President in
2004, and also contributed $2,000 to EMILY's List and $2,500 to the Democratic
Senatorial Campaign Committee. The FEC documents also list her home address as
being in New York City, though the actress lives in London.
In
preparation for the movie Shallow Hal, she wore the same latex "fat suit" used
during filming, and went out to a bar to gauge people's reactions. She reported
that people refused to even make eye contact with her, and treated her quite
rudely. She later said that she was saddened by the injustice and double
standard overweight people faced.
Film critic and commentator John
Podhoretz knew Paltrow before she became famous — in fact, before she became an
adult: "I babysat for her once in 1978 and she was very sweet," he
wrote.
Pundit Stephen Colbert has implied that her head is currently
being stored in a box on his shelf in a segment parody of Se7en.
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