Gwyneth Paltrow, the unofficially retired actress and mogul who has been famous since birth, is sick of the mortifying ordeal of being known.
Speaking to Bustle of her eventual plans after she sells her wellness company, Goop, one day, the 51-year-old Glee alum quoted September’s 2005 hit song Cry for You (You’ll Never See Me Again) almost lyric for lyric.
“I will literally disappear from public life,” Paltrow told the publication. “No-one will ever see me again.”
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Luckily, for select Australians, the day Paltrow vanishes from the spotlight is not coming any time soon.
Paltrow will be seen in the flesh in late October, with the Hollywood star set to travel to Sydney for a special ‘besties’ event with Jackie ‘O’ Henderson.
In the interim, the Avengers star plans to continue to run Goop – despite setbacks such as a thwarted vagina chocolate line – for “a few more years” before selling the company and focusing mainly on spending time with her family.
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In 2018, Goop – which Paltrow founded in 2008 – was valued at $US250 million (approx. $395 million) by The New York Times.
She largely retired from acting following an appearance in Marvel‘s 2019 blockbuster Avengers: Endgame, and Netflix‘s 2019 comedy series The Politician – but that didn’t stop the daughter of actress Blythe Danner and director Bruce Paltrow from making headlines, with her ski collision trial being watched worldwide via livestream for eight whole days earlier this year.
Paltrow has already got a head start on part of her retirement plans, with the actress saying she’s currently helping her son and step-son apply for colleges, something she says is “a full-time job”.
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Paltrow shares 19-year-old daughter Apple and 17-year-old son Moses with her ex-husband Chris Martin of Coldplay, and is a step-mother to husband Brad Falchuk’s 19-year-old daughter Isabella and 17-year-old son Brody.
Apple is in her second year of college, with Paltrow declaring her daughter has had to grapple with the “judgment that exists around kids of famous people” while studying, though Apple – who Karl Lagerfeld predicted at the age of four would become a ‘Chanel girl’ and sat front row at Chanel’s 2023 Paris Fashion Week haute couture show – is “really just a student” who “wants to be a kid and be at school and learn.”
Paltrow said of her children: “I just hope that my children always feel free to pursue exactly what they want to do irrespective of what anybody’s going to think or say.”