{"id":2661,"date":"2009-03-09T15:50:38","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T15:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2009\/03\/gwyneth-paltrows-goop-celebri.html"},"modified":"2009-03-09T15:50:38","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T15:50:38","slug":"gwyneth-paltrows-goop-celebri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2009\/03\/gwyneth-paltrows-goop-celebri.html","title":{"rendered":"Gwyneth Paltrow&#8217;s GOOP&#8211;Celebrity Indulgence? Or Helpful Holistic Advice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Valerie Reiss<br \/>\nFresh Living<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/assets_c\/2009\/03\/gwyneth_600-thumb-250x137-3659.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><\/a>As part snarky native New Yorker, part spiritualish yogini, I can semi feel Gwyneth Paltrow&#8217;s pain from the media-whipping she&#8217;s gotten for <a href=\"http:\/\/goop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">GOOP<\/a>, her recent holistic lifestyle venture. Launched last September, GOOP (a name made from her initials) aims to educate about things like balance, yoga, healthy-but-tasty eating, detoxing, conscious parenting, and the like in a simple, from-the-heart way. Meaning, of course, she has been slammed by critics who seem to feast on the flesh of the sincerely seeking. A couple of weeks ago the New York Times explored the mocking in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/22\/fashion\/22gwyneth.html?_r=2&amp;scp=5&amp;sq=goop&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\">style section feature.<\/a><br \/>\nThough Paltrow wouldn&#8217;t comment for the article, the Times sited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/people\/2009-01-06-paltrow-goop_N.htm?csp=34\" target=\"_blank\">a USA Today quote<\/a> from her dissing the haters&#8217; hating: &#8220;&#8216;People get a hit of energy when they are negative about something. And they do not understand why they do not have a happy life.'&#8221; And then the Times jumped in with its own negativity bong hit: &#8220;It&#8217;s the kind of statement better left to a guru than an It Girl.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Read the rest of this post on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/03\/gwyneth-paltrows-goop.html\" target=\"_blank\">Beliefnet&#8217;s new blog Fresh Living.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Valerie Reiss Fresh Living As part snarky native New Yorker, part spiritualish yogini, I can semi feel Gwyneth Paltrow&#8217;s pain from the media-whipping she&#8217;s gotten for GOOP, her recent holistic lifestyle venture. 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