In March, Gwyneth Paltrow posed in a red Stella McCartney bikini on the cover of Women’s Health magazine – and looked sensational. I’ve always been a Gwynnie groupie and, after that, I thought it was time to see if living like her for a month would make me both feel and look like the same picture of health. Was it humanly possible?
It would mean following the ‘wellness’ website Goop, launched almost a decade ago at the kitchen table of the Hollywood star and mother-of-two, who turned 45 last week. It has since turned into a phenomenon, and a notoriously controversial one at that.
Barely a month goes by without some new, bizarre health or ‘wellness’ advice being issued by Goop, sparking headlines and sometimes fierce debate. There’s cupping, crystal healing, aura photographs, infrared saunas, earthing (walking barefoot), consulting shamans and intravenous infusions. And ingesting a plethora of detoxing smoothies infused with powders, herbal ‘dusts’, and fungi is all Gwynnie-approved.
