14 DAY TRIAL // Actress Gwyneth Paltrow has just put out her first cookbook: it’s called “My Father’s Daughter” and she’s now promoting it. Gwyneth is also using this opportunity to offer fans a closer look at her life at home, where the cameras are never present.
Though she has quite a reputation of an ice queen, Gwyneth is doing her best to prove she’s exactly the contrary of that: she’s actually a homebody, a family woman who loves to cook for her children and husband, a foodie and a very down to earth person.
The star recently sat down with the Daily Mail to talk about what inspired her to turn author of cookbooks, how cooking helped her deal with the pain of losing her father, to whom she was very close, to cancer, and how her greatest joy in life implies both food and her family.
Somewhat surprisingly, Paltrow reveals that she too loves pizza and fish fingers, the only difference being that she makes the latter at home, when she has the time.
“I make a batch and freeze them. But I think the main thing for mothers is to not stress yourself out. I honestly think that even ordering a pizza and sitting down together as a family is great,” the star says.
“You’re not always going to have time to cook a meal from scratch. What I do at the weekend is make batches of stuff for the week, such as vegetarian chilli and spaghetti with meatballs,” Paltrow explains.
“You can make a really delicious pasta or grill a chicken breast in ten minutes. We don’t have family dinners every night. When we’re in London, sometimes I’ll go out with friends or with Chris, but we always have a family dinner on Sunday night,” Gwyneth adds.
When that happens, she’s usually the cook because her hubby will not go anywhere near the kitchen. In that sense, and in the sense that she’s always doing stuff around the house, working for her family, Paltrow sees herself as a 1950s wife.
She’s a 1950s wife with an option to go to work or be more family focused, as she puts it.
‘I am traditional in a 1950s housewife way – cooking, making sure everyone’s fed and everything’s in order. I think a wife has a responsibility to make a home and to protect the family,” she says, adding that women (wives, that is) have a right to choose whether they want to pursue a career as well or not.
For the full interview, see the Daily Mail piece here.