Gwyneth Paltrow Is supported by one of its most controversial GOOP products creations – the candle “it smells like my vagina”.
Asked about the product, which was unveiled via its lifestyle website in 2020, during an appearance at the top of the Mindvalley 2025 manifesto in Los Angeles on Saturday May 17, Paltrow discussed the negative attention it attracted.
“You know, this product is so fascinating,” said the actress, 52, as captured in a Instagram Video published by the official summit account on Sunday May 18. “It took us a long time to live this one, but I kept it on the site because there is an aspect of the sexuality of women that I think … We are socialized to feel a lot of shame. And I have somewhat adored this kind of Punk Rock idea.”
Paltrow concluded: “We are beautiful and we are great and let’s go.”
In Goop, do we trust? Gwyneth Paltrow has courted the controversy since he launched his well-being and lifestyle brand, Goop, in 2008. Which started as a weekly newsletter from the author of the clean plate, has become a vast website that has given birth to other projects, among other well-being products, recipes, podcast, magazine and health. “We operate from […]
The product, which sparked its own 2022 Derived candle Entitled “Hands Off My Vagin”, nodding in reproductive freedom, was initially launched in a quest to empower the female fans of the website.
Paltrow said US Weekly In September 2020, “you grew up by putting messages around female care that was strongly scented with a synthetic fragrance and all this kind of thing. I just had the impression that it was time to make a little feminist declaration on the acceptance of who we are and our femininity.”
She added at the time: “I have the impression that once people have exceeded the initial shock and you really start to unpack what it means and what it says is pretty cool.”
Paltrow’s weekend discussion also revised how the product is from the Shakespeare in love The actress said to the guests: “We played one day with different perfumes and I felt something and I said to myself:” Oh, it smells like … “, you know,” she explained.
“I was joking. And then [Douglas Little, Heretic perfumer and Goop collaborator] It was like, “oh, we should make a candle and put it on the site,” continued Paltrow.
Paltrow has never moved away from the societal limits of buckling, recently revealing that his two children, his daughter Apple, 21, and his son, Moses, 19, appreciate the path They were raised. (Paltrow shares the two children with ex-husband Chris Martin And she got married Brad Falchuk in 2018.)
“They are very proud of the iconoclastic approach that we have adopted in the past,” said Paltrow AND! News In an article published on Monday, May 12. “Looking back, there are always things we wrote on [at Goop] Where people were like: “Oh my God, what is it?” And now they are so common. My children are really proud of the fact that we are always somehow first in this space. »»
