Goop is coming to TV. We must be reaching peak Paltrow

Goop, the equally lauded and lampooned lifestyle and wellness enterprise founded a decade ago by actor Gwyneth Paltrow, is expanding its empire with a new Netflix docu-series.
The as-yet-untitled series, set to air in late 2019, will follow the Oscar-winning mum-of-two as she works with the websiteâs editors and content creators working with experts to tackle subjects around womenâs physical, mental and spiritual health.
The move is just the latest expansion for Paltrow, 46, and her team, whose Goop podcast â featuring conversations with experts and celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey â has just nailed an exclusive partnership with Delta Air Lines.
Throw in best-selling healthy cookbooks, Goopâs own magazine publishing imprint, pop-up shops, product lines and a $US650-$US2000 ($920-$2825) a ticket summit series featuring a vegan shoe pop-up, gluten-free desserts, chakra-cleansing and the starâs famous friends like Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Miranda Kerr as speakers, and it would seem we have reached the age of peak Paltrow.
The challenge of making super clean recipes incredibly delicious comes to fruition on January 8th with the release of the clean plate! Pre-order now: https://t.co/R0fKV0ofAB pic.twitter.com/i2Z46Zg3fB
â Gwyneth Paltrow (@GwynethPaltrow) December 29, 2018
While the tremendous success of Netflixâs Tidying Up With Marie Kondo has shown a hunger in the market for how-to-live TV programming, Paltrowâs guide to a better life goes well beyond closet cleaning and clever folding â often with controversial results.
The siteâs lifestyle recommendations include âgroundingâ â the website claims walking barefoot could cure insomnia and depression â and âvaginal steamingâ, which has been debunked by some doctors as dangerous.
In 2018, the company had to pay $US145,000 ($205,000) in civil penalties after a California judge said that it was âmisleading advertisingâ to say that its jade eggs improved sexual health. It also got into trouble for claiming that healing stickers made of spacesuit material were endorsed by NASA.
Another Goop-endorsed must-have for the pampered bohemian includes Psychic Vampire Repellent (âSpray around the aura to protect from psychic attack and emotional harmâ reads the handy How to Use Guide).
The Goop Christmas gift guide has become an annual insight into how the cashed-up cool crowd intend to blow their loot.
Last year, the list included a subsection for the âRidiculous but Awesomeâ gifts including a $135 matchbox, $800 incense holder, $140 marble dumbbell and a village in Lugo, Spain, for $244,320.
âBe honest,â reads the copy. âThis is why youâre here in the first place.â
This self-referential nod to haters is partly what has helped Paltrow take Goop to the next level.
As a personality she knows sheâs polarising, from her over-the-top 1999 Oscar acceptance speech (for Shakespeare in Love) to her âconscious uncouplingâ from singer Chris Martin in 2014.
âI know itâs a dorky term, but itâs very worthwhile,â she told Net-a-Porterâs online magazine, The Edit, in 2017.
âIâm always the person who gets sât at first, but then later people say, âHey, maybe thatâs a good ideaâ. I donât mind.â
Her conversion to healthy eating after her father Bruce died in 1998 âwas the beginning of people thinking I was a crackpotâ, she told The Wall Street Journal in December.
âLike, âWhat do you mean food can affect your health, you fâing psycho?â I remember when I started doing yoga and people were like, âWhat is yoga? Sheâs a witch. Sheâs a freakâ.â
After being named the Worldâs Most Hated Celebrity by a tabloid magazine in 2013, Paltrow responded: âI remember being like: âReally? More than, like, Chris Brown?ââ in a 2016 BBC TV interview, referencing the rapper who famously beat up his then-girlfriend Rihanna.
âMe? Really? Wow. It was also the same week I was Peopleâs Most Beautiful Woman. For a minute I was like: âWait, I donât understand. Am I hated to the bone or am I the worldâs most beautiful?ââ
Right now, like it or not, Paltrow is among the worldâs most powerful.
With Goop âweâre doing something important. Weâre iconoclasts and trailblazersâ, she told Marie Claire in October.
âYou can love it or hate it, but weâre building something thatâs changing the world, and itâs irrefutable that the world is coming along with us.â
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