Gwyneth Paltrow has poked fun at a recent unauthorised biography of her life, joking that it reads like something generated by AI trawling through tabloid headlines.
The Oscar-winning actress and Goop founder, 52, makes the quip in a wide-ranging new interview with British Vogue, where she stars on the cover of the magazine’s November issue. Inside, she discusses her long-awaited return to the big screen, her business empire, and how life in her fifties has brought renewed perspective and peace.
Paltrow, who won her Academy Award for Shakespeare in Love in 1999, has spent much of the past decade focusing on Goop — the wellness and lifestyle brand she launched in 2008. The company has since grown into a multimillion-dollar business with its own product lines, podcast, and Netflix series, though it has often courted controversy for its unorthodox approach to health and wellbeing.
Speaking to the publication, Paltrow said her husband, TV writer and producer Brad Falchuk, had skimmed Gwyneth Paltrow: The Biography by Amy Odell and was unimpressed.
“So my husband flicked through it, just because I was like: ‘What is in this?’” she recalled. “He said, ‘It’s as if somebody put in a prompt in ChatGPT and said: mine every Daily Mail article and write a biography about Gwyneth Paltrow. It’s just bad. It’s really badly written.’”
Asked if she had read it herself, Paltrow replied: “Oh God no.” She added: “The stuff I saw in People magazine, and [other outlets that picked it up], it was all rubbish, the things that I supposedly said.”
Among the more surprising claims, she noted, was that she “invented ghosting.” Laughing, she said: “Oh, that is boss. I didn’t know that. Did I?”
Paltrow also touches on her next acting project — a forthcoming film with Wonka star Timothée Chalamet — and says returning to set after years of focusing on business has been “a joy.”
Reflecting on her fifties, she tells Vogue she finally feels settled. “There’s a calmness that comes with age,” she says. “I know what matters now — family, friendship, and doing things that feel authentic.”
The full feature appears in the November issue of British Vogue, available via digital download and on newsstands from October 21.
