Gwyneth Paltrow: I've started eating bread and pasta again

Telegraph

23-04-2025

Gwyneth Paltrow has revealed she has relaxed her once super-strict paleo diet and is eating bread and pasta again.
For a number of years Paltrow, 52, adhered to a high-protein, low-carb regime – which supporters say has a range of health benefits including improved cholesterol and lower blood pressure.
Now the lifestyle guru, whose movies include Shakespeare in Love, The Talented Mr Ripley, The Royal Tenenbaums and Shallow Hal, has said she and her husband, television producer Brad Falchuk, 54, have broadened their culinary horizons.
Speaking this week on her Goop podcast, she said: 'I went into hardcore macrobiotic for a certain time, that was an interesting chapter where I got obsessed with eating very, very healthily.'
She added: 'I was just so amazed that we had this power in our hands that if we treated ourselves well and hydrated and ate whole foods that we could just feel so much better. I was sort of intoxicated by that idea and I still feel that way to this day.'
Although she admitted that she was now 'a little bit sick of it, if I'm honest'.
Paltrow, who has two children, has been posting images on social media showing meals of pizza and burgers.
'I'm getting back into eating sourdough bread, cheese – there I said it. A little pasta after being strict with it for so long,' she said.
'But again I think it's a good template, eating foods that are as whole and fresh as possible. I don't think there are any doctor or nutritionist that would refute that.'
In the episode, Paltrow who was married to Coldplay's Chris Martin from 2003 to 2016, talks about her experiences with food and its role in relationships, including those with a person's family.
'As I sit down to record this, I am in preparation for big Easter brunch, and so I started taking note about how much joy I was feeling with this upcoming holiday and gathering,' she says.
'It filled me with so much joy to think about everybody coming together and bringing their children…We need those social connections, and so often, at the epicentre of those things, those meaningful moments, is food.'
She explained that for many years her diet was 'lots of fish, vegetables, rice, no dairy, no sugar etcetera. I think that period of time I might have got a little didactical about it'.