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Telegraph
29-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
How to do ‘boyfriend breakfast' like Gwyneth Paltrow (tops optional)
It's a question that plagues Reddit forums and troubles the minds of more women than Camille Paglia might wish: should you make your husband / partner breakfast? If you're a Trad Wife, the correct answer is, clearly, a resounding 'yes'. If you're an Oscar-winning actress with a multimillion dollar lifestyle and wellness empire, however, the answer is clearly… also 'yes'. Gwyneth Paltrow – net worth: $200 million – has been espousing the virtues of the 'boyfriend breakfast' since 2022, when she revealed to her 8.8 million Instagram followers that she likes to cook them for her husband, Brad Falchuk. 'When Brad was just my boyfriend, I started a tradition of making him breakfast every Saturday morning,' she wrote. 'Coming up with surprising menus, the prepping and cooking was a way for me to disconnect with the other stresses of my life and direct my focus on my boyfriend. It became this very special moment for us. They are called #boyfriend breakfasts to this day.' On Father's Day, she made the moment even more special by cooking Falchuk's breakfast topless, posting a video to Instagram of her slaving over a hot stove in nothing but a pair of boxer shorts. One can only hope the oil from her Tuscan sausages didn't splash. Unsurprisingly, Paltrow's boyfriend breakfasts have provoked a backlash, not helped by an article on her lifestyle website, Goop, revealing that she doesn't always eat the breakfast she cooks, preferring to fast in the mornings while Brad tucks into his gluten-free egg soldiers with organic avo and some crispy martyrdom on the side. But Paltrow had an answer for those critics accusing her of setting back feminism to the 1950s. 'What's actually anti-feminist, at this point, is prescribing what feminism is – including looking down on domesticity,' she responded. 'For me, it's not anti-feminist to serve; it's an act of service that's about seeing the other person and understanding their needs. It brings a particular energy and intimacy to a relationship. Cooking is also, for me – and I think many type A people – relaxing and grounding. Embracing something so traditionally feminine and old-fashioned balances the hard-driving, work side of myself.' From her marble-top kitchen in Montecito, Meghan Markle was clearly taking notes. Four years later, she'd take Paltrow's words and make an eight- part Netflix documentary out of them. No doubt her Notes app is open once more – for Paltrow has just released another wheeze. Not content with giving us the #boyfriendbreakfast, she's now intent on dressing the world in 'boyfriend breakfast style'. For heaven forfend you cook his eggs in an M&S nightie and a bobbled dressing gown. Just as the world was tiring of TikTok-friendly microtrends like 'mob wife' and 'coastal grandma', Paltrow is proposing another one. 'You asked, we answered', she recently posted on Goop's Facebook page. 'The boyfriend breakfast shop: easy shirtdresses, boxer shorts and pj sets inspired by Gwyneth.' Although strictly speaking, surely they were inspired by Brad, since the items in question (which are currently being sold on seem to be comprised of oversized shirts and stripy boxer shorts – garments you may find familiar if you happen to have a teenaged daughter, who has likely been plundering her dad's wardrobe for the same items for years. This is Paltrow's trick: putting her own spin on items we already own, then elevating them by recasting them in her own image. It's hard to reach midlife without acquiring at least one oversized shirt, while the high street is currently groaning with stripy boxer shorts, all of which cost considerably less than the $175 'Shorty' boxer Paltrow is selling under her own brand, G. Label. But none of this will deter her fans. They're buying into a lifestyle. No matter that they're in Morecambe: by purchasing her $325 'Teddy' shorts, they'll feel bathed in the benevolent glow of a Montecito sunrise. G. Label Teddy short, $325, Goop G. Label Shorty boxer, $175, Goop In an era where the word 'storytelling' is bandied about too frequently, Paltrow is a masterclass in how to do it well. 'She offers a regular and stylised window into her personal life which is aspirational but attainable,' notes Sara McCorquodale, founder influencer insights agency, Corq. 'That's not to say it isn't idealised – everything about Paltrow and Goop is elevated – but the concept of a relaxed Saturday morning making breakfast is not out of reach. On a deeper level, Paltrow's boyfriend breakfast concept points to something that is highly inspirational to many people: finding love and new traditions with a new partner post-divorce. It's a lifestyle concept about having a nice breakfast, but in a bigger sense it's about getting the extremely pleasant life that you always wanted.' While it's a sexist cliché to pit Paltrow and the Duchess of Sussex against each other, it's hard not to conclude that the latter has tried to follow Paltrow's playbook. Few could blame her. Paltrow is the Martha Stewart of her day, with added Hollywood cachet to boot. But while she might have the privilege and platform, that doesn't mean what she has achieved is easy, even if she makes it seem so. Just as she's at the vanguard of ' quiet luxury ', she's a dab hand at 'quiet marketing'. 'She's been relatively slow to commercialise her boyfriend breakfast concept, which has had millions of views and now has an invested audience grown over several years,' notes McCorquodale. 'Many celebrities would have capitalised on this much faster and more aggressively through books and even a podcast, but in doing so they would have risked making it seem contrived. Paltrow has wisely launched products linked to her boyfriend breakfast concept at a time when there is a definite, positive audience. Very few stars are able to sell products to their followers without some kind of backlash. The parasocial Instagram environment means negative sentiment can quickly snowball.' With a £300 million business under her belt and G. Label growing at an estimated 42 per cent year over year, Paltrow is owning the lifestyle and wellness space, yet is still careful to appear humble, a quality that people seem to require more of female entrepreneurs than males, as she knows only too well. When she was a guest on the podcast Aspire With Emma Grede last month, Paltrow spoke honestly about her failures as a CEO, the role she's held at Goop since 2016. 'It's important to admit defeat early. If it's not working, let it go, [because] it doesn't get better.' Wise words that more should heed. Cute co-ords to buy
News.com.au
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter calls out Oscar winner for going topless on Instagram
Apple Martin cheekily reacted to her mom, Gwyneth Paltrow, ditching her top to cook a 'boyfriend breakfast' while countryside in Italy. 'Did I steal your shirt by accident or …,' the 21-year-old wrote in the comment section of an Instagram video of the actress standing over a stovetop wearing nothing but white pajama pants on Saturday. The Goop founder, 52, was amused by the model's response, writing back with a laughing emoji. The clip showed Paltrow, who shares Apple and son Moses, 19, with her ex-husband, Chris Martin, whipping up a high-protein meal on a skillet. She was seen with her back facing the camera as she cooked sausage, cherry tomatoes, white beans and eggs. Eventually, the actress put on a top as she flipped the camera toward her. At the end, Paltrow indulged in her meal while enjoying the countryside. 'This was a Tuscan inspired high protein #boyfriendbreakfast skillet,' the businesswoman captioned the clip. Several fans swooned over the lifestyle guru, including actress Jennifer Garner, who quipped, 'Can I be your boyfriend?' 'You are a vibe,' another chimed in, as a third added, 'Lil dangerous to be cooking with no shirt on.' Paltrow often shares videos of herself whipping up meals. In March, she posted a makeup-free video of herself cooking breakfast and drinking coffee. At the time, critics assumed she was poking fun at Meghan Markle's new Netflix lifestyle series, With Love, Meghan. The pals, however, squashed the rumours with a cheeky video of themselves eating pie together. Paltrow's social media cooking series has featured glimpses of her diet since she and her husband, Brad Falchuk, ditched the Paleo diet after she became 'obsessed with eating very, very healthily.' The Shakespeare in Love star told her Goop Podcast listeners in April that she was slowly indulging more in breads and pasta.
The Sun
15-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Gwyneth Paltrow puts on a very cheeky display as she cooks topless and serves up a ‘boyfriend breakfast'
GWYNETH Paltrow has put on a very cheeky display while cooking topless, to serve up a 'boyfriend breakfast.' The Hollywood actress, 52, penned to fans: 'This was a Tuscan inspired high protein #boyfriendbreakfast skillet with sausage from the local butcher, white beans, spinach, cherry tomatoes and of course eggs.' 4 4 And she could be seen in the clip without her top on cooking over the stove, while in some white pyjama shorts and slippers. Gwyneth had her hair pulled back into a plait, and she cooked to the soundtrack of Starfish And Coffee. The rest of the clip saw the star showing off the various ingredients she was using for her breakfast. As she continues cooking and enjoying a coffee, Gwyneth decides to put her pyjama top back on. Fans were loving the clip, as one person penned: 'love it! thanks for your light,' while another said: 'Very cheeky, love it.' Someone else penned: 'Yum! Food looks good too.' But not everyone was impressed with the topless scene, with some of the star's followers saying it was 'dangerous' to be cooking like that. 'Lil dangerous to be cooking with no shirt on, wow 😮this is rich people faking life,' one person wrote. Someone else said: 'Anything for attention.' Meghan Markle and Gwyneth Paltrow appear TOGETHER in Insta video as pair deny rivalry & 'war to be US lifestyle queen' But Gwyneth is no stranger to ditching her clothes on social media, and it's somewhat of an annual tradition for Gwyneth to pose naked on her birthday. In 2021 she celebrated her 49th birthday by sharing a picture of herself in the bath, and the year before, she ran free and showed off her naturist tendencies, prancing around in the woods. Never missing an opportunity to plug her own brand, She wrote: "In nothing but my birthday suit today... thank you all so much for the birthday wishes and thank you to @goop's insanely amazing brand new body butter for making me think I can still get my kit off." Then in 2022, Gwyneth marked her 50th by spraying herself in metallic gold body paint for a Goldfinger-inspired photoshoot. Her cooking clip comes after the 52-year-old admitted to having 'a lot of sex' with Timothee Chalamet, in an upcoming movie she stars in. Marty Supreme is the movie that the pair star in, with the film due out this December. The flick is an upcoming American sports adventure comedy-drama, that sees Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, as he "goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness." Speaking to Vanity Fair, Gwyneth has opened up about working with Timothee and how they had "a lot of sex" on set of the new movie. "I mean, we have a lot of sex in this movie … there's a lot — a lot," she spilled. The interviewer then presse,: "So… you're in a lot of vulnerable positions with him?" Gwyneth then responded, "Beyond."
