Gwyneth Paltrow has swerved the chance to give a verdict on Meghan MarkleThe lifestyle brand in a large seated interview, but it left a clue to the way it sees the duchess.
The star of the A list sat with Vanity For an interview with the cover and was questioned about the Duchess of Sussex, which has just undergone a wave of negative criticisms for its kitchen fair With love, Meghan.
THE Netflix The series has a link with the Meghan online store like never before, which sells lifestyle products such as candles and jam and was compared to the GOOP brand in Paltrow.
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“I don’t know Meghan and Harry,” Paltrow told the magazine. “I mean, I met Meghan, who seems really adorable, but I don’t know her at all.”
And in an apparently ironic game, she added: “Maybe I will try to go through their security details and bring them a pie.”
Paltrow was not hostile to Meghan, however, and in fact suggested a desire to defend it, saying that “there is noise on certain women in culture, I always have a strong instinct to defend them”.
She said that she had not seen the Netflix program and made no comments on the success of Meghan’s new management: “I was raised to see other women like friends, not enemies.
“I think there is always more than enough to go around. Everyone deserves an attempt at everything they want to try.”
Beyond his lifestyle brand, Meghan also launched a podcast, Confessions of a founding womanDue to the air on Lemonada Media on April 8.
And Paltrow almost seemed to suggest that Meghan could have approached her to be a guest.
Meghan’s recent change of brand has been widely described as an attempt to become the next Martha Stewart, who took a hit in Paltrow in 2014, saying: “She is a movie star. If she had confidence in her game, she would not try to be Martha Stewart.”
Paltrow said: “And then you have someone like Oprah, it’s like,” of course, I will be your first guest of Podcast. “This is how I try to be with other women.”
Although he is not completely clear if Paltrow really knows that Meghan has a podcast, the actress would certainly be an appropriate guest in a program on female bosses as the founder of Goop.
And the duchess could do with all the help it can get after the first criticisms of With love, Meghan were scathing among the progressive American publications as well as the British press.
Jack Royston is the royal chief correspondent for Nowsweekbased in London. You can find it on X, formerly Twitterhas @jack_royston And read her stories on Newsweek The Royals Facebook page.
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