Gwyneth Explains Her Recent Need To Look Like A Hooker: 'I'm The Worst Actress Ever'
Posted by Molly Friedman at 8:55 AM on April 29, 2008
Gwyneth Paltrow has finally explained what recently inspired her to drastically change her uptight, ladylike English countryside demeanour into that of a high-class hooker using flashy props like kinky boots and see-through ass-grazing dresses. You know that standard awkward adolescent phase girls go through in middle school when they start painting on their mom's lipstick and wearing mini-skirts so the boys will notice them? Well, according to a recent interview with British GQ, Gwyneth is officially going through that phase right now: "Paltrow admits she suffers from a lack of confidence...she is desperate to change her public image...'People think I'm aloof, or cold, or that I breathe rarefied air - that's not me'." So what exactly turned the former It Girl into a Debbie Downer?

Post-pregnancy depression isn't to blame for her suddenly slutty new image, nor are rifts in her marriage to Chris Martin. Not even regret over naming her kids after fruits and religious leaders led her to this female version of a mid-life crisis. The reason? Paltrow only recently realised something the rest of the world has known for quite some time: "People came over to watch me in the film Emma and I was like, 'Oh. My. God. I'm the worst actress ever.'" But Gwyneth really shouldn't be that hard on herself. Sure, she won an Oscar for weeping in a rowboat, and can certainly provoke emotion from us in varied performances (mainly discomfort and the need to squirm in our seats whenever she begins to fake-cry), but she should at least treat herself to a viewing of that stripper movie Lindsay Lohan won a Razzie for. That way she can safely remove that "ever" from her pity-me quotes in the future.
[Photo credit: Faded Youth]
- GWYNETH PALTROW DOES 'GQ' [Faded Youth]

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Assistant/Atlas
Posted 9:55 AM 29/4/08
If this is slutty, then what the hell have Lindsay and Paris been doing? Is there even a word for it?
Superhussies? Whore-riffic? Promisicutastic? Sperm receptacle?
All I know is that this may be the first time that I've wanted to stand up and applaud this woman--in my pants.
Assistant/Atlas
gwendemarco
Posted 9:47 AM 29/4/08
As warm and fuzzy as an Alberta Clipper.
gwendemarco
Shumina
Posted 9:44 AM 29/4/08
So instead of boning up on her craft she's going for sexing up her image? I dunno...I just can't forgive her "I hate America" phase, no matter how sexy she pretends to be.
Shumina
bess marvin, girl detective
Posted 9:32 AM 29/4/08
in addition, i'm glad that she's come around to see what the world really thinks of her and her "craft" (the royal tenenbaums withholding). if only, more actors were more aware about the terrible movies hey put into the mainstream.
bess marvin, girl detective
bess marvin, girl detective
Posted 9:24 AM 29/4/08
at first, i thought she was one of those life-life dolls. *shudder*
bess marvin, girl detective
Leviticus_71
Posted 9:07 AM 29/4/08
Neutral colored garters? Gross. Hey Gwyneth, try control top lady hose. Even more sterile and un - hot! Is it just me or does everyone need their slutty images to include a little more raunch? Make me feel dirty for just looking...
Leviticus_71
PaisleyPajamas
Posted 10:30 AM 29/4/08
Well, according to a recent interview with British GQ, Gwyneth is officially going through that phase right now:
The I-just-realized-how-friggin'-powerful-my-dad-was-when-he-was-alive-
and-got-me-all-those-feature-film-roles-with-a-phone-call phase.
PaisleyPajamas
heidiho
Posted 10:51 AM 29/4/08
@Decebal: Word. All that was missing was a ski mask when she stole that Oscar.
heidiho
WasatchMan
Posted 10:50 AM 29/4/08
Remember the old Conan O'Brien bit where Paltrow "confessed" to being a man disguised as a woman, and apologized to all the men who had masturbated to her? I guess those writers were onto something.
WasatchMan
Decebal
Posted 10:47 AM 29/4/08
I still think that Cate Blanchett was robbed of her Oscar by Gwin here, but still I have to give her props for VIEW FROM THE TOP. It was the cutest movie ever.
Well that's how it looked while I rocked back and forth and told myself, that tomorrow is worth waiting for.
Decebal
pkittie
Posted 11:44 AM 29/4/08
@Assistant/Atlas:
I believe the term is "Turbo Whore", courtesy of the Pajibans.
pkittie
Old No.7
Posted 11:51 AM 29/4/08
Reminds me of my ancient youth, when I would spend days in the bathroom after the Sears catalog arrived in the mail.
Old No.7
VakeroRokero
Posted 11:50 AM 29/4/08
I'm glad she's not under the industry control anymore. Once they fit you into a mold, they expect you to never grow up. This will only make her life better. and stop that "rich-new-yorker-Designer-water-drinker that everyone expect stars to be like. The only guys that actually are like that are rappers.
VakeroRokero
undiepoo
Posted 12:43 PM 29/4/08
Maybe she should just stop saying things like 'rarified air.'
undiepoo
MissFiFi
Posted 1:57 PM 29/4/08
@Decebal: SHE SO ROBBED CATE! Gwennie did not look like a man in that Shakespeare in Love crap,so lame.
She may be a nice gal, but you know what? At least now she looks like the Upper East Side whore she could have been.
Godspeed my dear Gwen,Godspeed
MissFiFi
gwendolyn
Posted 1:54 PM 29/4/08
While I 'get' the K. Heigl hate and the LiLo involuntary cringing people experience when they see her looking like Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and the pity/schaudenfreude (SP) that overcomes one upon reading one of Courtney Love's bLoighy eTREEES, I have never understood the intense dislike of Mrs. Chris Martin.
But, then, I have adored Cybill Shepherd since she was a Cover Girl model...
Go figure.
gwendolyn
Little Mintz Sunshine
Posted 1:33 PM 29/4/08
Aside from her representing everything bad about about the type of shitty, talentless, badly trained actor Hollywood loves to embrace, I don't dislike her. She's probably really needy and gives great birthday presents just so's you'd like her. But, it is really hard when you watch every role she's in and say "Yeah, Blythe would have totally nailed that..."
Little Mintz Sunshine
BluntObjects
Posted 2:55 PM 29/4/08
Now all we need is for Tina Fey to admit she's the most unfunny human being ever and we'll have even more booshiat out of the way.
BluntObjects
Desk_hack
Posted 4:30 PM 29/4/08
Thanks, GP. The yawn that your photos produced totally helped my TMJ.
Desk_hack
OldTowneTavern
Posted 4:53 PM 29/4/08
She was great in Flesh and Bone, and Sylvia. And she was the only good thing about Emma (good acting, terrible adaptation). But, no, her work in Shakespeare in Love wasn't much of anything really. Still...
Team Gwyneth.
OldTowneTavern
raincoaster
Posted 6:13 PM 29/4/08
@gwendolyn: She keeps telling the Americans that she loves America, it's just full of people who are inferior to Brits. She is a nasty, cold human being. She can act when she's had a hot meal and a vitamin, though.
But "I can't act and that's why I look like I am a whorish meat puppet"? I am perfectly willing to take her word for that.
raincoaster
LittleMissPartlyCloudy
Posted 8:44 PM 29/4/08
@BluntObjects: Spot on chap.
LittleMissPartlyCloudy
DexterRiley
Posted 10:20 PM 29/4/08
@Shumina:
Exactly -- audiences' total indifference to her started that day.
And no matter how many slutty outfits she puts on, she still exudes all the eroticism of a dime store dummy. Her eyes are dead, man.
DexterRiley
skahammer
Posted 12:08 AM 30/4/08
I feel for her. I knew girls who were uptight like this -- without the fame, of course -- and they always impressed me as decent people who just never learned how to shut out judgments from the outside world.
Which must be ten times harder for an actress to do. My only suggestion is a Buddhist retreat with Richard Gere.
skahammer
Benovite
Posted 2:10 AM 30/4/08
See to me she is the total opposite of someone like say, Katherin "Goon" Heigl.
Gwyneth > Katherine
Benovite
gwendolyn
Posted 1:57 AM 30/4/08
@skahammer: I do hope she is deriving joy raising from her children because I just don't see her as a crazee mom like Courtney Love and I certainly think she is as talented as most of the TV 'actors' I see during the week.
And it sure looks like enough people can't stand her that sustaining her career may really be a struggle.
gwendolyn
juniperjenny
Posted 3:50 AM 30/4/08
I really don't get the Gwyneth hatred. It seems like it's kind of a class issue, if you look over the comments. Just sayin'. She's not fantastic at picking films, but I think she's gorgeous and really quite talented. And she seems perfectly nice to me.
juniperjenny
Benovite
Posted 5:21 AM 30/4/08
She seems very cute and humble to me, unlike a typical actor/celebrity.
That's why she's despised.
Benovite
sookie
Posted 11:19 AM 30/4/08
@PaisleyPajamas: is your hidden talent mind reading, because i was thinking the same thought. well said Paisley, well said.
on a positive note, ms paltrow did a good job recently at a fund raiser for feeding nyc's hungry. maybe she should focus on philanthropy and forget about being an actress. after all she's won an academy award, what more does she need to prove to herself.
sookie
sookie
Posted 11:13 AM 30/4/08
@bess marvin, girl detective: ditto
sookie
mrtrailsafety
Posted 8:13 AM 1/5/08
@Shumina: "boning up on her craft". I'll buy that!
mrtrailsafety
jillomama
Posted 11:37 AM 1/5/08
oh...and you should get a better photographer; try Joanne Savio in NYC;)
jillomama
jillomama
Posted 11:35 AM 1/5/08
lots of misogyny here, folks.
i thought ms. paltrow was great in EMMA...being a tomboy always comes with jealousy; don't give up your self-confidence so easily. your vulnerability in S.I.L. was magical. Screw...rather, don't...the critics.
jillomama
Shumina
Posted 5:17 AM 2/5/08
@mrtrailsafety: Figured somebody'd get it.
@juniperjenny: You're right. It's a class issue. She doesn't have any. Read up on her quotes from around the time she moved to England.
Shumina