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I made a pact with myself that I'd rather have less money than be embarrassed.

Gwyneth Paltrow

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Gwyneth Paltrow
Age: 51
Born: 1972
Born: September 27
Actress
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Musician
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Stage Actor
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Television Producer
LA
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Gwyneth Kate Paltrow
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I do 45 minutes of cardio five days a week, because I like to eat. I also try for 45 minutes of muscular structure work, which is toning, realigning and lengthening. If I'm prepping for something or I've been eating a lot of pie, I do two hours a day, six days a week for two weeks.
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Could I use some butter and cheese and eggs in my cooking without going down some kind of hippie shame spiral? Yes. Of course I could.
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I don't want to be rich and I don't want to be famous.
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I think that women, especially women in my job, come to me because they know I'm very loving and nonjudgmental and I'm not competitive, and I've been through a lot.
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I'm very, very lucky in that I have a partner who is willing to do it with me in a really collaborative way. Fortunately, even though we couldn't stay in a romantic relationship, our values are very much around the importance of family and the importance of those relationships.
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It's so much easier to sit home and not exercise and criticize other people. What I love is inspiring people. People come up to me and say, 'I want to have two kids and wear a bathing suit and not feel terrible about myself. I see how hard you work and it makes me feel like I can do that too.'
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If you go in in the morning and have had a rough night, dunking your face in ice water is really good.
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My father was really good at having me stand on my own two feet, both financially and philosophically. His whole parenting philosophy was to give my brother and me the skills to be grown-ups and the curiosity to ask the right questions.
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One year I was given a birthday present I'll never forget - a cooking lesson from Jamie Oliver.
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My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.
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