On Gwyneth Paltrow's interview with Marie Claire on the magazine's February 2015 issue scheduled to come out on the newsstands on Jan. 13, the 42-year-old actress revealed about her divorce with Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and being a working mom. During the interview, Paltrow expressed her sentiments in varying degrees.
In an interview with Marie Claire magazine, Gwyneth Paltrow explained that while her "conscious uncoupling" from ex-husband Chris Martin last March after 10 years of marriage was tough, The Daily Mail reported that the "Mortdecai" star's struggle has been worth it because the ex-couple are closer than ever.
Gwyneth Paltrow revealed that her marriage failed because she got worn-out of "taking care of everyone else." According to The Huffington Post, the "Iron Man" actress told the magazine that she dedicated herself to others too much and didn't get the chance to have needs of her own.
"There was nothing dramatic or anything," Paltrow said. "I had built my life on trying to be all things to all people, and I just couldn't do it anymore, and I really had the sense that I wasn't allowed to have needs, and I had to prove my specialness or self-worth by doing all this stuff and taking care of everybody else, and I just sort of hit a wall."
"We've worked really f**king hard to get to [this] point," the actress continued, as E! News reported. "But we're very, very close, and it's so nice. I feel like it's, in a way, the relationship we were meant to have. I felt like it's, in a way, the relationship we were meant to have."
Gwyneth Paltrow also opened up about productivity on her Marie Claire interview, where she said that women can be more accomplished than men in just 30 minutes.
"Women in 30 minutes can get more accomplished than men in two hours," she said.
Now single, Gwyneth Paltrow also admitted to Marie Claire that she's doing her best to balance work and taking care of her children, 10-year-old Apple and 8-year-old Moses, People reported.
"I think we are all genuinely doing our best, it's hard to have children and a career, and all some women seem to do is judge other women's choices," Paltrow stated. "I find that demoralizing and unhelpful. Where is the wisdom coming out of this situation? I don't see where this is getting us anywhere in terms of a cultural discussion."
Though Gwyneth Paltrow is usually represented in two dimensions either on screen or online, her Marie Claire interview just proved that she is more than just a comic book character as she shows a thoughtful, witty, imperfect and complex persona.
