There aren’t many contemporary celebrities with images layered enough that I could talk about them all day. But Gwyneth? She’s one of them. She’s it. She’s never pretended to be “just like us,” which is part of what makes her beguiling — and infuriating. She knows exactly what she’s doing, and sometimes what she’s doing is trying to get a bunch of people to talk about jade eggs you put in your vagina. She’s a master marketer of self, a promoter of charlatans, and impossible to ignore. And I’m so thrilled to have Amy Odell, author of the new, impeccably reported Gwyneth biography, here to discuss all your excellent questions.

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Show Notes:

• Follow Amy Odell on Instagram here

• Subscribe to Amy’s Substack, BACK ROW

• Buy Gwyneth here

• The glorious backside of the book, covered in interview excerpts:

• You can read excerpts of the book in People

• THE Great Expectations outfit:

• The big piece I wrote on Ben Affleck (that includes some parts about class anxiety / Gwyneth)

• Sara Petersen’s excellent piece on the book

• Gwyneth’s commercial for Astronomer after the CEO/Coldplay Concert Love Affair Scandal

We’re currently looking for your questions for future episodes about:

• Running a Small Business — and How to Make It Sustainable & Survivable (with Jen Hewett!)

• All things Love is Blind with Audie Cornish

• Different Modalities of Hanging Out (aka, best ways to hang out with different people) with Mary HK Choi

• Baseball Culture (with Ali Liebegott and Melody as additional co-host!!!)

• The history/utility/culture of OUTDOOR PERFORMANCE GEAR with Avery Trufelman (of Articles of Interest)

• What an actually family-friendly society would look like (with Elliot Haspel)

• An ADULT HOBBIES crossover episode with Forever35!

• Anything you need advice or want musings on for the AAA segment. You can ask about anything, it’s literally the name of the segment!

• As always, you can submit them (and ideas for future eps) here

For this week’s discussion: Tell me all your ADDITIONAL Gwyneth thoughts!