Gwyneth Paltrow Says That She’s ‘Sick’ of Paleo Diet and Now Eats a ‘Little Pasta’

• Gwyneth Paltrow has revealed that she now allows herself certain indulgences like “a little pasta” after becoming “sick” of the paleo and anti-inflammatory diet
• She also admitted on her The goop Podcast that she was into “hardcore macrobiotics for a certain time” and became “obsessed with eating very, very healthily”
• The actress previously made headlines for her paleo diet, which included eating bone broth for lunch, in 2023

Two years after making headlines for her strict anti-inflammatory and paleo diet, Gwyneth Paltrow has revealed that she’s trying something new.

The Iron Man actress, 52, revealed on the latest episode of her The goop Podcast on April 22 that she has loosened the reins when it comes to which foods she can and can’t eat and now allows herself certain indulgences.

“…Brad [Falchuk] and I became paleo a few years ago now, although I’m a little sick of it — if I’m honest — and getting back into eating some sourdough bread and some cheese,” Paltrow admitted on the podcast. 

“There, I said it, a little pasta. After being strict with it for so long,” she added.

Paltrow noted that she is still sticking with eating foods that are “as whole and fresh as possible” in order to deal with “longer term inflammation” and “health” issues that she was having. But she also admitted that she may have taken it a bit too far at first.

“I went into hardcore macrobiotics for a certain time. That was an interesting chapter where I got kind of obsessed with eating very, very healthily. I think that was, I was really trying to heal my dad [Bruce Paltrow] by proxy and he just didn’t really want anything to do with it,” she recalled, referring to her late father who died in 2002 after a years-long battle with throat cancer.

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“I think I was just so amazed that, you know, we had this power in our hands, you know, that if we treated ourselves well and hydrated and ate whole foods that we could just feel so much better. I was sort of intoxicated by that idea, and I still feel that way to this day,” she explained.

The actress said she is practicing the art of balance now, and no longer living strictly within the confines of the diet. She added that she is using healthy foods as a “sort of template” to live her life.

According to the Mayo Clinic, the paleo diet is an “eating plan based on foods humans might have eaten during the Paleolithic Era,” which dates from around 2.5 million to 10,000 years ago.

The modern paleo diet includes foods such fruits, vegetables, lean meats, fish, eggs, nuts and seeds.

This comes two years after the Goop founder garnered backlash online after sharing what she ate in a day — which included soup or “bone broth” for lunch and a paleo dietary meal with “lots of vegetables” for dinner — on The Art of Being Well podcast with Dr. Will Cole in March 2023. 

Several people, including model Tess Holliday and Meghan McCain criticized the meal plan at the time, with the former noting that it “normalizes under eating,” which she said is “more than dangerous.” Dietician Lauren Cadillac also noted that this was “not enough food” for “someone that is 5’9.”

In response to the criticism, during a Q&A session on her Instagram Stories, Paltrow noted that she made the remarks during a podcast with her doctor “for over two years” who was helping her “deal with some chronic stuff,” including “high levels of inflammation.”

The Oscar winner said her appearance on the podcast served as “a transparent look at a conversation between me and my doctor,” and added, “It’s not meant to be advice for anybody else. It’s really just what has worked for me, and it’s been very powerful and very positive.”

She further clarified at the time, “This is not to say I eat this way all day, every day. And by the way, I eat far more than bone broth and vegetables. I eat full meals, and I also have a lot of days of eating whatever I want. You know, eating french fries and whatever. My baseline really has been to try to be healthy and eat foods that will really calm the system down.”