Gwyneth Paltrow has opened up about being a stepmother, admitting that the road to where she is now was “really tough.”
Attending the Visionary Women’s International Women’s Day Summit at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel Wednesday, the Goop founder, 51, asked if there were any fellow stepmoms in the audience.
“Yeah, it’s a bitch, right, guys? No, I actually, I really like to talk about this because it’s one of my biggest learnings as a human being,” she said to a cheering audience.
“And my area of growth personally came from the initial difficult relationship I had with my step kids and now they’re like my kids.”
The Oscar-winning actress shares daughter Apple, 19, and 17-year-old son Moses with ex-husband singer Chris Martin, to whom she was married from 2003 to 2016.
Since tying the knot with “Glee” and “American Horror Story” co-creator Brad Falchuk, Paltrow became a stepmother to his two children, Isabella, 19, and Brody, 17.
“The path to here was really rough,” the “Talented Mr. Ripley” actress admitted. “It’s almost like you have to embody the spirit of the sun and just give and not expect anything back.”
“I just learned to try to just keep shining like the sun and never keeping score,” she added.
Paltrow and Falchuk wed in September 2018, two years after her and the Coldplay frontman’s divorce was finalized.
The exes remain on great terms and even vacation together with their respective partners.
What’s more, Paltrow reportedly gave her blessing for Martin to finally pop the all-important question to his girlfriend of six years Dakota Johnson.
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For his part, Falchuk shares his two children with his previous wife of 19 years, Suzanne Bukinik.
After finding love with Falchuk, Paltrow revealed that she waited nearly a year to move their blended family into one home after the nuptials.
The health guru previously explained their hesitation to immediately “merge” during an October 2019 “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” interview, saying, “We each have two teenage children whom we love very much.”
“We were just trying to be mindful and give them a little space and not move too quickly,” she added.
