Gwyneth Paltrow’s healthy obsession
Every weekday morning, Paltrow spends an hour and a half with her personal trainer doing dance aerobics and a precise set of exercises.
Gwyneth Paltrow is obsessed with her health, said Justine Picardie in Harper’s Bazaar. Every weekday morning, she spends an hour and a half with her personal trainer doing dance aerobics and a precise set of exercises that changes every 10 days. The idea, says Paltrow, 39, “is that you’re muscular but don’t get used to anything.” Right now, she’s also on a 12-week detox program. “I have a lot of inflammation in my system, so I’m not having anything I’m allergic to—no gluten, no dairy, no sugar.” She embraced a clean-living lifestyle in 2002 after her beloved father, hard-drinking, chain-smoking director Bruce Paltrow, died of throat cancer at age 58. “All I’ve learned about health came from his cancer. I’ll probably have a long and healthy life because he didn’t.” When Paltrow talks about her father, her eyes fill with tears, and she touches his wedding ring, which hangs on a gold chain around her neck. “I would do anything to have him back, but half the reason my life is good, has real value, is that he died,” she says. “As much pain and heartache [as his death] caused, there was an equal amount of positivity.”
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