In Deep Poop, GOOP.

Is it me or are celebrities going further off the deep end of reality?

If you haven’t already heard about, read or listened to Gwenyth Paltrow’s (aka GP) latest interview with Dr. Will Cole, you’re in for a doozy, because GP is officially out to lunch (well, not literally because she apparently doesn’t eat lunch or breakfast but I’ll get to that in a second). I refuse to post the link to her interview because it’s full of dangerous ideas.

The interview with Dr. Cole, a chiropractic doctor, opens with her being embarrassed that her IV drip was still connected. I’m sorry, but I thought IV’s were reserved for those who were sick and actually needed real medical care? Apparently, Gwenyth likes to mainline her vitamins because multivitamins are just so 1980’s. I can already smell the smoke from the flames that will go up about this interview, but I keep listening to the dumpster fire. 

Gwenyth moves on from the IV’s to talk about her “wellness” routine with Dr. Cole.

Her robust “wellness” list includes:

Starving herself.
Skipping breakfast (and essentially lunch).
Having bone broth for lunch (I dare you to down a jug of that crap and tell me it tastes like anything other than dirty socks).
Eating mostly vegetables for dinner.

The internet commenters had a field day with her "routine" and statement that detoxing was really important for her body. Ummm, detox from coffee? Maybe it's the bone broth? You, me and every rational human can see she's actually starving yourself and eating dangerously little food. I think the wellness part must have accidentally been edited out because this is unequivocal self harm, disordered eating and life threatening behavior. I actually feel badly for her that she doesn’t have friends or family calling her out on her starvation tactics and getting her the help she needs. Eating disorders can be deadly. Period.

GP claims she didn’t mean to give her wellness routine as advice, but only a fool in her position doesn’t realize her power over her followers. Her lifestyle brand is, after all, based on doing, buying, and trying what she does in order to live even a small sliver of that GP life.

Now you’re in deep poop, Goop. Your founders words and actions can potentially be inspiring girls and women to participate in self harm. Never mind that a scientific study by Stunkard et al showed that dieting doesn’t work for the vast majority of people. We’re talking less than 25% of people who even attempt dieting have some short term success and of those 25%, 95% will regain all, if not more, of the weight they lost in two to five years.

If you want people to buy your detox products (which your liver can do all by itself without any outside help), your candles that “smell like vaginas”, your limited size clothing line, your sauna blankets for *cough* wellness, and your yoni eggs, you might want to check your facts and know that your diet based, lack of scientific evidence based products likely won’t work and will likely cause harm in the process.

I beg you to stop getting your nutrition advice from celebrities or “experts”. 

You’re your own expert. Stay on this side of reality and out of the deep end.