Gwyneth Paltrow: People “Enjoy Life” More in Spain Than United States
Gwyneth Paltrow says Spain has “became a second home.”
“It is so different from the United States. It seemed to have a history, and the buildings are years and years and years old. Here in the United States an old building is about 17 (years old), and over there it’s from 500 B.C., it’s incredible,” she tells the Associated Press.
“Also, the way people live over there. They seem to enjoy life a little bit more,” she continued. “They aren’t running around as much as in New York. They enjoy time with the family. They don’t always have their Blackberries on.”
(It’s not the first time she’s praised another country. In 2006, she stirred controversy for telling a Portuguese paper that she liked “the English lifestyle” because “it’s not as capitalistic as America. People don’t talk about work and money… they talk about interesting things at dinner.” She later said she was misquoted.)
Paltrow – who shot the PBS show Spain … on the Road Again with chef Mario Batali – says she visits Spain at least once a year and remains close to the family she lived with. She calls them “my Spanish mother” and “my brothers.”
She also says that she makes sure her children can speak Spanish.
Says the actress (who took her first trip to Spain as a teen), “Moses speaks
a little bit, but understands everything. Apple speaks a lot.”
Paltrow says she is also writing a book on U.S. cuisine with Spanish influence that is due out next year.
” … I love food, I love to eat,” she says. “I can’t go on diets. I have to do a lot of exercise.”
July 1st, 2009 at 9:09 am
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah …….. this pale looking chick is always taking crap about how better it is in the country she’s is in at the time. If she thinks it’s better there, why doesn’t she stay ………. because here is where she makes her money. No one cares about her in other countries. Hello Paltrow ……. wake up and take your snotty nose out of your butt. By the way, where is your HUSBAND in all of this? Probably trying to get away from your boring ass.
July 1st, 2009 at 9:10 am
This woman is soooooooooo boring!!!!!!!!!
July 1st, 2009 at 9:12 am
one word for this woman ………. BORING!!!!
July 1st, 2009 at 9:29 am
Gigia: she has taken her butt out of this country…she lives in the UK. Look, I am not a fan of her by any stretch, but she does have a point. Life is acually like she describes it in Spain. I wish more Americans had the deisre or means to travel to these other countries to see the differences. I am not saying one country is better than another, just that they are different.
July 1st, 2009 at 9:34 am
Exactly. Different contexts, different people, different lives. Everyone has a choice. You live how YOU want to live. I’m tired of this bitch always feeling that the world is entitled to her opinion on EVERYTHING.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:35 am
Why is she still allowed to be alive? This pompous ridiculously stupid cunt… If that’s so stupid bitch, why don’t you take your ugly cock-eyed ass there then… We don’t want you here trick
July 1st, 2009 at 4:33 pm
I kind of agree with Anonymous, but, everyone else has a point. She is always trying to praise other countries ……….. I have been to the UK and also Spain and what she says is true, but who would want to live in a place where 85% of the people are so arrogant!!!!! It just seems wrong, but with money, now that’s a different story, right Gwennie?
July 1st, 2009 at 4:38 pm
” … I love food, I love to eat,” she says. “I can’t go on diets. I have to do a lot of exercise.” What a “crock” ………. she has interviewed before and this contradicts what she has said before. Where is Chris Martin in all of this? I knew he would be bored to tears with this “BORE” of a woman!
July 1st, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Americans need to travel more. There’s so much more to the world than Hollywood and all its crap.
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:32 pm
What American need to do is quit idolizing boring people like Gwen Paltrow. She probably left the US cause she couldn’t cut it here anymore, sho maybe she could give it a shot abroad. SHE IS BORING!!!!!!!!
July 6th, 2009 at 9:13 am
One word regarding this lady: BORING !!!!!!!!!!!
July 6th, 2009 at 9:14 am
B O R I N G !!!! This is how Chris Martin probably thinks of you!