Gwyneth Paltrow and daughter Apple leaving an airport.

Apple’s getting big!! I wish we could see her face..

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Apple’s getting big!! I wish we could see her face..

Gwyneth Paltrow has taken her New York home off the market after just a day – amid claims she made unpatriotic comments. The backtrack over Shallow Hal star Paltrow and husband Chris Martin’s Manhattan pad – which they had listed for $13.75 million – coincides with an interview at a press event in Spain, where she is reported to have made “anti-American” comments. But the actress insists she was misquoted, saying, “I feel so proud to be American. I am a New York girl.” And her representative insists if it was offered for sale, it was by mistake, telling the New York Daily News, “She just finished decorating most of the place.”
Gwyneth Paltrow is “deeply upset” over stories claiming she made anti-American remarks, and tells PEOPLE exclusively that she never said anything against her native country.
“First of all I feel so lucky to be American. When you look at the rest of the world, we’re so lucky, and that’s something my dad always instilled in me,” Paltrow tells PEOPLE. “I feel so proud to be American.”
The actress has recently been criticized after she was quoted as telling the Portuguese newspaper Diario De Noticias, “The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans.”
“I felt so upset to be completely misconstrued and I never, ever would have said that,” says the 34-year-old Oscar winner. “I definitely did not say that I think the British are more intelligent and civilized than Americans. I am a New York girl, that’s how I always think of myself and see myself.”
Paltrow, who lives part-time in London with her British husband, Coldplay singer Chris Martin, and their two children, Apple, 2, and Moses, 7 months, says: “I live in England half the time because I’m married to an English guy. It’s not like I’ve left America.”
As for where the quotes came from, Paltrow says she did not give an interview to the Portuguese daily newspaper, though she did give a press conference – in Spanish – for an endorsement she did in Spain.
“This is what I said. I said that Europe is a much older culture and there’s a difference. I always say in America, people live to work and in Europe, people work to live. There are positives in both,” says the actress, adding, “Obviously I need to go back to seventh-grade Spanish!”
Oscar-winning US actress Gwyneth Paltrow feels dinner talk is far more interesting in her adopted homeland Britain than back in her native country.
“I love the English lifestyle, it’s not as capitalistic as America. People don’t talk about work and money, they talk about interesting things at dinner,” she told “NS,” the weekend magazine supplement of daily Portuguese newspaper Diario de Noticias on Saturday.
“I like living here because I don’t fit into the bad side of American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans,” the 34-year-old added.
Paltrow, who won a best actress Oscar for 1998’s “Shakespeare in Love,” lives in London with British band Coldplay’s frontman Chris Martin whom she wed in 2003.
She said having US pop star Madonna, 48, who married British film director Guy Ritchie six years ago, nearby was another advantage to living in London.
“She’s like an older sister. Everything I have gone through, she went through ten times worse and ten times longer. She gives me good advice about how to say no and take care of myself,” said Paltrow.
It seems like just yesterday she was a baby. Awww, our little girl is growing up.
Oh yea, and that’s Moses Martin.
Gwyneth Paltrow takes charge of her slumbering 3-month-old, Moses, while checking out some goods in New York City’s SoHo on Monday.
