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Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow spent the past few months desperately trying to convince her best friend Madonna not to separate from Guy Ritchie, MailOnline can reveal.

The 36-year-old believes Madonna and Guy, who announced the end of their nearly eight-year marriage today, should remain together for the sake of their three children.

Gwyneth is said to have advised her friend to think long and hard about the effects a divorce from the film director will have on Rocco, eight, adopted David Banda, two, and Lourdes, Madonna’s 12-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.

A source told MailOnline: ‘Gwyneth begged Madonna all summer not to be an idiot and let this marriage fall apart.’

Like Madonna, the Shakespeare In Love star is an American married to an Englishman, Coldplay’s Chris Martin, and alternates her time between her homes in London and New York.

Gwyneth is also said to have developed a soft spot for toddler David and would be devastated to lose regular contact with him as well as with her best friend.

The source said: ‘Gwyneth is in love with that little boy and sees him several times a week while she’s in London, and she has as much at stake as anyone in seeing his parents stay together.

‘She just doesn’t think it’s possible that Madonna and Guy would hurt their children by splitting up, and says she has actively advised both of them to put their problems and their egos aside for the sake of the children.

‘But Madonna can be very hard-headed and treats Gwyneth like a younger sister. If Madonna goes through with a divorce it’s going to break Gwyneth’s heart and affect their friendship permanently.’

Adding to Gwyneth’s determination to keep her friends together is her belief that Guy is an excellent parent to the couple’s children.

The source said: ‘Gwyneth considers Madonna to be a very progressive parent, especially when it comes to keeping Lourdes tuned into her roots and encouraging her relationship with Carlos Leon.

‘That Guy has gone along with that is very impressive to Gwyneth, and just one other reason she the thinks they’re not going to divorce over any issue with the children, no matter how rough things get.’

The domesticated actress is also concerned she’ll lose contact with the fiercely independent Madonna once she’s single again.

‘Gwyneth loves being a mom and loves having Madonna as a confidant about marriage, motherhood and keeping a home together in the public eye,’ the source continued.

‘For those reasons alone, Madonna becoming single again is Gwyneth’s worst nightmare. Overnight, they’d go from having everything in common to almost nothing.

‘I don’t think their friendship could survive, especially if Madonna is the one who forces the split.’

However, despite the major upheavals in Madonna’s personal life, it’s unlikely the pop superstar will abandon London for good.

The source said: ‘No matter what happens, with Gwyneth’s help, Madonna has made a home in England, and she’s staying. She loves it there, and has more friends than reports have lead on. England is in her blood, and she won’t walk away from it even if her marriage goes south.

‘For Gwyneth’s part, if they break up, she’ll have to stay friends with Madonna and Guy because she loves those kids so much and Chris and Guy have a very solid friendship as well.’

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I know a bunch of ya’ll are Gwyneth-haters, but I think she’s beautiful.  She looks gorgeous here – can’t deny that!

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The Academy Award winning actress has launched her own lifestyle Website, Goop by Gwyneth Paltrow..

Each of the sections, which include “Make,” “Go,” “Get,” “Do,” “Be,” and “See,” feature an essay written by Paltrow.

“My life is good because I am not passive about it,” Paltrow writes. “I want to nourish what is real, and I want to do it without wasting time. I love to travel, to cook, to eat, to take care of my body and mind, to work hard. I love being a mother who has to overcome my bad qualities to be a good mother. I love being in spaces that are clean and nice.”

Some of her top tips?

“Make your life good. Invest in what’s real,” Paltrow writes. “Cook a meal for someone you love. Pause before reacting. Clean out your space. Read something beautiful. Treat yourself to something. Go to a city you’ve never been to. Learn something new. Don’t be lazy. Workout and stick with it. GOOP. Make it great.”

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Gwyneth Paltrow opened up to Oprah yesterday on suffering from postnatal depression, something she didn’t experience after having her daughter, Apple, in 2004.

“It was very strange because I wasn’t expecting it at all…not that you would expect it,” she says. “After I had Apple, I would characterize it as postnatal euphoria. I was on cloud nine. I was in this bubble. Then, when I had him, I just didn’t feel okay. I didn’t feel right. He came out and I was like, ‘This is really strange. It’s not the same. What’s wrong with me?’ Then, I just went down kind of a slippery slope with it.”

For six months, Gwyneth says she felt like a flat line. “I didn’t realize what was wrong with me. I just thought, ‘I’m not myself. I’m not connected.’ I didn’t feel integrated in my body,” she says. “I wish I had known because I would have gone on medication or addressed it in some way or done something.”

Eventually, Gwyneth says Tracy’s workouts and a healthier diet helped her break through the darkness. “I started exercising, and I started recommitting to eating well, because when I was pregnant, I was eating doughnuts and kind of bad food,” she says. “I have a real thing for fried dough.”

During her postnatal depression, Gwyneth says she sought guidance from family and friends, including Madonna, a mother of three. One evening over dinner, Gwyneth says the music superstar gave her some perspective.

“She was very wise about life’s bigger picture and that when obstacles come up in our life, it’s for a very specific reason. They’re there to teach us something that we haven’t learned yet,” she says. “She made me see that my postnatal depression was an opportunity for me to change certain things about the way I was living and the way I was going forward. She really sort of reorganized my molecules in that situation.”

What most people don’t know, Gwyneth says, is that Madonna’s a very caring woman who’s also very tough. “She’s got an amazing sort of dichotomy,” she says. “She’s very wise, and she has a very soft, soft side.”

Like other moms with small children, Gwyneth says she and Madonna often get together for playdates at home or in the park. “I’m very, very involved in [my kids'] lives and what they’re doing and where they’re going,” she says. “I take them to the park and meet other parents.”

Gwyneth says Madonna’s children, Lourdes, Rocco and David, her adopted son from Malawi, represent their mother’s greatest qualities. “Her children are beyond,” Gwyneth says. “You can measure somebody by their children ultimately, and these children are phenomenal. … They’re very polite. They’re sweet, kind, conscientious.”

At home, Gwyneth says 3-year-old David likes to perform dance routines from Madonna’s concerts on the living room floor. When the kids get together, Gwyneth says her son Moses likes to listen to his father, Chris Martin’s, Coldplay tracks, while David prefers his mom’s music. “It’s very funny,” she says.

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Did any of you watch this Oprah?  I watched it last night, and I just can’t get over how beautiful she is.  She really is very beautiful, her skin, everything…she just glows!  I bet I’d glow if I worked out 2 hours a day, 6 days a week!