ET sat down with Gwyneth Paltrow over the weekend in New York City during promotion for her new film, Iron Man, in an interview to air on Monday, April 28th.

Paltrow arrived with a fresh haircut, bobbed just below her collar. She explains her new look, “I had very long hair for a long time and I was very attached to it. I kept holding on to it. One day it was, ‘Enough with the hair!’ It was very liberating.” She goes on to say that daughter Apple didn’t like it at all and immediately wanted to cut her hair like Mommy’s.

Like many moms, Paltrow says she suffered from post-partum depression following childbirth, “It was a very difficult time,” she says. “I just did not know what was wrong with me. I felt very detached, I felt like I was a shell of myself. I just felt like I was going through the motions of the things in my life. It was a very weird three to six months. I didn’t know what was wrong with me until I started to come out of it, and my mom said to me, ‘You don’t seem right. What’s going on?’ And I was defensive because I didn’t know what was wrong with me.”

The mom of two, Apple, 3, and Moses, 2, says she didn’t take medication because, “By the time I realized I needed medication I was already coming out of it.” She says, “I really feel for any woman who’s had it or going through it, because it’s not easy.” When asked if she would have more children, Paltrow says maybe one more and adds that she might be open to adoption.

The Oscar winning actress goes on to tell ET that she is not without flaws, “I’m not a good speller. I’m bad at math. I can get impatient, which is a terrible quality. I’m terrible at baking, I ruin anything I try!” Paltrow also reveals that she no longer adheres to a strict macrobiotic diet, “I do eat ice-cream sundaes and I also eat cheese!”

On why she took the role in Iron Man, she says, “It was time to just have some fun! Enough with the crying and the serious and the Shakespeare!”

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Pics: Gwyneth Paltrow at the Late Show with David Letterman last night.

Gwyneth Paltrow has slammed reports she snubbed a party held in her honor, insisting she never intended to attend the event.

Paramount Pictures executives spared no expense in throwing an extravagant bash for the Iron Man star, intended as a thank-you for her hard work on the film’s recent promotional tour.

Studio bosses reportedly lavished $120,000 on the private celebration at London restaurant Cocoon on Thursday, inviting 30 of her closest family and friends and supplying Perrier Jouet champagne and vodka cocktails that she was said to have requested.

Arrangements for a private entrance were also in place for the arrival of the actress and her husband, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, in keeping with their pact never to be photographed together.

But at the last minute, Paltrow, 35, disappointed guests, including her in-laws Anthony and Alison Martin, when she and her husband instead went for an impromptu meal with her Iron Man co-star Robert Downey Jr.

However, the actress is adamant she had not promised to be at the affair.

On Saturday, Paltrow’s spokesperson said, “Gwyneth was never meant to attend the afterparty. She was at a taping of the Jonathan Ross show (a British talk show) which ran late and then she went home to be with her children. Everyone was told weeks ago that she would not be attending. She has said many times that she deliberately does not make public appearances with her husband.”

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Gwyneth Paltrow donated $75,000 to the Food Bank for New York City at a celebrity-studded benefit held for the organization on Saturday.

The actress, an honoree at the event, dug into her own deep pockets to match the sum raised at the bash.

She told guests, “I’ve been thinking about all the crap my children have and how much food we throw away. We have to do better.”

The Food Bank distributes free food to over 1.5 million hungry New Yorkers every year.

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