that makes your life better on a day-to-day basis, you know? It doesn’t make you have less of an ego or be a more giving person or more present to the people you love, which is what life should be about – and the only way to know that about the Oscar is to win one because, believe me, winning takes the mystique right out of it!” Twelve years, one marriage
and two rambunctious kids after winning the award, she says her life now is filled with very different things from awards shows. “I live a pretty regular life these days,” she confesses. “I’m with my kids, I take them to school, I pick them up from school – we do all the regular family things. I’m the mommy of the house, and I’m like all mommies – I’m the one who fixes the lunches and is in charge of the school projects and organises for the repairmen to come round when the heating breaks down. Let’s face it, we mommies have our fingers in all the pots – we are the world’s great multi-taskers!” Ask her about her children, her daughter Apple, 7, and son Moses, 5, and the Oscar-winning golden girl sounds just like any other mother. “I was so pleased when I had a son the second time. I thought I was going to be having a girl for some reason, so having a boy was great. I myself have a younger brother, Jake, who I adore and who is one of the most important relationships in my life. I’m happy that my two kids have something similar and hope they’ll grow up to be as close as Jake and I are. They’re very good friends to each other, which I like to see. OK, they fight from time to time and, naturally, he wants to be as
From childhood ambition to winning her Oscar at just 27, Gwyneth is now a proud mum of two, and has come into her own
“Moses is the musical one – he’s humming and singing all day long. And he likes to go kickboxing – he has a little outfit and he’s very proud of himself when he wears that. Apple’s more the fashion girl – she loves to go into my closet and get out my shoes, and whenever I go and get my hair and make-up done she asks to get hers done too. She’s very autonomous with her fashion choices, too. She picks out all her clothes herself and if ever she asks me, ‘What do you think? Should I wear the pink one or the blue one?’ and if I say, ‘Mm, maybe the blue one,’ she’ll say, ‘No, I’ll wear the pink one!’ So I don’t influence her at all! I don’t
know if either of them will follow us into show business, that’s entirely up to them. The important thing is that they’re really good kids . They’re polite and they’re well adjusted, and my dream for them is that they grow up to be good, kind, socially responsible people with good values, who are able to do whatever makes them happy in life.” It is obvious that family is hugely important in Gwyneth’s life. “I’m probably more traditional than my own mother,” she admits now. “I like to know everybody is fed and the house is in order. Healthy food is important and I like cooking – it grounds me.”
close to her as he can possibly be, and if that means wrecking what she’s doing then he’s very happy to do that, you know? But most of the time they get along very well and are very sweet together.” She adds, proudly, that they both have strongly defined personalities.
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Coldplay front man Chris Martin, and she politely, but firmly, clams up. The two met in October 2002 (a little poignantly, just three weeks after her father passed away) when Gwyneth headed backstage after going along to watch a Coldplay
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