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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 12 June 2017
Gwyneth Paltrow brings her website to life at Goop event

SANDY COHEN ing the optimal versions of “I didn’t really know what
AP Entertainment Writer ourselves.” to expect, but I’m definitely
CULVER CITY, Calif. (AP) It offered a full day of pro- impressed,” said 44-year-
— There were organic pa- gramming at three price old Dawn Watts, a self-de-
leo wraps and matcha levels: $500, $1,000 and scribed “avid Goop read-
smoothies, crystal readings $1,500. The top tiers includ- er” who traveled from New
and aura photography, ed fitness classes and lunch York to attend the event.
hydrating IV drips and an or cocktails with Paltrow “You can’t take advan-
“oxygen bar,” $72 aroma- and featured panelists. All tage of all of the offerings
therapy candles and $90 guests had access to lec- because they booked up
vitamin packs, plus lectures tures, organic foods and too quickly... That’s the only
on gut health, mothering, pampering treats like mani- thing that’s been disap-
self-help and sexual aware- cures, face massages, a pointing.” Brandi Bakewell
ness: It was Gwyneth Pal- hairstyling bar and goodie of Los Angeles was taking
trow’s Goop website come bags. There was an extra a cellphone picture of her
to life. charge for IV drips and B-12 aura photo to explain to
Paltrow hosted the inaugu- injections. her friends what she was
ral “In Goop Health” event Between lectures, wom- up to on Saturday. A thera- In this Jan. 26, 2016, file photo, Gwyneth Paltrow poses for pho-
tographers before Chanel’s Spring-Summer 2016 Haute Couture
Saturday in Culver City, en mingled in the “Goop pist who subscribes to the fashion collection in Paris.
California, where about Hall” of shopping and Goop newsletter, Bakewell Associated Press
600 women spent the day sustenance. Food stands said she came to the Goop
chatting, learning, eating, handed out kefir bowls event for her own health I want to buy this book?’” such as Cameron Diaz, Ni-
She noted that she is Af-
cole Richie, designer Tory
shopping and generally and bee-pollen smoothies. and to enhance her holistic
indulging in the designer- A “pharmacy” sold health approach toward patients. rican-American among Burch and model Miranda
the overwhelmingly white Kerr.
wellness lifestyle touted by books and Goop-branded “It’s the opportunity to have
goop.com. Another such vitamins. The “Clean Beau- all of these leaders within crowd. Forty-seven-year-old Eliza-
beth Van Winkle bought a
“I just think it’s about peo-
event is planned for Janu- ty Apothecary” carried the field come together in
ary in New York, Paltrow Goop-branded cosmetics. a one-day, one-stop shop,” ple not knowing about it,” ticket to the event — “not
she said.
something in my wheel-
said. Other shops had kitchen said the 43-year-old. “I can
She described the gather- gadgets and workout wear actually see the products, The speakers included house at all” — because a
physicians,
psychologists, friend who works for Goop
ing as a “summit focused for sale, including a $195 feel them; hear the speak-
toward being and achiev- Goop sweat shirt. ers, see them and think, ‘Do sex experts and celebrities told her it would be fun.q