Author Amy Odell shared the British Vogue cover on Instagram before soon deleting the post
Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t read Amy Odell’s unauthorized biography about her, and she doesn’t plan to.
Gwyneth: The Biography, by journalist Odell, made headlines when it was published in July.
The book is based on more than 220 exclusive interviews with sources close to Paltrow, including former and current friends and colleagues, with a tagline that teased: “The real Gwyneth — the basis of her motives, desires, strengths, faults and vulnerabilities — has never been fully revealed, until now.”
In a new cover story for British Vogue, Paltrow, 53, was asked about the book, revealing that her husband Brad Falchuk skimmed it and gave her his take on it.
Has she read it herself? “Oh God no,” said the actress, who later called the book “boring.”
“So my husband flicked through it, just because I was like, ‘What is in this?’ He said, ‘It’s as if somebody put in a prompt in ChatGPT and said: mine every Daily Mail article and write a biography about Gwyneth Paltrow.’ ”
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Paltrow added that author Odell, who also penned a 2022 book about Vogue editor Anna Wintour, “totally missed everything, the truth of who I am, what my impact is.”
The Goop founder said Falchuk, the 54-year-old writer-producer whom Paltrow married in 2018, “was like, ‘It’s just bad. It’s really badly written.’ I was like, ‘Okay.’ ”
Odell re-posted an image of Paltrow’s British Vogue cover on her Instagram Stories Wednesday morning, writing: “Here we go with the Oscar campaign,” but deleted the post shortly after. (Paltrow, who won an Academy Award in 1999, is currently promoting her new film with Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme, which debuted to raves at the New York Film Festival.)
In a previous statement, Odell said, “After writing an in-depth biography of Anna Wintour, I set out to find another female subject who has made a significant impact on our current culture. Writing about Gwyneth was a fascinating experience from beginning to end — I was surprised by what my research revealed, and I can’t wait to share it with readers.”
