It might be hard to believe that the woman who introduced vaginal steaming and solid gold dumbbells to the world was once a broke college dropout with weird roommates and cupboards full of sodium-addled noodles — but it’s true. In an interview with Glamour, the 43-year-old actress-turned-entrepreneur recounted the hard line her famous father, the late Bruce Paltrow, drew in the sand when she was just a teenager.
“People think, ‘She’s just a rich kid.’ Until I was 18, I was. Then I was broke. I’ve never taken a dime off my parents. I’m completely self-made,’” Paltrow revealed. Asked, specifically, if she’d endured her share of odd living companions and ramen, she didn’t miss a beat. “Of course!” she quipped. (Let’s all just pause and take in that visual for a moment.) “I went to UC Santa Barbara, and when I quit to try to be an actress, my dad was like, 'That’s great, but I’m not gonna help you.’” Like most teens, Paltrow didn’t quite believe her dad would really stick to his word on that one.
“I was like, 'Yeah, right.’ And he was like, 'No, I’m not,’” she recalled. “So I got an apartment with a roommate; I worked as a hostess at a restaurant; I would scrounge quarters to buy Starbucks — and walk there to save gas. I remember once asking my dad for money, like, 'Please, I’m really stuck. Can you help?’ And he said, 'You’re more than welcome to come over for dinner.’ That was it.” Paltrow fondly added, “Those were the days. Enough to know the value of money.” (So give her a rest about the price points of Goop, already, would you?)
But success brought with it its own set of challenges — namely, Paltrow developed a little bit of a 'tude. Fortunately, Dad was there to put her in check. “I remember my dad once sat me down when I was 25 or 26,” she remembered. “I was in the middle of this storm of success, and my dad was like, 'You’re getting weird.’ [Laughs.] I was like, 'Oh my God, I am. Oh, sh-t.’ I mean, I got it. I thought I was so awesome for a minute.”
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