Gwyneth Paltrow Says She Almost Died While Giving Birth To Daughter Apple In 2004
This Gwyneth Paltrow story takes us all the way back to 2004 when she gave birth to her first child, daughter Apple, who she had with Chris Martin. While Gwyneth had cesareans for both Apple and her son Moses, with Apple the delivery was so intense that she and Apple “almost died.”
People says that Gwyneth appeared on Dax Shepard‘s podcast, Armchair Expert–of course, Gwyneth is an expert on literally everything so that’s a perfect guest right there.
In the episode, she told Dax that when she gave birth to Apple (who is now 17) Gwyneth had some scary health issues:
“I had two cesareans. My daughter was an emergency. It was crazy–we almost died. It was, like, not good… Anyway, there’s a big scar across your body, and you’re like, “Oh, wow, that didn’t use to be there.” And it’s not that it’s bad, or you want to judge it, but you’re just like, “Oh, my God.””
I’m sure Gwyneth has some scar-fading cream made with lotions mined from the ocean floor available for sale on Goop for the affordable price of a $59.99 monthly subscription. Gwyneth also said she’s happy Instagram wasn’t around in 2004 because she couldn’t have handled all the hot moms with flat stomachs:
“Thank God there wasn’t Instagram when I had babies because now it’s like if I see someone, “Oh I just gave birth two weeks ago and I have a completely washboard stomach,” and I’m like, “Wow that’s not what I [looked like].” And like great, more power to the lady with the washboard [abs] but that is totally the exception and then now we’re being fed all of these other images of what we’re supposed to look like all the time–babies, no babies, whatever.”
Well honestly, this is far more modest than I thought Gwyneth was capable of. I mean sure the self-deprecating Relatable™ flat-stomach problems were an easy win for her, but the whole almost dying thing? I’m stunned she didn’t say how she almost died and spoke to a God who was a woman and looked just like her (Yes, God is Goopy) and told her that her destiny is selling coochie eggs to the masses.
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