Gwyneth Paltrow couldn’t care less about Goop haters

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Gwyneth Paltrow knows that she and her Goop empire are constantly being criticized, but she couldn’t care less. “The people who are triggered by me—‘I don’t like her because she is pretty and she has money’—it’s because they haven’t given themselves permission to be exactly who they are,” Paltrow, 47, recently told Town & Country, …

Gwyneth Paltrow knows that she and her Goop empire are constantly being criticized, but she couldn’t care less.

“The people who are triggered by me—‘I don’t like her because she is pretty and she has money’—it’s because they haven’t given themselves permission to be exactly who they are,” Paltrow, 47, recently told Town & Country, adding that Goop is where people, “ask whatever question they want, to live their lives exactly the way they want to live them, to be empowered to have difficult conversations and to be direct.”

She went on to say that being trolled “doesn’t mean anything to me, because it’s not about me … It’s about what I represent, and that’s about you.”

The Goop founder, lambasted in the past for endorsing items like jade eggs and a candle called “This Smells Like My Vagina,” believes she is misunderstood because she is a woman of many hats.

“I don’t want to unnecessarily move myself from one box to another one,” she said. “In this society we like our women in one digestible way that we understand, but if you try to be something else, we don’t like it. People couldn’t for a long time believe that I was running a company, until they heard me say, ‘I’m giving up acting. I’ll never be onscreen again.’”

She continued, “What’s silently incendiary is we’re all saying we are more than one thing. Why can’t I get acupuncture and read a scientific paper? I can be intellectual, I can be sexual, I can be maternal, I can be all of these things.”

Paltrow clearly hasn’t actually given up acting, appearing most recently on her husband Brad Falchuk’s Netflix series “The Politician.” But on top of running her lifestyle brand and continuing to act, she says her main goal is to help people.

“I really believe that being alive is just a process of—if you’re not wasting your f–king life—figuring out how you can impact the world positively,” she said. “You can choose to engage in your life and participate in it, or you can back out and criticize everybody else in your arena.”

She added that she is genuinely trying to discover new outlets for wellness, as seen on her Netflix docuseries, “The Goop Lab.”

“You can keep resisting it, but I’m on the right side of this,” she said. “I’m watching the market. I’m watching what’s happening. I think what this wellness movement is really about is listening to yourself, tuning into what interests you, and trying things. Find what makes you feel better and go from there.”