Amy Odell takes readers inside the world of one of the most influential and polarizing celebrities of the modern era—complete with exclusive new stories about her childhood, acting career, romances, and her lifestyle brand Goop.
Dishy, often delicious ... Odell’s take on Paltrow’s early, less-documented years is thin, reliant on tenuous sources ... The book is strongest on the Goop era.
Takes no particular stand ... The author writes in the acknowledgments that she spoke to 220 people for the book, in which case we have to assume that a great many of them had little to say ... Perfectly enjoyable ... I ripped through Odell’s account of Paltrow’s youth ... Small potatoes but we’ll take it ... A trawl through a lot of things we already know ... The difficulty with all this is that Paltrow is a charmless subject who never rises to the level of monstrous ... Pat.
