Gwyneth Paltrow Has 'One Regret' in Her Approach as a Stepmother to Husband Brad Falchuk's Kids
29.09.2022 - 16:49
/ etonline.com
Gwyneth Paltrow and her husband, Brad Falchuk, are opening up about their approaches to parenting each other's kids. Paltrow is mom to 18-year-old daughter Apple and 16-year-old son Moses with ex-husband Chris Martin, while Falchuk is dad to 18-year-old daughter Isabella and 16-year-old son Brody with his ex, Suzanne Bukinik. Paltrow, 50, and Falchuk, 51, tied the knot in 2018 after several years together and took on the task of blending their families.«You're a spectacular stepmom, like, thank goodness for you,» Falchuk tells Paltrow on a new episode of her . The Goop founder admits to having some reservations about her step-mom abilities, but her husband reassures her. «You are! You know you are.
My kids absolutely, I mean, you have a relationship with them outside of me,» Falchuk says. «You talk to them all the time.
They come to you for advice all the time. They rely on you.» A post shared by @bradfalchukNoting that she loves her stepchildren «so much,» Paltrow says she has «one regret» about how she first approached her role as their stepmother. «I think there's this archetypal evil stepmother and this inference that it's going to be this fraught thing,» Paltrow explains.
«So I think I came into it on tenterhooks… it's like you can only do the wrong thing. That's my only regret.» She says that at a certain point, she changed her mentality and it made all the difference. «However many years ago when I was like, 'F**k it, these are my kids.
I'm not going to be scared to discipline them or draw the boundary,'» she shares. «That's really what shifted everything.» A post shared by Gwyneth Paltrow (@gwynethpaltrow)Falchuk recalls one situation where Paltrow yelled at his son, Brody, at the dinner table. «He was shocked
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