Gwyneth Paltrow Made up Another Term For This Familiar Life Event
glamour.com. When she and Chris Martin got divorced, she said they "consciously uncoupled." And now she's added another term to the Gooptionary: “free bird.”It's not just a song by Lynyrd Skynyrd!
In a new profile in , the Oscar winner explains that as she prepares to send her son Moses off to college (daughter Apple is already a college sophomore), she is not an “empty nester.” She's a “free bird.” Or maybe the kids are the free birds?
I'll be the first to admit I don't get this. But I'm willing to give it a try. “Aunt Sally and Uncle Pat just started fostering puppies; they've got a lot more room in their house and time on their hands now that they're…free birds.” Well, OK!
This content can also be viewed on the site it from.“I’m trying to reframe it so that I can at least try to convince myself there’s some kind of a silver lining," Paltrow explained of her latest vocab invention. “Empty nest sounds so sad and lonely.” Now, this makes sense.
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