Gwyneth Paltrow says she left Hollywood to raise her daughter
foxnews.comGwyneth Paltrow revealed that the birth of her daughter Apple in 2004 was her reason to leave Hollywood. "Once I had Apple, I really didn't want to fly off and go [on] location, and I wanted to be home," the Goop founder explained to reporters at the launch event for her more affordable good.clean.goop beauty line Wednesday. "I think especially women have very different chapters in their lives, and I think we should feel free to lean into whatever incarnation comes with the next chapter." Paltrow was an "it" girl in the 1990s and early 2000s, starring in movies like "Se7en," "Emma," "Shallow Hal" and "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow." And she won a best actress Oscar for "Shakespeare in Love" in 1999.
But after she married Chris Martin in 2003 and gave birth to her daughter a year later, her priorities changed.The former couple also share son Moses, 17. "I think we should all give ourselves the permission to do that," she said of realigning priorities.
The 51-year-old said she was grateful she was able to take a "pause" from acting and "be home and have my little kids. And then I had this voice inside me, 'I don't know if I really want to go back to doing [acting].' "And then it gave me a bit of a crisis.
Well, then, what does that mean about me, and who am I if I'm not, am I worth anything? It was very confusing." Paltrow continued to work after her children were born, playing Pepper Potts in the "Iron Man" franchise and "The Avengers," along with other movies, but her roles tended to be smaller and less frequent.
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