Rosamund Pike Questions The True Intentions of the Wellness Industry, Thinks We're Being 'Conned'
justjared.comRosamund Pike is putting the wellness industry’s true intentions into the spotlight. While promoting her upcomnig BBC audio drama, People Who Knew Me, the 44-year-old actress was questioned about goop and other companies like it, and that’s where she revealed that she feels society is being conned by it all. Keep reading to find out more… In the series, there are apparently a few “satirical” jokes about the wellness industry, including Gwyneth Paltrow‘s goop. “I think we’re all being conned by the wellness industry,” she told The Guardian. Rosamund went on, saying that “this idea that it’s no longer enough to be healthy and we have to be ‘well’ is something that needs to be interrogated.” “Yet it’s so seductive because it’s in pursuit of things that people are ashamed to want, like youth, beauty, and fitness,” she added. “#MeToo gave women an opportunity to escape some of the demands put on them.
Now, in a way, people are voluntarily flocking back to being controlled, but in a different guise, by these wellness claims.” “It’s politicized our food, politicized our exercise, and I think it’s really dangerous,” Rosamund shared.
You can listen to the BBC audio drama now. In a recent interview, Gwyneth herself revealed the oddest wellness treatment she’s tried.
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