Gwyneth Paltrow shares photo of her and Brad Falchuk’s blended family
Gwyneth Paltrow
Courtesy of Gwyneth Paltrow/InstagramGwyneth Paltrow gives us a rare glimpse into her blended family with husband Brad Falchuk.
The Goop founder, 51, shared a photo posing next to daughter Apple Martin, 19, and Moses Martin, 17, as well as Falchuk, 52, and his two children Isabella Falchuk, 19, and Brody Falchuk, 17. The group was dressed up . as she stood in the sand on the beach in the Instagram Story photo, which was posted on Sunday, December 24. (Paltrow shares her two children with ex-husband Chris Martin while Falchuk shares his children with his ex-wife Suzanne Bukinik.)
Paltrow liked her too Instagram to share a carousel of photos of her and Apple in the same location, captioned with a Mexican flag emoji.
We weekly broke the news of Paltrow and Falchuk’s engagement in November 2017. The couple married in September 2018.
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Since then, they have kept their family life relatively out of the public eye. However, in August, Paltrow admitted that she found stepparenthood “really hard at first.”
“You know, there’s no book about it, no one telling us what to do,” Paltrow said via her Instagram Story at the time. “And in fact, all existing media surrounding what a stepmother is casts us in this evil, vile light. So it’s a bit like trying to avoid landmines. And then you come into a family with dynamics. And there’s all kinds of fear around loss and what does this person mean?”
She continued: “But for myself, the moment I decided and fully embodied the idea that my stepchildren were my children and I loved them just the same and I gave them the same rules and boundaries and just went for it with all my heart before, the easier the whole thing became. And now things are going quite well.”
In August 2021, the Shakespeare in love star also opened up to Gabriel Union about her new role as stepmother. Although she noted there were “challenges,” Paltrow shared that she learned so much about herself “through the process.”
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“I have two beautiful stepchildren the same age as mine,” she said during an episode of “The Goop Podcast.” “When I became a stepmother, when I knew I was going to be a stepmother, I thought, ‘S–t, I have no idea how to do this. There is nothing to read. What shall I do? Where do I get in? Where not me? How do I do this?'”