“Isn’t that cool?” said Paltrow, 51. “I was at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, where my mom (actressBlythe Danner) was doing plays, and he was an apprentice.”
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Gwyneth Paltrow; Kiefer Sutherland.Pascal Le Segretain/Getty; Christopher Polk/WWD/Getty

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“I think it was very funny because it’s unbelievable how fast someone goes from 13 to 18, and obviously they look so different that when Gwyneth started to work, I thought, ‘Well, that must be another girl,’ because I always remember her as being 11 or 12 years old,” recalled the24alum.
Gwyneth Paltrow onHot Ones’s March 21, 2024, episode.First We Feast

First We Feast
Aside from parenting her own kids, Paltrow also has experience being a stepmom to husbandBrad Falchuck’s kids Brody, 18, andIsabella, 19.
Earlier this month at the Visionary Women’s International Women’s Day Summit in Los Angeles, the Oscar winner said while she loves her bonus babies, “the path to here was really rough.”
“I really like to talk about this because it’sone of my biggest learningsas a human being. And my area of growth personally came from the initial difficult relationship I had with my stepkids, and now they’re like my kids,” Paltrow said.
TheIron Manactress added that when it comes to raising stepchildren, “It’s almost like you have to embody the spirit of the sun and just give and not expect anything back.”
“I just learned to try to just keep shining like the sun and never keeping score," she said.
source: people.com