Gwyneth Paltrow shows off her birthday costume.
The Goop founder stripped naked and slathered in metallic body paint for a “Goldfinger”-inspired nude shoot to celebrate her 50th birthday Tuesday.
“All I know is that they paint me gold and I have to be naked. I feel so good turning 50, and this is about expressing that sense of energy and optimism that I feel,” Paltrow said while on set, according to a Goop press release.
“It’s more about the feminine look and just a sense of pleasure.”
Prior to turning the big 5-0, Paltrow shared some “milestone musings” with fans along with a merry bikini gram, writing on Goop that while she was “oddly enough [has] no sense of time passed’, her body ‘is less timeless’.
“My body [is] a card of proof of all days … A collection of signs and irregularities that dog-eared the chapters. Scars from oven burns, a finger smashed into a window long ago, the birth of a child. Silver hair and fine lines. The sun has left its heavenly fingerprints on me,” said the Oscar winner.
“I accept the scars and the sagging skin, the wrinkles. I accept my body and let go of the need to be perfect, look perfect, defy gravity, defy logic, defy humanity. I accept my humanity.”
While Paltrow teamed up with the anti-wrinkle injectable Xeomin in 2020 — and has said a “tiny drop” of the stuff helps her “look less pissed off” — she prefers “clean, non-toxic products” over plastic surgery, and has talked a lot about embracing the process of aging rather than fighting it.
“I like my wrinkles and you know, I like what I see,” she told Stylist in 2014. “Sure, I can get into the frame of mind where I get critical of this and that, but I really try not to do that and try to appreciate the incredible life I’ve lived and everything I’ve learned, I like that it’s all written on my face.”
Still, in a 2020 interview with her mother, Blythe Danner, and her teenage daughter, Apple, Paltrow admitted that “aging is hard.”
“It’s definitely a process, and I think seeing your face start to change doesn’t necessarily make you feel your best,” she said in a Goop video at the time.
“But the irony is that it’s that time in your life when you really love and love yourself. So you feel really beautiful inside.”