The Week

Thanks to carefully-maintained Instagram and Twitter feeds, as well as easily-manipulated tabloid magazines, it’s become all too easy to feel as though we really know celebrities. We get to see them getting ready for awards nights, enjoying a lazy Sunday, and even breastfeeding their newborns. The result is a sense of artificial intimacy that makes us believe that maybe US Weekly is right; stars really are just like us.

Paltrow is one of the few celebrities who seems unwilling to take part in this little pact. She isn’t anything like us. She is rich and famous and beautiful and sleeps in pajamas more expensive than our nicest winter coats.