Post by Admin on Apr 16, 2021 4:14:15 GMT
TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie sits down with actress Gwyneth Paltrow, founder and CEO of the Goop lifestyle franchise. She talks about her daughter Apple’s involvement in the business; her mom, actress Blythe Danner; and how some of her products are taboo. She also talks about her recovery from COVID-19: “I’m feeling better and better,” she says.
Gwyneth Paltrow quickly made a name for herself in the wellness space with her brand Goop. But now the 48-year-old is becoming synonymous with female pleasure as well after releasing the brand's first vibrator.
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"Our sexuality is such an important part of who we are and even the fact that, if you think about it, we’re on morning television so we can’t talk about female pleasure," Paltrow told TODAY during a Thursday appearance. "It sort of gives you an insight into how culturally, it’s still taboo."
The vibrator isn't the first of Paltrow's products that tapped into taboos, as Goop previously launched a "This Smells Like My Vagina" candle and vaginal jade eggs. "One of the things that we really believe in at Goop is kind of eliminating shame from these topics," she explained to co-host Savannah Guthrie. This, she's made clear since openly speaking about her own sexuality in 2016.
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"We have this idea that you can’t be a mother and a businesswoman and like to have sex!" she told Self. "How is an intelligent woman a sexual being? It’s really hard to integrate those things. ...But I think it’s important, as mothers and as women contributing to society in whatever way we each are, that our true sexuality doesn’t get lost or put aside."
Paltrow expanded on this with the release of The Sex Issue, a book by Goop editors, which includes a foreword by her, that promises to explain "everything you've always wanted to know about sexuality, seduction and desire."
"Sex is the great hot-button issue. While this is not surprising, it has been eye-opening for all of us at goop to see how triggering conversations around women’s pleasure and sexual health can be for so many," Paltrow wrote. "Women talking about sex — about what they like and don’t like, what they are getting and not getting in their intimate relationships, the toll of sexual trauma and how they heal — has a tendency to make people (both men and other women) extraordinarily self-conscious and uneasy."