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Actress Gwyneth Paltrow has been showing up in a lot of unlikely places lately. She recently visited with Oprah to discuss her post-pregnancy work-out routine, and appeared on chef Mario Batali’s PBS series Spain … on the Road Again. Does Paltrow find herself with a lot of spare time on her hands suddenly? Is she loosening up a little? Well, maybe, but these appearances also signal that Paltrow is transitioning into a new phase of her celebrity. With an upcoming cookbook and a gym opening in TriBeCa, the star is poised to move into Martha Stewart and Oprah territory. She even launched a lifestyle website, Goop.com, which bears the tagline, “Nourish the Inner Aspect.”

The site has gotten serious flack from critics, however, who have a hard time buying Paltrow as the next big lifestyle goddess. Says Gwynnie, “I think the people who are criticizing it or criticizing the idea of it, don’t really get it, because if they did, they would like it….I think that people like people to stay in their ‘box’ – they like people to stay how they are comfortable seeing them.” Or maybe they thought your recipe for banana-nut muffins sucked?

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