Gwyneth has always been selling what money can't buy

Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, Gwyneth Paltrow was the platonic ideal of the It Girl and Hollywood nepo-baby, dating Brad Pitt and Ben Affleck and winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Shakespeare in Love.

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Then, in 2008, Paltrow engineered a career detour nobody quite saw coming: She launched a website and free weekly newsletter recommending her favorite restaurants, travel destinations, luxury hotels, fashion boutiques and day spas — a Gwyneth Hot List, you could say.

Thus was the birth of Goop, a trailblazing platform in wellness, style and beauty that in less than a decade grew into a sprawling media and e-commerce enterprise. It has, at various times, sold clothing, beauty products, homeware and a meal delivery service, and produced travel guides, cookbooks, a newsletter, a podcast, conferences and a Netflix series.