Gwyneth Paltrow dishes on her parents’ ‘scandalous’ interfaith marriage: ‘Nobody was happy about it’
NY Post
Gwyneth Paltrow is reflecting on her parents’ marriage.
In honor of the first night of Hanukkah on Wednesday, the Goop founder, 52, lit the candles with Noa Tishby in a video posted on YouTube.
In the clip, Paltrow revealed that it was a journey for her mother, Blythe Danner, and late father, Bruce Paltrow, to be accepted as a couple by their loved ones.
“My mother’s Christian, my father’s Jewish,” the actress said. “It’s interesting — I grew up in a time in the ’70s where interfaith marriage was still kind of a big deal. And so it was really hard for both of my parents’ parents that they were marrying each other.”
“It was a bit scandalous. Nobody was happy about it,” Paltrow added. “They definitely grew to accept it later in life and kind of let go of all of that.”
Danner, 81, and Bruce married in 1969 and, along with the “Shallow Hal” star, the pair had son Jake Paltrow, 49.
