Why Fans Are Blasting Gwyneth Paltrow's 'Almond Mom' Diet
'This sounds like the opposite of wellness,' one TikToker said.
Gwyneth Paltrow is no stranger to controversy, and she's found herself in the middle of the next big thing with a wellness routine that many have pointed out seems to glorify eating disorders.
Dear Media shared a clip from the Goop founder's latest interview, which took place on their podcast The Art Of Being Well, on TikTok, but, let's just say, her "daily wellness routine" didn't seem to hit with a single listener—and for good reason.
Paltrow's meal plans seem to fall in line with an eating disorder called Orthorexia, where you think you are eating extremely healthy but in actuality are restricting calories or types of foods to an unhealthy degree.
While sharing her current "wellness routine" with host—and "functional medicine expert"—Dr. Will Cole, she shared that in the morning, she'll have "some things that won't spike [her] blood sugar," like a cup of coffee.
For lunch, she usually eats something around noon. "I really like soup for lunch," she continued, revealing that the soup she eats most days is actually just bone broth.
She went on on, "[I] try to do one hour of movement, so I'll either take a walk or I'll do pilates or I'll do my Tracy Anderson [a fitness instructor who has created a series of at-home workouts]." After, she dry brushes and then hops into the sauna for half an hour.
"And then for dinner [which she eats early in the evening for an intermittent fast], I try to eat, you know, according to paleo. So, lots of vegetables. It's really important for me to support my detox."
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But viewers were concerned about, well, everything.
"Is starving wellness?" one commenter questioned, while another asked, "What is she detoxing from if she doesn't eat?"
"Broth ain’t lunch girlypop," another comment read.
"This literally sounds like a colonoscopy prep," another pointed out, while several others likened her wellness routine to an eating disorder.
Basically, as one comment read, "This sounds like the opposite of wellness ??"
In fact, several specifically called her out for her "almond mom" behavior, with one naming her "the mother of all almond moms" and another dubbing her the "almond mom final boss."
"Almond mom realness ?," another wrote.
This term originates with a video of Yolanda Hadid telling her model daughter Gigi to eat a few almonds and chew them really well after she began feeling weak, leading many social media users to open up about their own histories with disordered eating as introduced and/or encouraged by a parent.
Clearly, TikTokers weren't on board with the routine.
"I eat one almond but I cut it into 30 segments and eat it throughout my day to keep me nourished??," another criticized.
"I take two really big gulps of air like twice every hour and am like so satisfied all day," someone else joked.
"I’m so relieved with these comments. Young people are following her and she’s telling them this bs! ??," another viewer noted, going on to tag Jameela Jamil—who has been incredibly vocal about bringing down diet culture throughout the years—though the actress has not made mention of it thus far.