When we mere mortals feel faint and off-kilter and fear we're having a major health emergency, and really we've just gotten too much sun or had too little to eat, we file away our crazy little moment among our embarrassing stories shared only with close friends and family.
But when Gwyneth Paltrow has such an episode, she writes a cookbook. Her latest tome, "It's All Good," begins with the actress-turned-lifestyle guru's harrowing tale.
"One sunny afternoon in London, in the spring of 2011, I thought — without sounding overly dramatic — that I was going to die," she writes. "I had just served lunch in the garden at home . . . I had a vague feeling that I was going to faint, and I wasn't forming thoughts correctly . . . I got a searing pain in my head, I couldn't speak, and I felt as if I couldn't breathe. I thought I was having a stroke."
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Gwyneth Paltrow, here at the 2012 Met Ball, looks stick-thin. Her new cookbook (inset) details her punishing diet.
Turns out, it was a migraine and a panic attack.
In the book, out April 2, Paltrow offers recipes for and insights into the strict miracle diet that her doctor put her on for three weeks to "clear out [her] system, heal [her] gut and revive her [body]."
Among the diet's forbidden foods: coffee, eggs, sugar, shellfish, deepwater fish, potatoes, tomatoes, bell pepper, eggplant, corn, wheat and meat.
The prescription was, she writes, "tough words for a foodie to hear."
Paltrow has been pushing herself as a "foodie" for years. In 2007, she took a culinary tour of Spain with Mario Batali while refusing to eat the pork for which the country is known. The following year, she launched Goop,
her embarrassingly un-self-conscious lifestyle Web site.
Despite rampant mockery, she's persisted with the site, offering up recipes, sharing her favorite $600 chef's knives and even adding an e-commerce component to hawk Goop exclusive clothing and accessories.
And now, with her second cookbook, she is once again promoting herself as a foodie and a health guru, despite a weird obsession that treats eating with a greater sense of restriction than relish.
The book reads like the manifesto to some sort of creepy healthy-girl sorority with members who use beet juice rather than permanent marker to circle the "problem areas" on each other's bodies. "Mealtimes should always feel happy. Not like a punishment," Paltrow assures us in the introduction, leaving us to wonder just what dinnertime torture she's previously endured.
She recounts how "lots of french fries and wine" were in part to blame for her health issues, but it's hard to imagine the Waspy poster girl for self-restraint actually overindulging, especially after she notes that she was also "severely anemic" and "vitamin D deficient" — ailments more common to those who don't indulge enough. This is, after all, a woman who recently told Redbook magazine that her "favorite thing" was kicking off the New Year with a three-week detox diet.
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