Gwyneth Paltrow dishes on her parents’ ‘scandalous’ interfaith marriage: ‘Nobody was happy about it’

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first night of Hanukkah on Wednesday, the Goop founder, 52, lit the candles with Noa Tishby in a video posted to 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 explained. “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 share son Jake Paltrow, 49.Bruce and Blythe were married for more than 30 years before the producer’s death in 2002 at age 58 after a years-long battle with throat cancer.Paltrow also touched on her own upbringing, telling Tishby, “I felt so fortunate because I got to grow up with these two very different worlds and very different faiths.

I always felt an incredible pull to my Jewish family — I still do. And just the traditions and the warmth and the unconditional love.

And the food and the yelling and the family!”The Oscar winner, who shares kids Apple, 20, and Moses, 18, with ex-husband Chris Martin, noted, “I’m so close to everybody on that side of my family.”“We’re all kind of interwoven and so important to each other and just show up for each other again and again and again,” she continued.