Gwyneth Paltrow celebrated her 50th birthday in her birthday suit! The actress stripped down for a sexy shoot that made her look like a trophy.The Shakespeare in Love star, who reached the major milestone on Tuesday, September 27, shared a photo of herself via Instagram completely naked, covered in gold paint.
Additional photos were shared on Paltrow’s lifestyle website, Goop, where she opened up about the empowering experience.“All I know is that they’re painting me gold and that I have to be naked,” the California native said. “I feel so good turning 50, and this is about expressing that sense of energy and optimism that I’m experiencing.” Paltrow added that the shoot was “about the female gaze and just sense of fun.”The shimmery look was brought to life by Lottie, a Los Angeles-based makeup artist. “We were going for golden goddess,” the beauty guru said. “I was going to be painting GP gold, so I had to make sure the skin on her face and body was very, very moisturized.”Paltrow’s sultry shoot comes after she revealed her thoughts on turning 50 in a Goop essay published on Thursday, September 23.“On September 27, I’ll turn 50,” Paltrow began in the article, which included a photo of her jumping for joy in a string bikini. “As I sit here contemplating this idea in the late summer morning, no moisture in the air, breeze moving only the tops of the trees, I strangely have no sense of the time passed.”She went on to share that as she ages, life for her “seems to be getting sweeter.”“I understand on some level that life is linear, that I have lived x number of days thus far and I have more in the basket under my arm than I do in the field before me.
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