Gwyneth Paltrow Says Becoming a Stepmom to Brad Falchuk's Kids Was ‘Really Hard at First’

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shares two children—, 19, and Moses, 17—with ex-husband , she's also the stepmom of current husband own kids: Isabella, 19, and Brody, 17.

Though the 50-year-old Goop mogul married the 52-year-old television producer in 2018, Paltrow recently revealed that it took a minute for her to grow into that role in his kids' lives."I did find it really hard at first," Paltrow shared during a candid Instagram Q+A on August 30, per . "You know, there’s no book on this; nobody tells us what to do.

And, in fact, all of the existing media around what a stepmother is casts us in this evil, villainous light. So it’s kind of like trying to avoid land mines.

And then you’re going into a family with dynamics. And there’s all kinds of fear around loss and what does this person mean?"She continued, “But for myself, the minute I decided, and fully embodied the idea that my step kids were my kids and I love them just as much and I gave them the same rules and boundaries, and just kind of whole-heartedly went for it, then the easier the whole thing got.