Gwyneth Paltrow Says Her Parents' Interfaith Marriage Was 'Scandalous'

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Gwyneth Paltrow is reflecting on her family. While celebrating Hanukkah with Noa Tishby, the 52-year-old actress and Goop founder revealed that her mother Blythe Danner and late father Bruce Paltrow caused some scandal with their romance. Keep reading to find out more… “My mother’s Christian, my father’s Jewish,” she 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,” she continued, adding, “They definitely grew to accept it later in life and kind of let go of all of that.” “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!” she went on to say. Her parents got married in 1969 and shared two children: Gwyneth and her younger brother Jake Paltrow, 49.