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.
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“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.
They were married for more than 30 years before Bruce‘s death in 2002 at age 58 due to throat cancer.
“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,” Gwyneth added. “I came to find out that we are from 17 generations of rabbis.”
“My most favorite is when I go back to being at my grandparents’ house on Long Island and getting the Hanukkah gelt. I have such a strong memory of the gold round coins and my brother and I tearing into them,” she added.
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