The actress also promoted a $75 candle that smells like her vagina.
Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle brand Goop is receiving waves of backlash after its annual Christmas list included some unconventional items at absurd prices.
The 51-year-old actress is accused of being severely “out of touch” after her store featured products like a $15,000 24-karat gold Inez G-spot vibrator and this $5,000 pair of Chanel roller skates.
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Buyers and editors on Paltrow’s team spent months “researching and testing options” to get ready for the holiday season.
Gifts on Goop’s website were categorized into 10 categories, such as wellness, lover’s, and traveler’s gift guides.
The “ridiculous but amazing gift guide” was the notable section that sent viewers into an unstoppable frenzy.
In addition to the vibrator and roller skates, the category featured a $2,000 gong and a $200 workshop to help shoppers find their ideal gong with the help of a “gong master.”
The list also included a $1,925 Hermes Cavaletti doghouse and a $14,850 Alexandra Llewellyn backgammon set.
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He Iron Man The actress also urged customers to try a $400 piece of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese that has been aged for two years.
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The numbers are a little hard to digest, so you may have to sit down to read this one…
The most expensive gift of all was a getaway to an eco-resort in Fiji called Turtle Island. The website boldly lists the price at $39,500 per NIGHT at the resort.
Needless to say, fans were not at all impressed with the extravagant prices. Reddit users had a lot to say on the platform.
“They are so hilariously out of touch that I actually find them charming,” one user commented.
“There are a lot of expensive things here, but ‘find your perfect gong with the help of a gong master’ was really the strangest thing,” said another.
“God, that made me cringe,” another user added. “Are Fijians paid an equitable amount of that 30,000ish a day to be part of the tourist experience? “Just disgusting.”
“Yeah [Gwyneth] one day he comes out and says this whole person was an intricate piece of performance art, I would support him getting an Oscar just for that,” commented another bewildered user.
What is Goop?
The actress launched the wellness brand in 2008. It originally started as a newsletter before growing into a multimillion-dollar company.
This isn’t the first time Paltrow has faced negative reactions to her brand’s products. In 2020, the Possession The actress was heavily trolled for selling a $75 candle that smelled like her vagina.
“This Smells Like My Vagina” was described as “fun, beautiful, sexy and wonderfully unexpected.”
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Goop’s website goes on to explain that the candle “started as a joke between perfumer Douglas Little and GP; The two were working on a fragrance and she blurted out, ‘Uhhh… this smells like vagina,’ but it evolved into a candle. A fun, beautiful, sexy and wonderfully unexpected scent.”
Months later, Paltrow let go of the candle that “smelled like an orgasm.”
Goop also supported bee sting therapy, a practice that uses real bee stings to treat ailments.
$75 for a candle is unrealistic for us commoners, but someone is buying it to make Gwyneth’s company thrive so well.
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