Most actors can only dream of winning an Oscar, few actually do, even fewer use their Oscar awards as décor – except Gwyneth Paltrow that is.
In a recent video for Vogue‘s 73 Questions series, the Goop founder was traipsing through her home when interviewer Joe Sabia spotted Paltrow’s Oscar award acting as a doorstop for her backdoor.
“What a beautiful Academy Award,” Sabia said.
Watch the clip above.
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Paltrow turned around with a smile and joked: “My doorstop. It works perfectly!”
The actress won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1999 for her leading role in the film Shakespeare in Love. Wearing a pink Ralph Lauren gown, Paltrow tearfully accepted the monumental win.
However, it’s hardly surprising that Paltrow keeps her Oscar as a doorstop, the actress has been vocal about the complicated relationship she had with fame and acting following her 1999 win.
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“For weeks after I won I kept it in storage,” Paltrow admitted in a 2005 interview. “I won’t even put it on the mantlepiece, the thing freaks me out.”
The Goop founder also told Call Her Daddy host, Alex Cooper earlier this year that her Oscar win wasn’t the positive experience she hoped it would be.
“Once I won the Oscar, it put me into a little bit of an identity crisis, because if you win the biggest prize, like what are you supposed to do?” she continued. “And where are you supposed to go? It was hard, like, the amount of attention that you receive on a night like that and the weeks following is so disorienting and frankly, really unhealthy.”
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“I remember the British press being so horrible to me because I cried,” she added. “They didn’t necessarily know that my grandfather was dying of cancer, my dad who was in the audience with me had had all this crazy cancer treatment and he was really debilitated. It was just this totally overwhelming moment, and, you know, I was 26.”
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As a result of intense public scrutiny, Paltrow took a step back from Hollywood and instead launched the wellness newsletter Goop in 2008. In 2016 she took over Goop as CEO.
Paltrow isn’t the only celebrity to use her prestigious Hollywood awards as décor. Back in 2016, Taylor Swift revealed to Vogue that she keeps her infamous VMA moon man award right next to her coffee machine.
