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Gwyneth: "We're Flying 'No Class'?"

We talk to Amy Odell about her new biography of the actress and "wellness" leader who apparently once farted on someone's head?!?

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Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan
Jul 29, 2025
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We’ve been reading (and linking to) Amy Odell’s work for years, and you may have, too: her Substack, Back Row; her posts as a founding writer at The Cut, which is when we first met her, during our time covering Fashion Week for them; her book Tales From The Back Row; and of course her seminal Anna Wintour biography, Anna. Amy as a person is funny and thoughtful and full of insight, so it’s no surprise that her writing is, too — all talents she’s most recently applied to Gwyneth: The Biography, the new unauthorized compendium of stories and research about the life and times of the deeply polarizing Paltrow, a book which by all rights should be Amy’s second New York Times bestseller, and which comes out today. You’d better believe we jumped at a chance to ask her about how she pulled together a project of this magnitude, and over on Go Fug Yourself today, we’re giving away a copy if you haven’t ordered yours yet. (Or even if you have! Give someone who lov…

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