Gwyneth Paltrow shared a sweet family photo with her two children Apple, 20, and Moses, 18, while hosting a Q&A on Instagram for her 8.6 million followers on Friday.
After a fan asked her to share her latest snap with her youngest son, the 51-year-old Oscar winner uploaded a stunning photo of herself standing in the middle of her two children, who she shares with ex-husband Chris Martin, on an empty country road.
In the image, her daughter can be seen posing with one hand on her hip and the other lovingly wrapped around her mother’s shoulders.
Apple, who is 5’7″ tall, looked statuesque next to her mother as she smiled softly at the camera and wore a red and white checked dress.
Her brother looked like a younger version of his rocker father, wearing a brown polo shirt and tan pants as he stood next to Paltrow.
Gwyneth Paltrow shared a sweet family photo with her two children Apple, 20, and Moses, 18, while hosting a Q&A on Instagram for her 8.6 million followers on Friday.
Paltrow looked chic in a blue button-down shirt, which she kept partially unbuttoned, and flared white pants.
Later, during her Q&A, she was asked to answer which trait she loves most and which one she worries about most in her children.
“I think my kids know each other very well and that’s a trait about them that I love and admire,” she said in a video.
The Shakespeare in Love star continued: “And I think one of the things that worries me about both of them is anxiety. This is, as we know, the anxious generation. So that’s probably what worries me.”
In May, Moses, who will attend Brown University in the fall, graduated from high school.
She, Martin, 47, and the former couple’s eldest child, Apple, 20, were on hand to watch him receive his diploma.
Paltrow and the Coldplay frontman married in 2003 and split in 2014, in what the Shakespeare in Love actress described as a “conscious uncoupling.”
Since then, both have found love elsewhere: Gwyneth in her marriage to Glee co-creator Brad Falchuk, and Chris with Fifty Shades of Grey star Dakota Johnson.
Later, during her Q&A, she was asked to answer which trait she loves most and which one she worries about most in her children.
“I think my kids know each other very well and that’s a trait about them that I love and admire,” she said in a video.
However, throughout their years apart, Chris and Gwyneth have remained amicable co-parents to their two children.
In April, Gwyneth admitted she was growing increasingly worried about the prospect of being left alone with her children in the nest.
Moses, her youngest son, is headed to Brown University in Rhode Island, across the country from what Gwyneth has called her “forever home” in Montecito.
“I’m having a nervous breakdown, to be honest,” she confessed at an event for her wellness brand Goop, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“I started thinking, ‘Oh my God, I have to quit my job, I have to sell my house and I have to move.’ That’s throwing things into chaos,” she said.
“My identity has been that of a mother. Apple will be 20 years old in May. So I’ve oriented my whole life around them and their schedules and when school starts.”
She explained: “You start to slowly let go of them when they’re driving or doing certain things. It’s a slower process.”
The Shakespeare in Love star continued: “And I think one of the things that worries me about both of them is anxiety. This is, as we know, the anxious generation. So that’s probably what worries me.”
Moses, her youngest son, is headed to Brown University in Rhode Island, across the country from what Gwyneth has called her “forever home” in Montecito.
Gwyneth added: “I feel very lucky because I have a close group of mum friends and we all raised our children together. So we’re in this together.”
When she and Chris first split in 2014, she inspired widespread ridicule by referring to their split as a “conscious dissociation.”
However, in the years since, the exes have received praise for the harmony in which they have raised their children despite their divorce.
Gwyneth recently shared how important it was for her and Chris to have a friendly co-parenting relationship for the sake of Apple and Moses.
She explained that she and Chris “really didn’t want to experience divorce as a trauma,” in a cover interview with Bustle.
“To be honest, I’m having a nervous breakdown,” she confessed at an event for her wellness brand Goop, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Gwyneth added: ‘I feel very lucky because I have a close group of mum friends and we all raise our children together.’
We knew it would be difficult, of course, but we didn’t want them to feel like they were in the middle or that one of us was criticizing the other.
The wellness mogul revealed: “At that time, I did something very personal, which was when I knew I wanted to get divorced, I did this data collection talking to adults who had been products of a broken home.”
She revealed: ‘Every single one of them said, ‘I didn’t care that my parents got divorced. It wasn’t that. But the fact that they weren’t talking to each other, that they couldn’t sit down at the table for dinner on my birthday…’
“They said that was the most horrible thing. You could tell they were dealing with a lot of pain and anger. I was like, ‘That’s the one thing I’m never going to do.’ And we really didn’t.”