Gwyneth Paltrow shared a new photo from her son Moses’ high school graduation after admitting to having a “nervous breakdown” about being an empty nester.
Less than a month after watching her youngest son, 18, receive his diploma alongside her ex-husband, Chris Martin, the proud mother, 51, shared a never-before-seen photo with her teenager, who will be attending the Brown University in the fall.
While doing a Q&A on her Instagram Story on Friday, the Oscar winner opted to share a sweet photo of herself giving Moses a kiss on the cheek when asked to post the “last photo” of her and her friends. children of your camera roll.
Although not featured in her latest post about the ceremony, Martin, 47, and the former couple’s daughter, Apple, 20, also attended Moses’ graduation.
She and the Coldplay frontman married in 2003 and separated in 2014, in what the Shakespeare in Love actress described as a “conscious disconnection.”
Gwyneth Paltrow shared a new photo from her son Moses’ high school graduation after admitting to having a “nervous breakdown” about being an empty nester.
Since then, they’ve both found love elsewhere: Gwyneth in her marriage to Glee co-creator Brad Falchuk, and Chris with Fifty Shades of Gray star Dakota Johnson.
However, throughout their years apart, Chris and Gwyneth have remained amicable parents to their two children.
In April, Gwyneth admitted her growing anxiety at the prospect of becoming an empty 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.
“If I’m honest, I’m having a nervous breakdown,” she confessed at an event for her wellness brand Goop, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“I started saying, ‘Oh my God, I need to quit my job, I need to sell my house, and I need to move.’ It’s kind of a chaos in things,” he said.
‘My identity has been being a mother. Apple will turn 20 years old in May. That’s why I’ve oriented my entire life around them, their schedules and when classes start.’
She explained: “You start to let go little by little when they drive or do certain things. It is a slower process.”
Less than a month after watching her youngest son, 18, receive his diploma alongside her ex-husband, Chris Martin, the proud mother, 51, shared a never-before-seen photo with her teenager, who will be attending the Brown University in the fall
Last month, Gwyneth praised her son when she wished him a happy 18th birthday, praising his “sensitivity, brilliance and calm humor.”
Gwyneth added: “I feel very lucky because I have a close group of mom friends and we all raise our children together.” So we are in this together.”
When she and Chris first split in 2014, she inspired widespread ridicule by referring to their split as a “conscious disconnection.”
However, in the intervening years, the exes have received plaudits for the harmony with 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 them to experience divorce as a trauma,” in a cover interview with Bustle.
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.
‘It’s like I’m having a nervous breakdown, if I’m honest,’ 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 mom friends and we all raise our children together.”
“We knew it would be difficult, of course, but we didn’t want them to ever feel in the middle, or for one of us to be criticizing the other.”
The wellness mogul revealed: “At that time, I did something very personal, and that’s when I knew I wanted to get divorced, I collected data and talked to adults who had been the product of a broken home.”
She revealed: “Each of them said, ‘I didn’t care that my parents were getting divorced. That wasn’t all. But the fact that they didn’t talk to each other, that they couldn’t both sit at the table. “A table for my birthday…”
‘They said that was the most horrible thing. You could see that they held him with a lot of pain and anger. I was like, “That’s what I’m never going to do.” And we really didn’t.