Gwyneth Paltrow talks about the “really difficult” process of becoming a stepmother to Brad Falchuk’s teenage children… but says they are “like my children now”

Gwyneth Paltrow has spoken candidly about the “really difficult” process of becoming a stepmother to her husband Brad Falchuk’s children.

Brad shares Isabella, 19, and Brody, 17, with his first wife and fellow TV producer Suzanne Bukinik, to whom he was married from 2002 to 2013.

He and Gwyneth, who met in 2010, were first linked in 2014, the year Gwyneth announced her separation from her first husband, Chris Martin.

On stage at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for this week’s International Visionary Women’s Day Summit, Gwyneth recalled the difficult transition.

After asking if there were any other stepmoms in the crowd, the Oscar-winning actress candidly said, “Yeah, it sucks, right, guys?” by Page six.

Jokes aside, he added: “No, actually, I really like talking about this because it is one of my greatest learnings as a human being.”

She reflected that “my area of ​​growth personally came from the difficult initial relationship I had with my stepchildren and now they are like my children.”

Although he now enjoys a warm bond with his stepchildren, he does not hesitate to admit: “The road here was really hard.”

The Royal Tenenbaums actress said, “It’s almost like you have to embody the spirit of the sun and just give and expect nothing in return.” “I learned to try to keep shining like the sun and never keep score.”

Gwyneth shares her two children, Apple, 19, and Moses, 17, with her hot ex-husband Chris Martin, of Coldplay fame.

When Chris and Gwyneth publicly split in 2014, Gwyneth inspired widespread ridicule by referring to the split as a “conscious disconnection.”

They have remained friendly and Gwyneth is even friendly with Chris’s much younger lover, Dakota Johnson, of Fifty Shades of Gray fame.

Reports have circulated this week that Chris and Dakota are engaged, with Mirror stating that Gwyneth gave her approval to the proposal.

Meanwhile, Gwyneth and Brad got married in 2018, she waited an entire year before moving all the kids into the same house together.

“We were just trying to be aware and give them a little space and not move too fast,” he later explained. Jimmy Kimmel live!.

During an Instagram Q&A last year, she acknowledged that she “found it very difficult at first” being a stepmom to Brad’s children.

‘You know, there’s no book about this; no one tells us what to do and, in fact, all existing media about what a stepmother is casts us in this evil, villainous light. So it’s like trying to avoid landmines,” she explained.

‘And then you’re entering a family with dynamics. And there’s all kinds of fear around loss and what does this person want to say?

She revealed that “for me, the moment I decided and fully embodied the idea that my stepchildren were my children and I loved them so much and gave them the same rules and boundaries, and I just wholeheartedly opted for then, the easier became the whole thing. And now it’s pretty good.’