Gwyneth Paltrow is making headlines in more ways than one this week: In addition to her and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin's split, the Hollywood star is taking the Internet by storm following a controversial interview with E! News.
"I think it's different when you have an office job, because it's routine and, you know, you can do all the stuff in the morning and then you come home in the evening," she told E! "When you're shooting a movie, they're like, 'We need you to go to Wisconsin for two weeks,' and then you work 14 hours a day and that part of it is very difficult. I think to have a regular job and be a mom is not as, of course there are challenges, but it's not like being on set."
The statement was meant to clarify her decision to "go back to mommy" now that she's finished up filming the 100th episode of "Glee" and a film with Johnny Depp.
"I have a rule about one movie a year, so I can't shoot anything for a while, but I'm developing some material and working on the site [Goop] and raising kids," she said.
Not surprisingly, the sentiment hasn't gone over well with many.
In one open letter published in the New York Post, working mom Mackenzie Dawson slammed the A-lister's comments.
"After I get home from work, I'm full of energy and ready to cook dinner using one of the recipes you post on your lifestyle Web site, Goop: slow-cooked kale, pancetta and bread crumbs, anyone?" she writes. "After that, I'll go to yoga, spend a few hours meditating and maybe do some online shopping, picking up a pair of $350 white leopard-printed short-shorts via Goop in preparation for the 'spring break' I'll take with my husband and son."
Paltrow, 41, and Martin, 37, have two kids - Apple, 9, and Moses, 7. The couple announced their "uncoupling" after 11 years of marriage March 25.
"It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate," they wrote on Paltrow's journal Goop. "We have been working hard for well over a year, some of it together, some of it separated, to see what might have been possible between us, and we have come to the conclusion that while we love each other very much we will remain separate."
