People Who Are Criticizing... Don't Really Get

To Be A Woman In Your Forties, I Think It's A Fantastic Decade.

I Remember When I Was Maybe 27 Years Old And Kind Of At The Height Of My Movie Stardom - It Was Around The Time Of The Oscar And This And That. I Think I Was Very Much Believing My Own Hype, Which How Could You Not? I Was Sitting With My Dad, Feeling Great About My Life And Everything That Was Happening, And He Was Like, "you Know, You're Getting A Little Weird...you're Kind Of An Asshole." And I Was Like, "what The Hell?" I Was Totally Devastated. But It Turned Out To Be Basically The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me.

Some Days I Feel Like Everyone In My World Has Plugged Themselves Into My Kidney. I'm So Tired. But When You're Having Dinner With Your Kids And Your Husband And Someone Says Something Funny Or You're Dying Laughing Because Your Three-year-old Made A Fart Joke, It Doesn't Matter What Else Is Going On. That's Real Happiess.

We Have Always Conducted Our Relationship Privately, And We Hope That As We Consciously Uncouple And Coparent, We Will Be Able To Continue In The Same Manner.

Having Survived Her 10th London Winter (she Got Through January By Assigning It "international Month," And Amusing Moses And His Big Sister, Apple, 9, With A Visiting Italian Chef, Japanese Anime Screenings, And Hand-rolled-sushi Lessons, No Less), Paltrow Admits That Her Dreams Of Relocating The Family To Their Recently Acquired Residence In Brentwood, California, Are Becoming Ever More Urgent.