Having to step into the role as a step-parent can be pretty difficult. It’s a totally different ballgame when it’s someone else’s kids , but obviously you want to do good by the new children in your life, so it can become a tough balance!
It’s a balance one Gwyneth Paltrow knows all about, as she recently opened up about how hard that transition can be and the regrets that come with it.
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Gwyneth Paltrow’s family is rather blended.
When she married Brad Falchuk in 2018, they both brought two kids into the relationship. Paltrow had her daughter Apple and son Moses, while Falchuk had his daughter Isabella and son Brody.
This means that both became step-parents, something Paltrow has recently opened up about.
“There’s just no playbook for how to do it,” she said.
She spoke about the experience on the latest episode of her Goop podcast. “I think there’s this like archetypal evil stepmother and this inference it’s going to be this fraught thing, so I came into it on tenterhooks like, ‘Oh my gosh, you can only kind of do the wrong thing.'”
She explains that she had initially been a little nervous around her step-kids.
She now feels that feeling of “trepidation”, as she put it, was her “one regret” about becoming a step-parent.
“However many years ago I was like, ‘[Expletive] it, these are my kids. I love them. I’m not gonna like be scared to discipline them.'”
She even offers advice to new step-parents.
“If someone asked me for advice on it, I would just say from day one, just really treat them as your kid.”
She really emphasizes this, adding, “I just wish I had done that earlier.”
h/t: ET Canada
