9. Paltrow had started acting as a young girl and then started earning small movie roles like Shout and Hook.
10. Steven Spielberg cast her in Hook.
11. The actress then traveled to Spain and learnt Spanish, and even studied Anthropology.
12. She starred in “Cruel Doubt”(1992).
13. The actress then dropped out of the art history from at the University of California.
14. By 1995, the actress had appeared in Se7en with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman.
15. Her romance with Brad Pitt then blossomed:
“I definitely fell in love with him. He was so gorgeous and sweet and, I mean, he was Brad Pitt, you know?” had said. The couple was engaged before they called it as because she felt she was not ready to take the next step.
“I was such a kid,” she then added.
“I mean I was 22 when we met and it’s taken me until 40 to get my head out of my ass. You can’t make a decision when you’re 22 years old.”
16. The couple then broke up 3 years later.
17. The actress won roles in Emma, Great Expectations and A Perfect Murder.
18. By 1998, she had won the Oscar for Best Actress .
19. The actress denies that she had stolen the role of “Shakespeare in Love” from Winona Ryder.
20. Paltrow’s friendship with Winona Ryder had come to and ended by the 1990s.
21. The actress then dated Ben Affleck and had an on-off relationship for 3 years.
22. When the actress had split with Affleck, her parents were not that sad.
“I think they appreciated how [Affleck] is super intelligent, and he’s really, really talented and he’s funny. But he wasn’t in a good place in his life to have a girlfriend so I think they were okay with — they loved him — but they were okay with us not being [together],” she said.
