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Gwyneth Paltrow Trivia
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- As part of research for her role as an obese woman in Shallow Hal (2001), Gwyneth wore the 200 pound latex "fat" suit she used for the film to a bar where people refused to make eye contact with her and treated her rudely. She then said that this experience made her saddened by the injustice faced by overweight people in society.
- Her name can be heard over the P.A. system in many episodes of the medical drama "St. Elsewhere." Gwyneth's dad, Bruce Paltrow, was the producer of the series.
- Husband, Chris Martin, is lead singer of the band Coldplay
- Has been friends with Maya Rudolph (of Saturday Night Live fame) since she was seven.
- Her mother, Blythe Danner, is of Anglo-Saxon descent and her father, Bruce Paltrow, was Polish-Jewish, with her father's side having contained many generations of rabbis.
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