Gwyneth Paltrow opens up about her parents ‘interfaith marriage’
The actress shared that her parents, Blythe Danner and Bruce Paltrow’s wedding was considered ‘scandalous’ at the time
Gwyneth Paltrow is grateful for her blended religious family and her upbringing in such an environment.
On Wednesday, Dec. 25 the actress and Goop founder reflected on her mother Blythe Danner and late father Bruce Paltrow’s interfaith marriage and talked about the struggle to make their loved ones accept it.
“My mother’s Christian, my father’s Jewish,” Gwyneth said in a video with Noa Tishby to mark the first night of Hanukkah.
“It’s interesting — I grew up in a time in the ’70s when interfaith marriage was still kind of a big deal. And so it was really hard for both of my parents’ parents that they were marrying each other.”
She went on to say, “It was a bit scandalous. Nobody was happy about it.
“They definitely grew to accept it later in life and kind of let go of all of that,” Gwyneth added.
Blythe and Bruce got married in 1969 and welcomed two children together, Gwyneth and Jake Paltrow.
However, after remaining married for 30 years, Bruce passed away in 2002 after battling with throat cancer
“I felt so fortunate because I got to grow up with these two very different worlds and very different faiths,” Gwyneth further noted.
