Welcome to the Who What Wear podcast, your direct line to the designers, stylists, beauty experts, editors, and tastemakers who are shaping the ever-evolving world of fashion. I'm Who What Wears

Co-Founder and Chief Content Officer Hillary Kerr, and today I'm speaking with the fashion and culture

journalist and author, Amy O'Dell. Amy first joined me on the pod in 2022 to chat about her biography

of legendary Vogue editor Anna Winter.

And now she's back to discuss her newest book, Gwyneth, a page-turning biography of the

Oscar award-winning actress and Goop founder, Gwyneth Paltrow.

In this highly researched and detailed account, Amy goes behind the scenes of Gwyneth's life of

cultural influence from 90's style icon to polarizing wellness mogul. But how do you write a

biography about a woman who won't agree to an interview? How do you find sources when so many people

are afraid to go on the record? How do you paint a full picture of a complicated woman who is loved and triggers so many people?

Amy's here to answer all of those questions and more.

It's all coming up on who what, where.

First of all, welcome back to the show.

I am so excited to have you here in no small part because, one, you're a fascinating guest, but two, because we are here to talk about your newest project.

I have been feverishly reading. It cannot put it down, Gwyneth

the biography. It is so fabulous and hugely compelling and thought provoking, and I have been

harassing my husband with tidbits from it and our company Slack with information from it.

It is so good. So I just wanted to say personally,

thank you for writing such an excellent book. This is a delight. Thank you. You're making

me feel like a million bucks. I mean, it's an amazing book. Your last biography, the incredible

intimate biography of Anna Winter was phenomenal as well. Why did you decide to focus on

Gwyneth Paltrow for this project? Yeah, so there are not that many people who have had real

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