We Got Goop'd

Still Processing

The New York Times

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News, Arts

4.8 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This week, our friend and colleague, Taffy Akner, chats with us about her viral article, "How Goop’s Haters Made Gwyneth Paltrow’s Company Worth $250 Million." We trace some similarities and differences between Gwyneth and fellow mogul, Oprah, and ask why the wellness industry, ironically, can make us feel bad. Taffy helps us understand how oftentimes, when our current healthcare systems fail to take the pain and suffering of women and gender non-conforming people seriously, Goop can offer a seductive alternative — that comes at a price. Discussed this week:"How Goop’s Haters Made Gwyneth Paltrow’s Company Worth $250 Million" (Taffy Akner, The New York Times Magazine, July 25, 2018)"Our First Podcast: GP Sits Down with Oprah" (The Goop Podcast, March 8, 2018)

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0:00.0	I'm Jenna Wortham.
0:02.0	I'm Wesley Morris.
0:04.5	We're two culture writers at the New York Times.
0:08.7	And this is still processing.
0:16.7	So a couple of weeks ago, the New York Times magazine put out a story by our colleague,
0:22.1	and pal Taffy Ackner, about Goop, which is a lifestyle brand by Gwyneth Poucher that
0:29.2	started as a newsletter in 2008, exploded or...
0:33.7	Goop's into a multi-million dollar company.
0:37.6	Surprise.
0:38.6	Full of conventions, skincare products, cookbooks.
0:41.4	I mean, it's just become this huge industry.
0:43.5	Right.
0:44.5	And as it's grown into this multi-million dollar industry, these questions around what it
0:51.5	is Goop is actually prevailing have come up.
0:56.3	And who is going to have Poucher to be prevailing those things?
1:01.7	And what Taffy does in her story is ask questions about the wellness industry as exemplified
1:11.1	by a company like Goop.
1:13.6	And I think a lot about how I can be my best self.
1:18.6	I think we're in a moment where there probably isn't an American who isn't also thinking
1:23.3	about that.
1:25.0	And since the story came out, a lot of people have been talking about it.
1:29.3	It's been on my mind.
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