Gwyneth Paltrow is in her empty-nesting era — and Brad Falchuk is a big fan.
The “Glee” co-creator gushed to Vanity Fair about his wife’s “supermom” status in her April 2025 cover story published Tuesday.
“She was generally extremely happy when the kids were growing up,” Falchuk, 54, said. “She has room to feel herself now. To have her own needs and experiences and moods.”
He said that it has been “really fun to be around” Paltrow, 52, in this stage, as “she is loving it.”
The Oscar winner, for her part, opened up to the magazine about the “weird, deep grief that comes with letting go, saying goodbye and then calling into question [her] own purpose.”
The transition to her and ex-husband Chris Martin’s two children going to college has led Paltrow to ask, “Who am I now?”
The actress detailed dropping off daughter Apple, 20, and son Moses, 18, at Vanderbilt University and Brown University, respectively.
Paltrow’s eldest is a Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority member with an interdisciplinary major consisting of law, history and society.
While she did not specify her youngest’s major, the Goop founder said he is “incredible at math and … also an amazing musician.”
Paltrow called college “a great equalizer” for her nepo babies, who are “lovely and unassuming and down-to-earth.”
She added that “the energy” and “the stares” do not bother the famous siblings, explaining, “Look, they’re the children of two super-famous people, and so they understand what comes with that. They’ve grown up in it.
“There’s this deep inherent pain in letting go because we’ve paired it with protecting them, and we can’t always protect them,” she continued. “We have to deeply let go and let them have their own experience and be the kind of person that they want to boomerang back to.”
Paltrow described the tactics she used while raising her little ones elsewhere in the interview.
She explained why she never used “gentle” parenting — “it challenges their survivability in nature” — and admitted to “overcorrect[ing]” from her childhood by being “home as much as possible.”
The “Marty Supreme” star also described how her and Martin’s co-parenting dynamic has “continue[d] to evolve” since their infamous “conscious uncoupling” in 2014.
“It’s not quite brother, but we are complete family,” she explained of their relationship. “He is there for me through anything, and vice versa.”
Paltrow feels the same about Falchuk’s ex-wife, Suzanne Bukinik, with whom he shares daughter Isabella, 20, and son Brody, 19.
Bukinik even stayed with their family while evacuating the Los Angeles fires in January.
“Once you fully let go of ‘We used to sleep in the same bed’ vibes, a world of possibility opens up,” Paltrow noted. “I love Chris. I love Suzanne.”
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