Gwyneth Paltrow has said her parents' interfaith marriage was 'scandalous' for their respective families when they tied the knot in the 1960s. The 52-year-old wellness mogul is the daughter of Meet The Parents actress Blythe Danner and the late director Bruce Paltrow.
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Blythe, who is Christian, and Bruce, who was Jewish, tied the knot in 1969 and remained together until he died of cancer in 2002 at the age of 58. As a little girl, Gwyneth was raised celebrating holidays from both traditions and has apparently continued to do so into adulthood.
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Now she has shed more light on her ecumenical upbringing, in a video with Israeli activist Noa Tishby about Hanukkah. 'I grew up in a time in the '70s where I think it's still - like interfaith marriage was still kind of a big deal,' the Shakespeare In Love actress shared.
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Gwyneth Paltrow has said her parents' interfaith marriage was 'scandalous' for their respective families when they tied the knot in the 1960s; she is pictured this month. The 52-year-old wellness mogul is the daughter of Blythe Danner and the late Bruce Paltrow; Gwyneth is pictured with her parents at the 1999 Oscars, where she won best actress.
'And so it was really hard for both of my parents' parents that they were marrying each other, and it was a bit scandalous,' she revealed. 'Nobody was happy about it,' she confessed, adding that the families 'definitely grew to accept it later in life and they've kind of let go of all of that.'.
