Gwyneth Paltrow Born: September 27, 1972
Known for: Acting, being a vegetarian, naming her child after a fruit.
Twiggy straight-haired blonde Gwyneth Paltrow doesn't look like the curvy, borscht-fed shtetl goddesses of our Yiddishe dreams. In fact, she looks like the enchantingly exotic shiksa WASPs on whom the New York contingent of our scattered people tend to neurotically fixate. But wouldn't you know it, Gwyneth is descended on her director father Bruce Paltrow's side from a prominent clan of Eastern European Jewish rabbis, who bore the significantly schmaltzier surname Paltrowitch in the Old Country. And although her Quaker mother keeps Paltrow from full club membership, she has expressed much pride in her Jewish roots, and claims to fast on Yom Kippur as a tribute to her uber-holy ancestors, and (we think) as atonement for marrying irritating neo-Bono Chris Martin.
Twiggy straight-haired blonde Gwyneth Paltrow doesn't look like the curvy, borscht-fed shtetl goddesses of our Yiddishe dreams. In fact, she looks like the enchantingly exotic shiksa WASPs on whom the New York contingent of our scattered people tend to neurotically fixate. But wouldn't you know it, Gwyneth is descended on her director father Bruce Paltrow's side from a prominent clan of Eastern European Jewish rabbis, who bore the significantly schmaltzier surname Paltrowitch in the Old Country. And although her Quaker mother keeps Paltrow from full club membership, she has expressed much pride in her Jewish roots, and claims to fast on Yom Kippur as a tribute to her uber-holy ancestors, and (we think) as atonement for marrying irritating neo-Bono Chris Martin.
