Sophia Michaels
Chris Martin is the antithesis of a Hollywood A-lister. The singer actively shuns the spotlight as much as he avoids stylists. According to GQ, Martin wore the same purple T-shirt daily for six months while promoting Coldplay’s latest album. So, it’s a little challenging to get your head around a Hollywood darling like Gwyneth Paltrow, who loves haute couture and steam cleaning her lady parts, falling for a schlub, albeit a superstar schlub, who Elle claims has “basically only worn one T-shirt since 2015” — they clearly missed his purple phase.
But, sometimes opposites attract. “When I met him, there was a very deep thing there,” Paltrow told Alex Cooper. “And I couldn’t quite put my finger on it because it felt very different than my other relationships.” She cryptically confessed their relationship wasn’t any “healthier” than others she’s had but that she experienced “this deep calling on some level. I knew he was going to be the father of my kids, maybe or something.”
Per Billboard, Paltrow and Martin married a year after meeting in 2002. They had two kids, Apple and Moses Martin, before “consciously uncoupling” in 2014. Paltrow shared the moment she knew her relationship with Martin was over in excruciating detail. “I don’t remember which day of the weekend it was or the time of day,” she wrote in British Vogue. “But I knew – despite long walks and longer lie-ins, big glasses of Barolo, and hands held – my marriage was over.”
