Gwyneth Paltrow loves to coin her own phrases and then just use them like they are real phrases that exist that we all know. Like, she fully invents her own figures of speech because our pedestrian way of talking is simply not elevated enough to describe la vida Paltrow. When she and Chris Martin got divorced, she said they “consciously uncoupled.” And now she’s added another term to the Gooptionary: free bird.
It’s not just a song by Lynyrd Skynyrd! In a new profile in People, the Oscar winner explains that as she prepares to send her son, Moses, off to college (daughter Apple is already a college sophomore), she is not an empty nester. She’s a “free bird.” Or maybe the kids are the free birds? I’ll be the first to admit I don’t get this. But I’m willing to give it a try. “Aunt Sally and Uncle Pat just started fostering puppies; they’ve got a lot more room in their house and time on their hands now that they’re…free birds.” Well, okay! But when we call her a nepo baby, it’s mean?
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