Gwyneth Paltrow Goes Pantsless ‘in Honor’ of This ‘Goop Podcast’ Guest

Gwyneth Paltrow is a pro at making a statement. 

In a series of images shared to her Instagram account in a Monday, Sept. 29 carousel, the Marty Supreme actress, 53, showed off a head-turning way to welcome a then-upcoming guest on The Goop Podcast.

“in honor of tomorrow’s podcast guest,” the Academy Award-winning actress and entrepreneur captioned a set of six photos. 

In the first photo, Paltrow can be seen sitting pantsless in a styling chair while wearing a white robe with one leg up and crossed over the other. 

The mirror selfie also showed Paltrow wearing a pair of bold, black aviator glasses.

In later snaps, the Iron Man actress modeled several more outfits — including a classic black halter-neck dress, a relaxed fit gray T-shirt dress with short sleeves paired with black slip-on sandals, and two black-and-white looks. 

And her cover photo wasn’t the only time in the carousel that Paltrow went pantsless. 

Those bold black aviators made another appearance as she paired them with a striped white button-down blouse and brown undies. 

No other clues were offered as to who Paltrow’s guest would be in the photos, but on Tuesday, Sept. 30, it was revealed to be actress Kelly Rutherford.

“Muse. Mother. Icon,” the Shallow Hal star and The Goop Podcast captioned a joint post on Instagram, which also included a clip of Paltrow and Rutherford talking during their interview.

The caption continued, “@kellyrutherford on love, resilience, and living with intention — new episode of the @goop podcast out now.”

“The 90s, we kind of could,” the Gossip Girl alum, 56, said in the reel. “It was still okay to sit in the bathtub with a cigarette, have a good cry, it was normal.”

Rutherford, who played Lily van der Woodsen, a mother of two and New York socialite on the series, has long been known for her “effortlessly elegant style.”

Paltrow pulled off similar looks not just in her Instagram carousel, but also at her rare New York Fashion Week appearance earlier this month. 

The Shakespeare in Love actress attended the Michael Kors spring/summer 2026 show in New York City on Sept. 11, her first in eight years.

For the outing, Paltrow wore a chic, nearly monochromatic look consisting of a gray sweater with a white long-sleeve shirt underneath, which she paired with a gray pleated wool skirt. 

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Paltrow completed her look with black pointed-toe pumps and wore her blonde hair straight and styled parted down the middle.

Her previous NYFW outing prior to this month’s was the Calvin Klein fall/winter show in February 2017.