Gwyneth Paltrow has admitted that she and husband Chris Martin are discussing plans for adoption, and she says that unlike celeb friends like Madonna, who adopt from developing countries, she'd like to adopt a child from Brooklyn.
“We might get one from Brooklyn,” she said.
“No baby is more helpless than another baby. And I’m a New York girl.”
And with that, Gwynnie has officially won me over a bit. Eschewing the flashy, photo-op-rich dash into a war-torn country to rescue a bedraggled child in favour of quietly adopting a needy child at home? That's classy. Because she's right: all abandoned babies are helpless, and need love, not just the ones who come with UN-approved stamps on their foreheads.
(Also? I was won over by Chris Martin recently when I saw his self-mocking appearance on the Ricky Gervais show Extras. He's clearly a big ol' doofus. And if Gwyneth's not as vapidly, veganly pious as I once thought her to be, then hellz - maybe they're really not bad people after all. I don't know that I'd have them over for spinach nuggets and hummus, but still. It's progress.)
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