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are fertile ground for mining our own identities—who we are and who we want to be. There are a few obvious places the mind goes when pondering such existential questions:The Talented Mr. Ripley
–era Gwyneth with near-perfect blonde and body. But let us not forget Manhattan teen Gwyneth in a leather jacket, gold hoops, and an enviable side swoop of hair; ’90s-era fashion-show Gwyneth, front row and double-fisting a cocktail and a cigarette; and oft-forgotten but still worthy of consideration goth Gwyneth, when the Oscar winner andtraded in her cornsilk strands for a deeper shade of espresso that she accessorized with occasional swipes of oxblood lipstick.
No less aspirational is present-day Gwyneth: business boss Gwyneth; blissfully happy-seeming in her second marriage Gwyneth; approaching middle age and not afraid to talk about it Gwyneth. “I had a full midlife crisis when I was turning 40, and I went to this doctor and had a really bad injectable experience,” reveals Paltrow, who turned 49 yesterday. “I came out a complete monster, and I was like, I can’t do this anymore.
What Paltrow refers to as “the purified aspect” of the neurotoxin made it an easy sell when the pharmaceutical brand recently asked the queen of clean beauty to become an ambassador. “Xeomin has removed a lot of the proteins that other companies have in their neurotoxins, which makes it less likely to tamper with our immune systems,” New York dermatologist Michelle Henry, M.D., suggests of the toxin’s minimal-ingredient promise.