GOOP 2.0

As everyone knows, I am a HUGE FAN of Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle newsletter, GOOP. (Ha ha I am not a huge fan.) So I'm sure you can only imagine the excitement with which I met the news that also-privileged, also-white, also-thin, also-straight-and-married-to-a-famous-white-dude, also-wealthy, also-from-an-acting-family Blake Lively is also-launching her own very GOOP-esque lifestyle project:
"It's something that will be launching in a few months and that I'm really, really thrilled about. The main element of it is that it's about storytelling and it's about living a very one-of-a-kind, curated life, and how to achieve that. There's nothing like it out there - it's without a genre," Lively told us. "I have so many passions outside of acting and things that I grew up being good at and that I don't utilise when acting. Acting was something that my family did so I just kind of got into it by default, but there was so much that I cultivated, thinking that I wouldn't be an actor."
Terrific! Just terrific.

I can't wait to be one of millions (?) (fingers crossed!) people who follow all of Lively's suggestions for living a one-of-a-kind life! We will all be living the coolest one-of-a-kind life together!

Because I'm sure we can all agree that: 1. There can't be too many privileged white ladies telling us how to live "curated lives." 2. If there is anyone who is qualified to tell you how to live a one-of-a-kind life, it's someone who is literally copying someone else's garbage lifestyle project for the aspirationally wealthy and tells you it's so unique that it transcends genre. Sign me the fuck up.

[H/T to Shaker MMC.]

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