Gwyneth Paltrow Really, Really Wants You To Know She Was "One Of The First People" To Have COVID-19 And One Of The First To Wear A Face Mask
"This is a familiar pattern in my life."
You know Gwyneth Paltrow.

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Back in February 2020 — right before the COVID-19 pandemic really took hold in the US — the actor and Goop guru posted a selfie while wearing a mask.
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Paltrow was asked about the snap in a recent interview with the New York Times, and her response was, well, very Gwyneth Paltrow–esque.
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"This is a familiar pattern in my life," she said. "I do something early, everyone is like, 'What is she doing? She’s insane.' And then it’s adopted by the culture."
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She did get an education on pandemics from working on Contagion.
Indeed, all of this does feel familiar — like, say, the time that Paltrow claimed that she "discovered" yoga.
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"I went to do a yoga class in LA recently and the 22-year-old girl behind the counter was like, ‘Have you ever done yoga before?’" she told WSJ back in 2018. "And literally I turned to my friend, and I was like, ‘You have this job because I’ve done yoga before.’”
Anyway: Paltrow explained that she took the selfie while traveling to France "when it was all kicking off." "I wore it on the plane, but I didn’t wear it to the function that I was going to, and actually ended up getting COVID and coming home, and being one of the first people that I had heard of to have it."
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Look: It's easy to rip on Paltrow a little for being...extra. But the bottom line is, she was practicing COVID-19 safety precautions early — even though she was using a mask with a vent, which isn't recommended by CDC guidelines. (Also, she still got it anyway, which is a reminder of just how contagious this disease is.)

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