“I’m over-functioned and burnt out, but I’m trying to get a little bit better this year at that and really prioritising sleep and boundaries around working and not working, but I have some work to do.”
In November 2025, the Marvel star opened up on feeling like she’s “pulled in lots of directions” and how even just a bad work email can be “a slap in the face”.
Speaking on the Goop podcast, she said: “I’ve lived a very intense life in the public eye for a really, really long time.
“And so I think whenever we’re at the mercy of people’s opinions and all the energy behind the opinions – I’m very sensitive, as most of us are – so I feel that and it kind of frays my nervous system.”
Paltrow also pointed to the way her changing hormones are having an impact.
She explained: “I think also my hormonal phase of life, I have a lot of anxiety for the very first time in my life, which is just a symptom of hormonal changes.
“I think it’s an estrogen dominance thing. It makes you really anxious … “So part of it is physiological, part of it is psychological, part of it’s emotional and part of it’s public life.”