Gwyneth Paltrow says her father's cancer battle inspired her to start Goop. Photo / Getty Images
Gwyneth Paltrow was inspired to start Goop after helping her late father through his "brutal" cancer battle.
The 47-year-old actress' father Bruce Paltrow died in 2002 after a long battle with throat cancer, and the star has now said his health struggle pushed her to "research food and nutrition", which
eventually led to her setting up her lifestyle website.
She said: "His treatment was so brutal, I was thinking, almost out of desperation, that we had to be able to do something else to help him. That's when I started to research food and nutrition."
Paltrow began Goop in 2008 in the form of a newsletter, and it has now expanded into a multi-platform resource which the Iron Man actress says has renewed her desire to live life to the fullest.
She told Town & Country magazine: "I really believe that being alive is just a process of - if you're not wasting your f***ing life - figuring out how you can impact the world positively. You can choose to engage in your life and participate in it, or you can back out and criticise everybody else in your arena.
