Gwyneth Paltrow shared a new photo from her son Moses’ high school graduation after admitting to having a ‘nervous breakdown’ over becoming a empty nester.
Less than a month after watching her youngest child, 18, receive his diploma, alongside her ex-husband, Chris Martin, the proud mom, 51, shared a never-before-seen picture with her teenager, who will be attending Brown University in the fall.
While doing a Q&A session on her Instagram Story on Friday, the Oscar winner opted to share a sweet snap of herself giving Moses a kiss on the cheek when asked to post the ‘last picture’ of her and her children from her camera roll.
Although not featured in her latest post from the ceremony, Martin, 47, and the former couple’s daughter, Apple, 20, also attended Moses’ graduation.
She and the Coldplay frontman got married in 2003 and separated in 2014, in what the Shakespeare in Love actress famously described as a ‘conscious uncoupling.’
Gwyneth Paltrow shared a new photo from her son Moses’ high school graduation after admitting to having a ‘nervous breakdown’ over becoming a empty nester
They have since both found love elsewhere – Gwyneth in her marriage to Glee co-creator Brad Falchuk, and Chris with Fifty Shades Of Grey star Dakota Johnson.
However, throughout their years apart, Chris and Gwyneth have remained friendly co-parents to their two children.
In April, Gwyneth admitted to her mounting anxiety over the prospect of becoming an empty nester.
Moses, her youngest child, is headed off to Brown University in Rhode Island – across the country from what Gwyneth has called her ‘forever house’ in Montecito.
‘It’s kind of giving me a nervous breakdown, if I’m honest,’ she confessed at an event for her wellness brand Goop, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
‘I started being like: “Oh my God, and I need to quit my job and I need to sell my house and I need to move.” It’s sort of putting things into turmoil,’ she said.
‘My identity has been being a mother. Apple’s going to be 20 in May. So I’ve oriented my whole life around them and their schedules and when school starts.’
She explained: ‘You start to let go in increments when they’re driving themselves around or doing certain things. It is a slower process.’
Less than a month after watching her youngest child, 18, receive his diploma , alongside her ex-husband, Chris Martin , the proud mom, 51, shared a never-before-seen picture with her teenager, who will be attending Brown University in the fall
Last month, Gwyneth gushed over her son when she wished him a happy 18th birthday, hailing his ‘sensitivity and brilliance and quiet humor’
Gwyneth added: ‘I feel really lucky because I have a close group of mom friends and we all raised our kids alongside one another. So we’re kind of in it together.’
When she and Chris first split in 2014, she inspired widespread mockery by referring to their separation as a ‘conscious uncoupling.’
However in the intervening years, the exes have drawn plaudits for how harmoniously they have brought up their children in spite of their divorce.
Gwyneth recently shared how important it was to her and Chris to have an amicable co-parenting relationship for Apple and Moses’ sake.
She explained that she and Chris ‘both really did not want to have them experience the divorce as a trauma,’ in a cover interview with Bustle.
Moses, her youngest child, is headed off to Brown University in Rhode Island – across the country from what Gwyneth has called her ‘forever house’ in Montecito
‘It’s kind of giving me a nervous breakdown, if I’m honest,’ she confessed at an event for her wellness brand Goop, according to The Hollywood Reporter
Gwyneth added: ‘I feel really lucky because I have a close group of mom friends and we all raised our kids alongside one another’
‘We knew that it would be hard, of course, but we didn’t want them to ever feel in the middle, or that one of us was slagging off the other one.’
The wellness mogul disclosed: ‘At that time, I did a very me thing, which was when I knew I wanted to get a divorce, I did this data collection of talking to adults who had been products of a broken home.’
She revealed: ‘Every single one of them said: “I didn’t care that my parents got divorced. That wasn’t it. But the fact that they wouldn’t speak to each other, that they couldn’t both sit at a dinner table for my birthday…”
‘They said that was the most awful thing. You could see they held it with so much hurt and anger. I was like: “That’s what I’m never going to do.” And we really didn’t.’
