Gwyneth Paltrow gives her followers a rare glimpse into the life of her son Moses, just as she prepares to have her son’s first child.
On Friday, August 23, the 51-year-old actress shared a video to her Instagram Stories in which she responded to a follower’s question about whether she had mentally prepared herself to drop off 18-year-old Moses at college for the first time.
“Have you sent both kids to college yet?” commenter asked Paltrow. “I’m doing that, I’m not well.”
“Not yet,” she replied in the candid video, filming herself apparently walking through her garden. Then Moses appears in the frame, wearing a white T-shirt and a beach towel around his neck.
“She hasn’t quite gotten rid of me yet,” he joked, before Paltrow jokingly made a stunned face at the camera.
At the beginning of March this year, the Goop founder spoke about The Sunday Times about her younger child leaving for college – as her daughter Apple, 20, went to college for the first time two years ago.
“On the one hand, incredible sadness,” she told the outlet at the time, reflecting on how she felt when Moses moved out of the house. “A deep sense of impending grief.”
“On the other hand, that’s exactly what should happen,” she said. “You want your kids to be young adults who are achieving, coping, making connections and being resilient. That’s exactly what you want. And that means getting them out of the house.”
Moses – who Paltrow shares with her ex-husband and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, in addition to Apple – will attend Ivy League university Brown University in the fall.
Paltrow is also stepmother to her husband Brad Falchuk’s two children – one of whom is also moving out of home to go to college in the fall, leaving the house even emptier.
“In the fall, Brad (Falchuk) and I will have boys who will be going to college,” Paltrow told Just about Moses and her husband’s son Brody. “It will be interesting to see how the morning routine changes when there are no children in the house.”
In addition, in an interview with Hectic in October, the Iron-Man The actress spoke about the college admissions process and revealed that her son has a more “relaxed” approach than her daughter.
“Apple knew exactly where they wanted to go and did everything in their power to make that happen and manifest it,” the mother of two told the outlet.
“Moses is like, ‘I don’t know, I like this and I like that, and let’s go back and look at this, let’s go back and look at that.’ He’s more relaxed about it. He’s like, ‘I’ll be happy anywhere; it’s OK,’ which is a great feeling,” she added.
“And generally it seems to work,” Paltrow concluded. “I’ve noticed that sometimes you think, ‘Oh no, that person didn’t make it there, even though it was such a good fit.'”