WHEN Gwyneth Paltrow described her break-up from husband Chris Martin as “conscious uncoupling”, she was ridiculed.
But it hasn’t put Harry Potter actress Emma Watson off coining her own phrase.
Emma described herself in an interview as “self-partnered” – that is single to you and me.
Social media blasted her, comparing her pompous wording to Gwyneth’s 2014 separation announcement.
But the similarities between the two do not end with their vocab.
Here Kate Jackson takes a closer look at how Emma is in danger of transforming into fellow Luvvie Gwyn.
Both know the pain of being rich and famous
THEY are global icons with millions in the bank but life isn’t easy, apparently.
Emma, who shot to stardom aged ten as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies, said: “Fame is not something I have always felt comfortable with, I have really grappled with it emotionally.”
She escaped the limelight at 19 to study English Literature at a US university and says she prefers to date people who are not famous.
Iron Man star Gwyneth once admitted fame made her an “a**hole”.
I never believed the whole ‘I’m happy single’ spiel. I was like, ‘This is totally spiel’. It took me a long time, but I’m very happy [being single]. I call it being self-partnered.
Emma Watson
She added: “I see so many famous people who are exempt from life, who’ve set up this construct where they don’t really have to risk anything.
"Usually, because of their fear of intimacy – and I don’t want to be like that. I want to be in the rough and tumble of life.”
We are sure there is plenty of rough and tumble in her, er, Malibu mansion.
We have always conducted our relationship privately, and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and co-parent, we will be able to continue in the same manner.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Bare all for art
IN a bid to show the world the “real” them, Gwyn and Emma have both stripped off.
Gwyneth boldly went nude for her role in 1998’s Great Expectations and, two decades on, she is still flaunting her macrobiotic diet-honed bod.
Just last month, she posed topless – bar a pair of carefully placed braces – for Elle magazine’s Women In Hollywood issue.
And she covered her naked torso in mud for the first issue of Goop magazine in 2017.
Following in her footsteps, Emma came under fire from feminists when she went braless with just a crochet cape to cover her modesty for Vanity Fair.
They overshare
NO subject is off limits with these two. Emma shed her clean-cut image when she revealed she subscribes to feminist (of course) website, OMGYes, which explores “female pleasure”.
She said: “I wish it had been around longer.”
Emma also enthused about Fur Oil, admitting she uses it “anywhere from the ends of my hair to my eyebrows to my pubic hair”.
Meanwhile, Gwyneth, who founded the multi-million pound Goop blog, once urged women to tighten their pelvic floor muscles by “peeing in the shower squatting down”.
Her wellness website sells a vibrator necklace costing £123, and Gwyneth even publicly offered to send one to her mum, Blythe Danner.
Pair luvvie a good cry
GWYNETH’S tear-soaked Best Actress speech for 1999’s Shakespeare In Love is still regarded as one of the most cringe-worthy moments in Oscar history.
While Emma is yet to receive an Academy Awards nod, she’s more than ready to give an emotional speech when the opportunity arises.
In 2017, she won MTV’s first genderless acting gong for playing Belle in Beauty And The Beast, and said: “The first acting award that doesn’t separate nominees based on their sex says something about how we perceive the human experience.”
And on her MTV Trailblazer award, in 2013, she gushed: “If you put your heart into something, amazing things can and will happen.”
If there was an Oscar for Best Luvvie, Emma would be a shoo-in.
Doing it for the girls
NOT content with being actors, Emma and Gwynnie have rebranded as campaigners.
Both are keen feminists and driving forces behind last year’s #TimesUp movement, to combat sexual harassment.
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Emma is also a keen environmentalist, despite recently being named a “super-emitter” for her jet-setting carbon footprint.
A Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations, Emma launched their HeForShe gender equality campaign in 2014.
When asked if stripping off for Vanity Fair was feminist, she hit back: “I don’t see what my t**s have to do with it.”
Gwyneth, who is a global charity brand ambassador for a watch firm, said: “We are a generation of women . . . who want to be ambitious, and for it not to be a dirty word.”
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