Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin
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First comes the breakup, then comes the ... breakup moon?
The day before announcing their separation, Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin flew to the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas, PEOPLE has confirmed.
Wearing sunglasses and keeping a low profile, the pair gave no indication anything was amiss between them.
"I just thought they were on vacation," says an observer at the North Eleuthera airport. "They didn't seem happy or unhappy."
A source close to Paltrow says the stars, who are parents to daughter Apple, 9 ½, and son Moses, 7 ½, retreated to the pencil-thin island (roughly two miles wide) – whose name is the Greek word for "freedom" – to avoid the maelstrom of attention following the announcement that they are consciously uncoupling.
"They're in a somewhat isolated place, so they don't have to deal with it as much," says the source.
Paltrow and Martin aren't the first celebrity couple to share a breakup moon: In 2005, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston famously vacationed together on the Caribbean island of Anguilla just one week before publicly revealing their split. Josh Lucas and Jessica Ciencin Henriquez headed to Colombia to visit her family shortly after announcing they'd divorced amicably.
• Reporting by STEVE HELLING
The day before announcing their separation, Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin flew to the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas, PEOPLE has confirmed.
Wearing sunglasses and keeping a low profile, the pair gave no indication anything was amiss between them.
"I just thought they were on vacation," says an observer at the North Eleuthera airport. "They didn't seem happy or unhappy."
A source close to Paltrow says the stars, who are parents to daughter Apple, 9 ½, and son Moses, 7 ½, retreated to the pencil-thin island (roughly two miles wide) – whose name is the Greek word for "freedom" – to avoid the maelstrom of attention following the announcement that they are consciously uncoupling.
"They're in a somewhat isolated place, so they don't have to deal with it as much," says the source.
Paltrow and Martin aren't the first celebrity couple to share a breakup moon: In 2005, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston famously vacationed together on the Caribbean island of Anguilla just one week before publicly revealing their split. Josh Lucas and Jessica Ciencin Henriquez headed to Colombia to visit her family shortly after announcing they'd divorced amicably.
• Reporting by STEVE HELLING
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It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate. We have been working hard for well over a year, some of it together, some of it separated, to see what might have been possible between us, and we have come to the conclusion that while we love each other very much we will remain separate. We are, however, and always will be a family, and in many ways we are closer than we have ever been. We are parents first and foremost, to two incredibly wonderful children and we ask for their and our space and privacy to be respected at this difficult time. We have always conducted our relationship privately, and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and coparent, we will be able to continue in the same manner.
Love,
Gwyneth & Chris
Marital strife is nothing to joke about, but damn, Gwynnie. Even when you're (probably) suffering you manage to make your problems sound hopelessly unattainable. Separation, divorce, strife: these are peasant issues. When you're living la vida goopy, you don't split, you uncouple. Consciously. Please.
Thankfully I've never divorced, but from what I've heard, even amicable splits can feel like a full-throttle descent into chaos, arousing feelings of loss, betrayal, and hurt. No doubt Gwyneth and Chris have experienced these emotions, but it's unlikely we'll ever see them under the faade of organic, Sherpa-delivered ice Gwyneth has delicately sculpted around her personal narrative.
The only genuine sign of anger came last year, when Team Goop took umbrage to a planned Vanity Fair expos. The piece never materialized, but was rumoured to be all about her troubled marriage and a potential affair. Now it's clear that at least the first part of that story was true.
Whatever. Gwyneth wants us to think it's all fine and good, and I'm just going to go with that, because I cannot afford the number of Dr.Junger smoothies it would take to appropriately cleanse any real emotions over this
