When Gwyneth Paltrow launched her lifestyle website, goop, in 2008, many people were a little mystified – not least by the name (a play on her initials, FYI). Why would an established actress decide to put her successful career on the back burner in order to focus on a website?

Paltrow came in for particular flak once the public saw the content being published on goop. The site has never, it’s fair to say, occupied a realm that any of us would recognise as reality. Paltrow dished out recipes for bread-free sandwiches, said she’d rather smoke crack than eat cheese out of a tin, and compiled gift guides worth hundreds of thousands of dollars (anyone for a $244 “toothpaste squeezer”? How about a pair of headphones costing $55,000?). Then, of course, there was the vaginal steaming.

But in a new op-ed, Paltrow says she has no regrets about walking away from her less-contentious former career. The one thing she says she might do differently? The whole “conscious uncoupling” chapter.

In the post for LinkedIn, Paltrow says that her decision to launch goop was, in retrospect, “perhaps not that well thought out” – but that she is now “as professionally fulfilled and happy as I have ever been in my life”.

Gwyneth Paltrow on why she quit acting to become an entrepreneur