Rosamund Pike: 'We're all being conned by wellness industry'
Hollywood actress Rosamund Pike has declared the wellness industry has 'politicised our food, politicised our exercise ' and is actually 'really dangerous'
Rosamund Pike has branded the wellness industry "dangerous" and declared: "We are all being conned".
The 44-year-old 'Gone Girl' star opened up about her thoughts on the subject in a recent interview with the Guardian in which she was asked about mentions of Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle brand Good in her new radio drama 'People Who Knew Me' and Rosamund insisted people need to be careful about "seductive" claims of healing.
She told the publication: "I think we’re all being conned by the wellness industry. This idea that it’s no longer enough to be healthy and we have to be 'well' is something that needs to be interrogated. Yet it’s so seductive because it’s in pursuit of things that people are ashamed to want, like youth, beauty and fitness."
She went on to add: "#MeToo gave women an opportunity to escape some of the demands put on them. Now, in a way, people are voluntarily flocking back to being controlled but in a different guise, by these wellness claims. It’s politicised our food, politicised our exercise and I think it’s really dangerous."
Paltrow has long been accused of peddling "pseudoscience claims" through her Goop brand - which sells products from supplements and face creams to sex toys - but the actress has always vehemently defended her company insisting it promotes ideas that sometimes challenge Western medicines but she strives to "empower women".
Speaking to the BBC in 2018, she explained: "We really believe that there are healing modalities that have existed thousands of years, and they challenge maybe a very conventional western doctor that might not believe necessarily in the healing powers of essential oils or any variety of acupuncture. Things that have been tried and tested for hundreds of years.
"We find that they are very healthy to people and there’s an incredible power in the human body to heal itself. So I think any time you are trying to move the needles and you’re trying to empower women, you find resistance and we just think that’s part of what we do and we’re proud to do it."
