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Gwyneth Paltrow Defends Her Controversial Vagina Candle: ‘Go F*** Yourself’

Gwyneth Paltrow addressed backlash over her ‘This Smells Like My Vagina’ candle at the 2025 Mindvalley Manifesting Summit in Los Angeles

Quizzed over the product, which was unveiled via her lifestyle website in 2020, during an appearance at the 2025 Mindvalley Manifesting Summit in Los Angeles on Saturday, May 17, Paltrow addressed the negative attention it attracted. What started as a weekly newsletter from the Clean Plate author, grew to an expansive website that spawned a fashion line, wellness products, recipe portal, podcast, magazine and health summit, among other projects. The product, which sparked its own 2022 spinoff candle titled “Hands Off My Vagina,” nodding to reproductive freedom, was originally launched in a quest to empower the website’s female fanbase.

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