Gwyneth Paltrow in Bathing Suit Shares “Summer Selects” 

Gwyneth Paltrow is showing off her body at 52 in a bathing suit. In a new social media post, the actress shows off her age-defying figure in a black one-piece in a mirror selfie. “Summer Selects,” she captioned the series of Instagram snaps. “Thank god one Hollywood babe is aging naturally!” one of her followers commented. “Beyond beautiful!” added another. How does the star manage to look a fraction of her age? Here is how she stays in shape.

Gwyneth is a long time “total die-hard” fan of the Tracy Anderson Method, a dance-inspired workout. “Her method works so well for me. I’ve seen all these fads come and go, and nothing works for me the way that Tracy’s approach does, so I really stick with it,” she revealed to Shape. “She’s amazing.” “Many of you may already know of my passion for the Tracy Anderson Method and my investment in it. She has kicked my formerly sagging ass into shape and I will be forever grateful,” she added on Goop.

Gwyneth meditates, telling Vogue that during the pandemic she went from doing it “sporadically” to every single morning. “I do Transcendental Meditation, so that’s something you learn with a teacher and they give you a mantra. There’s an app called Insight Timer that I use, and then sometimes when I need a little meditation in the afternoon [I use] The Breathing App. You follow a ball expanding and contracting and breathe along with it. Even five minutes is really helpful,” she said. “Paparazzi’d while meditating…” she captioned a recent Instagram photo.

Infrared saunas are part of Paltrow’s self-care routine. “I love to take an infrared sauna; it’s really detoxifying. It’s a real gift to myself,” she told Shape. “I haven’t tried cryotherapy yet because I’m kind of scared to, but they say it’s great for pain. Our diets are so full of inflammatory foods that I think we need to do increasingly extreme things to combat it.”

Gwyneth is very public about her love of cleanses. “At Goop they call me ‘GP the guinea pig,’ because I’ll try anything,” she told Shape. “I just tried a goat milk cleanse for eight days to rid my system of parasites. That was really interesting. It’s only goat’s milk and herbs. The theory is that we all have parasites, and they love the milk protein. So if you eat nothing else, they all come out of the intestinal wall and then you kill them with the herbs. I had to try it for Goop, but I felt so good after it.”

Gwyneth’s goal is to “eat pretty clean during the day” by consuming “good proteins and lots of vegetables and not too much grain or sugar, and nothing baked,” she told Shape. As the day progresses, she relaxes her approach, eating whatever she wants for dinner, but tries to eat lean proteins like fish and chicken.

Paltrow is a fan of intermittent fasting. “This year, I’ve been working with my dear friend and functional medicine practitioner @drwillcole and experimenting with the program from his new book, Intuitive Fasting. Will’s clear, but flexible, four-week plan combines intuitive eating with intermittent fasting and Ketotarian foods. It’s designed to optimize our well-being and set us up to feel our best for all the other weeks to come,” she wrote in a recent post.