Gwyneth Paltrow had some fun with eye makeup and a wind machine for the cover of the Summer issue of V Magazine [1]. After seeing her looking so perfectly polished for all of her Iron Man red carpets [2], it's fun to see Gwyneth letting loose a little. In the article, Gwyn talks about everything from her career to her family to her eating habits. Here are highlights [3]:

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• On working on Iron Man [4]: "It was nice. It's great sometimes to go to work and think, Oh, we're just going to have fun. I wouldn't even know my lines because when we'd get there, Robert [Downey Jr.] would change everything. There was a point when I would have been scared to work like that, but now I'm up for anything. As long as it doesn't involve working five days a week!"
• On looking back on her 20s: "I wouldn't change anything. Even when I look back and think, Why did I do that or why did I date that person? Because ultimately all roads led me to where I am now. And it was incredibly fun-travelling the world, going to premieres, dressing up. It was just my life. I did it all the time. At certain points in more recent years, when I've been 30 pounds heavier and had milk dripping out of my boobs, it seemed like a fairy tale."

To see what else Gwyneth had to say about her diet and being friends with Madonna, just .

• On her macrobiotic diet: "I was macrobiotic for about three or four years, but when I got pregnant with Apple I wanted french fries, grilled cheese, and yoghurt, so it kind of went out the window. I couldn't look at brown rice. It made me throw up. But being macrobiotic is basically about eating local, organic, seasonal food that isn't processed, and that's how I eat now, so it's not that different. I haven't eaten meat for about fifteen years. I eat fish, a little bit of dairy — not much milk — but I love cheese. We'll make chocolate chip cookies and eat them, but sugar makes me feel pretty bad. I have coffee and wine. I've got lots of lovely vices."
• On being friends with Madonna: "I met Madonna when I was 22 or 23. I have other friends I've had longer and I have other friends that I see more, but through thick and thin she's a constant in my life. It's like we have some kind of karmic thing. She's a great woman. She's taught me a lot."

Gwyneth also revealed that she'll be taking time off from movies again after Two Lovers [5] to work on her cookbook, but after the huge success of Iron Man [6] we're hoping it won't be long before she signs on for another blockbuster.

Images courtesy of Mario Sorrenti for V Magazine's [7] Summer issue out this week.