Gwyneth Paltrow is officially an Empty Nester.

The Goop founder spoke candidly about what the days have been like for her since her second child, son Moses Martin, 18, went off to college. (Daughter Apple Martin, 20, started college in 2022 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and Moses just entered Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, this fall.)

“I am very different. I have waves of sadness and sadness,” Paltrow told her followers in an Instagram Stories Q&A this week (via Daily Mail).

“It's like getting back in touch with a part of myself that I haven't felt since my twenties, before I had kids. Like there's a little more space and imagination. I have a little more room in my heart for what I want to do that day.

“So it's evolving. It's interesting.

The Avengers actress had already mentioned in a March 2024 interview with The Sunday Times how she felt about her new childless family before Moses graduated from high school. The situation was further complicated by the fact that her husband Brad Falchuk's son Brody also entered Yale University this fall.

“I have been so defined and so fulfilled by being a mother. It was a central ...... It was kind of central ...... I don't know how to articulate that!” she said at the time.

“It's like a guiding force. That's my starting point. I observe many friends who have children who have gone to college. Kids are ...... They change. But it's not the same as living under the same roof all year round. So I'm trying to be open to what that means.”

Paltrow shares an Apple with Chris Martin and Moses, who were married from 2003 to 2016. She has also been a loving mother-in-law to Brody and his sister Isabella since she tied the knot with Falchuk in 2018.