Gwyneth Paltrow likes to keep in touch

If you thought being on Gwyneth Paltrow’s GOOP mailing list was bad, wait until she starts writing you personal letters like she does to the married Ben Affleck. Paltrow’s been sending him notes and gifts for births and other major celebrations. Jennifer Garner hates it, but doesn’t say anything because she’s Ben’s friend. Jennifer Garner is very tolerant.

“Ben and Jen got one of Gwyneth’s famous notes this year just after Seraphina was born,” says the insider. “It was very nice, but it was a little too personal. Gwyneth made sure to mention how she was happy that Ben was finally creating the family he had always wanted, a family, which the two of them discussed in depth when they were dating. It just rubs Jen the wrong way.”

Gwyneth Paltrow is so grating even in her writing. Maybe it’s the fact that she doesn’t convey tone very well or maybe it’s the fact that she conveys tone very well. Reading anything she writes feels uncomfortable. Kind of like watching a parent beat their child in front of you and being told to mind your own business when you tell them, “I don’t think kids are supposed to go limp like that.”

Pictures of Jennifer Garner on the set of Valentine’s Day because I’d much rather look at her than Ben Affleck or Gwyneth Paltrow.