Celebrities are often the people that everyone loves to hate, and no one would seem to know that better than Gwyneth Paltrow.

The actress and wife of Coldplay frontman Chris Martin beat out notoriously disliked celebrities such as John Mayer and Chris Brown to stop Star Magazine's list of the 20 Most Hated Celebrities in Hollywood. Kristen Stewart came in at No. 2 on the list, while Jennifer Lopez came in at No. 3.

Although Paltrow's movies continue to perform well at the box office, numerous comments she has made to the press in recent years have left her branded as pretentious. She has referred to British people as "more intelligent and civilized than the Americans," said she finds it "incredibly embarrassing when people are drunk" and declared that she would "rather die than let my kid eat Cup-a-Soup."

Last September, she told InStyle Magazine that she found TV in English to be harmful to her two children. "I only let them watch TV in French or Spanish," she said. "When I'm in France, I go to [Boulevard] Beaumarchais and buy all their cartoons." In the same interview, she said that her idea of indulging herself is "a fresh baguette with cheese and a glass of red wine...or a turkey burger."

In her latest cookbook due out next month, It's All Good, Paltrow revealed that she decided her entire family was intolerant of gluten, dairy and chicken eggs. She also admitted to starving her children of carbs by not feeding them bread, pasta or rice.

"Sometimes when my family is not eating pasta, bread or processed grains like white rice, we're left that specific hunger that comes with avoiding carbs," she wrote in the book.  "Every single nutritionist, doctor and health-conscious person I have ever come across... seems to concur that (gluten) is tough on the system and many of us are at best intolerant of it and at worst allergic to it."

Critics slammed Paltrow's cookbook in early reviews, with The Atlantic Wire writing that she "takes laughable Hollywood neuroticism about eating to the next level."

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