Gwyneth Paltrow feels ‘incredible sadness’ about becoming an empty nester: ‘Deep sense of impending grief’

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“Your kids are supposed to be, you know, young adults who can achieve and cope and make connections and be resilient. That’s exactly what you want. And that means they leave the house.”

The Oscar winner, who shares Apple, 19, and Moses, 17, with her ex-husband, Chris Martin, gushed that motherhood has both “defined” and “fulfilled” her.

“It’s like the guiding force. It’s what I return to,” she told the London newspaper. “I observe a lot of my friends who’ve had kids who’ve gone off to college. Your kid … it changes. And, you know, they come home a lot and all that stuff, but it’s not quite the same as living under the same roof all the days of the year. So I’m just trying to be open to what that means.”

Paltrow and Martin, 47, were married from 2003 to 2016. She wed Falchuk, 53, in 2018.