Gwyneth Paltrow's son Moses is 18! And he looks just like his rocker dad Chris Martin.
"Happy 18th birthday to you, my son," Paltrow wrote on an Instagram photo of the teenager. "I am so proud of who you are. I love your sensitivity and brilliance and quiet humor. I admire how deep you go into areas that interest you, becoming an expert in synths from the '80s and the French new wave. I love how much you love the people you love, but also how internal you are."
Paltrow added, "There is such a magnificent world of ideas and harmonies inside that beautiful head of yours. I am unbelievably proud of the person you are today, as you cross over the threshold into adulthood. I love you more than words can say, @mosesmartin you absolutely kill me. ❤️ Mama."
Paltrow and Coldplay singer Chris Martin, whose divorce was finalized in 2016, share son Moses and daughter Apple, 19.
In 2018, Paltrow married writer and producer Brad Falchuk and became a stepmother to his kids, Isabella and Brody Falchuk. Martin is dating actor Dakota Johnson.
Here is everything to know about Paltrow’s children.
Apple Martin
In 2004, Paltrow welcomed her daughter, Apple, with Martin.
In an interview with Oprah Winfrey at the time, Paltrow revealed why she named her daughter Apple.
"When we were first pregnant, her daddy said, ‘If it’s a girl I think her name should be Apple.' It sounded so sweet, and it conjured such a lovely picture for me, you know," Paltrow said. "Apples are so sweet and they’re wholesome, and it’s biblical. And I just thought it sounded so lovely."
Paltrow noted that Martin was "so in love" with Apple after she arrived. They immediately noticed that their daughter was a "very tranquil" and "aware" baby.
"The first morning we woke up together in the hospital bed, and we were facing each other, and I opened my eyes, and she's got these huge blue eyes," Paltrow told Winfrey. "She was just staring at me with this unbelievable intensity. That's kind of what she's like. She's very curious."
Although Apple is known to be her mom's mini-me, she also takes after her father.
Martin once invited his daughter on stage with him to sing an acoustic version of Ariana Grande's "Just A Little Bit Of Your Heart," and Apple crushed it. At the end of the song, she was met with a standing ovation and a kiss from her dad.
In June 2022, Paltrow shared a sweet selfie from Apple's high school graduation before seeing her mini-me go off to college in the fall.
“It was horrible. It was truly horrifying,” Paltrow told People about her daughter leaving for school. “I was sick to my stomach, bursting into tears.”
“She came home for October break just last weekend, so that was amazing,” she added. “I see her, but not as much as I’d like. I’d like to see her every day, but I’m so happy for her. She’s doing great.”
In May, Paltrow celebrated her daughter’s 19th birthday.
"I love you so deeply and wholly, it defies articulation. To behold you as a 19 year old woman fills my heart with almost unbearable love, pride and meaning! I can’t take it!" she wrote in the caption.
Moses Martin
In 2006, Paltrow welcomed her son, Moses, with Martin. Like Apple, he also takes after his dad.
When Moses crashed his mom's 2020 interview on "The Tonight Show," he told host Jimmy Fallon that he's "really into music."
"I like to do it a lot,” Moses said. “Right now, I’d say I’m playing guitar the most. It used to be piano for a while, and then I started doing guitar lessons again.”
When Paltrow celebrated her son's 14th birthday on Instagram, she shared a few photos of him over the years. One of the snaps showed Moses jamming out behind the mic as his dad played on the keys.
In April, Paltrow gave her son a sweet birthday shoutout when he turned 17 years old.
Isabella Falchuk
After 13 years of marriage, Paltrow and Martin announced in 2014 that they decided to “consciously uncouple“ and get a divorce. The actor later found love again with producer Brad Falchuk, known for his collaborations with Ryan Murphy, including “American Horror Story” and “Pose.”
Before the two wed, Apple and Martin met Falchuk’s children on the 2016 ski trip at the center of a lawsuit in which the actor was accused of crashing into a man on a slope and causing serious injury.
The two tied the knot in 2018 and Paltrow became a stepmother to Falchuk’s two children, whom he shares with his ex-wife Suzanne Bukinik, creating a blended family. In October 2020, Falchuk shared a photo of him going to vote and the same polling location his daughter was volunteering at. The “Pose” creator said it was “pretty cool” to see his little girl there.
Over the years, Paltrow and Isabella have grown close. In September 2022, the "Iron Man" star celebrated her stepdaughter's 18th birthday.
According to People, Paltrow shared a photo of her and Isabella together on on her Instagram story for her stepdaughter's birthday. Over the snap, she wrote, "Happy birthday @izzyfalchuk. We miss you today and love you.”
In August, Paltrow responded to fan questions on Instagram, including one that read: “Do you find it hard sometimes to be a bonus (step) mom?”
Paltrow shared that she did find it “really hard” at first.
“All the existing media around what a stepmother is casts us in this evil, villainous light. It’s kind of like trying to avoid land mines,” Paltrow said in the video. “And then you’re going into a family with dynamics, and there’s all kinds of fear around loss, and what does this new person mean.”
But she said deciding to treat her children and stepchildren the same helped her reach the relationship they share today, which she described as “pretty great.”
Brody Falchuk
Falchuk shares Isabella and Brody with his ex-wife, Suzanne Bukinik. Paltrow has said that both of her children are similar in age to her stepchildren.
In March 2018, Falchuk shared a sweet snap with his son as they climbed a tree together.
"More people have been on the summit of Mt. Everest than have climbed to the top of a giant redwood. This is us about a third of the way up “Grandfather”. Brody was the youngest to ever do it," the proud dad captioned the post, adding the hashtag, #fathersandsons.
After Falchuk and Paltrow got married in 2018, Paltrow said she was concerned at first about how she was going to be a stepmom.
"It’s funny because when I became a stepmother, when I knew I was going to become a stepmother, I was like, ‘S—, I have no idea how to do this. There’s nothing to read. What do I do? Where do I step in? Where do I not? Like, how do I do this?’" she told Gabrielle Union, who is Zaya Wade's stepmother, on the "Goop" podcast in March 2021, per People.
But Paltrow said that she started to see things differently when she told herself: "F--- it, these are my kids. I’m not going to be scared to discipline them or draw the boundary."
“That’s really what shifted everything," she told Falchuk in a September podcast episode.
Falchuk also recalled a time when Paltrow got a little stern with Brody. He said the "Shallow Hal" star "yelled" at Brody when they were having dinner, leaving the teen "shocked." But Brody soon teen became "relaxed" because he was being treated like “every other kid here," Falchuk said.
“If someone asked me for advice on it, I would just say, ‘From day one, really treat them as your kid,'" Paltrow noted.
