Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin split, announce they’re ‘consciously uncoupling’

GWYNETH Paltrow and Chris Martin’s marriage is over with the power couple describing their separation as a “conscious uncoupling”.

GWYNETH Paltrow and Chris Martin have announced their separation.

In a statement released on Paltrow’s Goop website, the actor announced she and her Coldplay husband are parting way after 10 years of marriage.

“It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate,” the statement says.

“We have been working hard for well over a year, some of it together, some of it separated, to see what might have been possible between us, and we have come to the conclusion that while we love each other very much we will remain separate.

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Gwyneth Paltrow with her children Apple and Moses in NYC.

“We are, however, and always will be a family, and in many ways we are closer than we have ever been. We are parents first and foremost, to two incredibly wonderful children and we ask for their and our space and privacy to be respected at this difficult time. We have always conducted our relationship privately, and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and co-parent, we will be able to continue in the same manner.”

The Iron Man 3 star’s lifestyle website now appears to have crashed following the news that the pair are separating.

Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin take Apple and Moses for a walk.

Paltrow, 41, and Martin, 37, met in 2002 and grew quite close as the Coldplay singer helped the actor deal with the death of her father, Bruce Paltrow, who passed away in October 2002.

Martin wrote the song Fix You about Paltrow’s loss, and he stated in an interview in 2012 that he cries every time he hears the song.

The couple were married in December 2003 and Paltrow gave birth to the couple’s first child, daughter Apple Blythe Alison Martin, in May 2004 in London.

In 2006 they welcomed their second child, son Moses Bruce Anthony Martin.

In 2012, when promoting the film Thanks for Sharing (about sex addiction), Paltrow was asked if she’d forgive her husband if he ever cheated on her.

“I think that if the idea of being committed to someone is important to you, you begin to value certain parts of your social life over another,” Paltrow said.

Chris Martin takes son Moses out for ice cream.

“No couple is the same, and as such, every couple takes on different challenges. I would like to think that I would be forgiving and/or forgiven, but I can’t give an honest answer as I haven’t really experienced that.”

Just last month a message about Paltrow appeared on Whisper — an anonymous secret-sharing app — claiming that the actress has been having an affair with well-known entertainment lawyer Kevin Yorn.

Her rep slammed the rumour, saying it’s “100 per cent false”.