Gwyneth Paltrow just claimed she single-handedly made yoga a thing. Yes, really.

If you count yourself as a yoga fan, then Gwyneth Paltrow would like you to know that it’s all because of her.

A brazen statement for the 46-year-old to make, considering the ancient Indian practice originated some 5000 to 10,000 years ago.

The vagina-steaming advocate, and founder of wellness hub Goop, made the controversial statements in her interview with Wall Street Journal, and unsurprisingly, people have taken offence to her comments.

Speaking about her pioneering ways, the Paltrow shared how she was at first ridiculed by her peers for partaking in the exercise.

“I remember when I started doing yoga and people were like, ‘What is yoga? She’s a witch. She’s a freak,'” she said.

 

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It was then that she decided to drop this sparkling anecdote.

“Forgive me if this comes out wrong,” she started.

“But I went to do a yoga class in LA recently and the 22-year-old girl behind the counter was like, ‘Have you ever done yoga before?’ And literally I turned to my friend, and I was like, ‘You have this job because I’ve done yoga before.'”

Credit where credit is due, Paltrow was probably instrumental in creating the mass trend of yoga pants in the Western world, but it’s not like she pioneered the ancient discipline of contorting your body into tree pose.

Not to mention the many old-school celebrities like The Beatles, Quincy Jones, Marilyn Monroe and even Audrey Hepburn, who also called themselves fans of the practice.

Want some stress-busting yoga moves so you can start living your best life? This video will show you how.

Anyway, people were understandably pretty miffed with her comments, and shared their thoughts on Twitter.

I literally had no idea that Gwyneth Paltrow did yoga until she tried telling the world she invented yoga

— Jess (@jesswernick) December 6, 2018

Gwyneth Paltrow saying she made yoga a thing is not surprising at all to me. Tone deaf, ignorant, and just plain wrong… but not surprising.

— Rena (@Rena_TwatchinU) December 6, 2018

⁦Not sure what was going on in the East Coast in 1998, but here in Santa Monica there were already yoga classes with 80-100 people in them. I know, because we were there. @GwynethPaltrow⁩ has a business because someone before her did yoga. https://t.co/hElQAdjxMc

— GardenOfYoga (@GardenOfYoga) December 6, 2018

Congrats on giving us yoga. Did @GwynethPaltrow invent the internet too. @algore might dispute that one.

— Taylor Ward (@tmwtmw) December 6, 2018

That is pretty funny, i have been doing yoga for prob 32yrs at the time yes it was all very new, I remember my mom saying it was against our religion. Haha so how old was @GwynethPaltrow then um 14. Anything’s possible as Gwyneth would tell you.

— Karma’s gonna get you ☮️ (@karma_nimashan) December 6, 2018

Gwyneth Paltrow’s self absorption and conceit knows no bounds… https://t.co/7kF67Ux315

— Ella Lee???? (@elee_bella) December 6, 2018

Time-traveling Gwyneth Paltrow to Strunk & White: “I was like, you published that book because I once used a comma”
And to Oppenheimer: “I was like, you built that bomb because I’m made of atoms”
To Fleming: “I was like, you invented penicillin because I’m actual mold” pic.twitter.com/4IDieInBWp

— Julie Horger (@FrancisIsBusy) December 6, 2018

“You have this job because I’ve done yoga before” is great dialogue for a villain in a Hallmark Christmas movie. By the time the story is over she will have learned the error of her ways, fallen in love with a small town boy from her past, and dismantled Goop. #GwynethPaltrow https://t.co/Dp5PZMAlx7

— Patricia Beauchamp (@neophytingmad) December 6, 2018

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