843 days later, Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin are officially uncoupled. According to People magazine, the Hollywood stars have finalized their divorce morethan two years after announcing their split.
The former couple, who share daughter Apple, 12, and son Moses, ten, reached a divorce settlement back in May. According tolegal documents at the time,both parties agreed to forgo spousal support and entered into awritten agreement regarding their property and child support.
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The actress revealed in April that she and Chris had separated a year before publiclyannouncing their separation in 2014. "We had broken up a year before weannounced it, so we would have this time to work through everything," shesaid. "It's also almost about having to press the 'override' buttonwhenever you feel angry or jealous or whatever, broken-hearted. You have topress the button: I'm going back to the baseline of 'I love this person, he'sthe father of my children, he's a wonderful man."
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Gwyneth, 43, and the Coldplay frontman, 39, first announcedtheir decision to end their ten-year marriage in 2014 in a blog post for the actress’ lifestyle site Goop. "Wehave come to the conclusion that while we love each other very much we willremain separate," they said in the post titled "Conscious Uncoupling.” "We are, however, and always will be a family, and in many ways we arecloser than we have ever been."
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Sincesplitting, the pair have remained amicable, celebrating their children's birthdays and even engaging infriendly family sleepovers. The Oscar winner opened upabout the importance of keeping her family together during a recent interview withBBC News program HARDtalk. She said,"You can remain a family even though you are not a couple and make it aless traumatic experience for the children."
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“As anybody who has been divorcedknows, you have to put a lot aside to maintain the family and thepracticalities of what that might mean and sometimes that’s quite tough on apersonal level,” the mom-of-two continued. “It’s a commitment I make every dayto my children and their father even though we’re not in a romanticrelationship.”
