Gwyneth Paltrow has revealed she has relaxed her once super-strict paleo diet and is eating bread and pasta again.

For a number of years Paltrow, 52, adhered to a high-protein, low-carb regime – which supporters say has a range of health benefits including improved cholesterol and lower blood pressure.

Now the lifestyle guru, whose movies include Shakespeare in Love, The Talented Mr Ripley, The Royal Tenenbaums and Shallow Hal, has said she and her husband, television producer Brad Falchuk, 54, have broadened their culinary horizons.

Speaking this week on her Goop podcast, she said: “I went into hardcore macrobiotic for a certain time, that was an interesting chapter where I got obsessed with eating very, very healthily.”