Life, Love Pace Paltrow

Actor Gwyneth Paltrow Lives Life At Her Own Speed

(CBS)  For the past decade, Gwyneth Paltrow has been a red carpet regular, a glamorous first lady of film and fashion, which is why you might be surprised to hear that Paltrow thinks she may be too old to attend fashion shows.

Pay no attention to that. She's only 33, but a lot has changed for the actress over the past few years, namely a baby, CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Russ Mitchell reports.

"You know, I'm always, like, wiping boysenberries and hummus off. You know, she's very -- she's a messy eater. So I'm reticent to, you know, get too back into fashion," Paltrow explains.

After giving birth last year to a daughter named Apple -- more on that later -- the glamour girl began paring down more than her wardrobe.

"Ever since I had my daughter, my criteria's changed a lot," Paltrow says. "So much so that I haven't actually worked much since having her. I mean, she's changed everything about who I am and my life. You know, now my time away from home is time away from her. And it's very, very precious time to give away."

This, after years of landing leading roles apparently as effortlessly as she portrayed them. Before her Oscar-winning turn as a beguiling muse in "Shakespeare In Love," she was the meddlesome matchmaker in "Emma," the cruel, elusive beauty in "Great Expectations," fate's temptress in "Sliding Doors," the marked wife in "A Perfect Murder." And those films all came in the same year.

Asked if she envisioned herself returning to that hectic schedule, Paltrow said, "I'll never go back to that. I will never ever go back to that, like, four movies a year. No, never, no."

Perhaps nobody knows better than her mother. Paltrow's mom just happens to be Blythe Danner the Tony -- and as of last month, Emmy award-winning actress.

"I think Gwyneth is such an artist. You know I think that she will long for fulfilling some of that," Danner says.

First a fan, it wasn't long before Paltrow wanted to join her mom on stage.

"I think I always wanted to do it. My father -- I asked my father that question once and he said, 'I can, I, I can never remember a time when you did not want to be an actress. You always said you wanted to do it, even when you were really, really tiny.'"

As she grew up, she never lost that urge.

"At a certain point we were sort of deciding as a family whether I should go back to university or not," Paltrow says. "And I really didn't want to go. I wanted to try to act. And my parents, you know, were saying, 'Well, we think maybe you should stay in school.'"

But a performance of "Picnic" alongside her mother at the Williamstown Theater Festival put an end to that debate.

"You know, she stole the show," Danner recalls. "They were -- they were stomping on the seats for her. And I was just so proud. And I thought this is, this is meant to be."

It floored dad, too, television producer Bruce Paltrow.

"And after the play he said, 'You know, I don't think you should go back to college. I think, I think you should do this.'"