Gwyneth Paltrow wishes her friend Tracy Anderson a happy birthday after former employees revealed a toxic culture

Gwyneth Paltrow took to Instagram on Friday to wish her trainer and former business partner Tracy Anderson a happy 48th birthday just weeks after the fitness trainer’s former employees revealed a toxic culture of paranoia, legal threats and grueling conditions.

The 50-year-old Oscar-winning actress captioned the post: ‘Happy birthday @tracyandersonmethod! I guess you’re not technically a spouse, but we’ve definitely been married for the past 17 years!

‘You have provided what any royal marriage should; love, loyalty and a path to growth (even if it’s painful and sweaty at times!)’, wrote Paltrow.

Tracy responded in the comments section: ‘Ahhhhhhhh I had the best start to my birthday moving in with you! My love is deep and strong for you beauty!

Anderson has spent more than 20 years building her reputation as the fitness guru among Hollywood’s elite and has become known for her holistic approach to health and fitness.

However, there seems to be more than meets the eye when it comes to the entrepreneur’s fitness empire, according to an exposé from Business Insider which was released last month.

Many of his former employees have now begun speaking out about what goes on behind closed doors to reveal an explosive story of legal threats, paranoia, and grueling working conditions.

One former employee said Anderson was paralyzed by fear that someone “smarter and better would steal her things” and had instigated legal proceedings against a handful of former coaches whom she called “second-rate copycats.”

Another source said their bodies were brought to ‘breaking point’ at the level of intensity required of the employees, and the heat of the studios also left them ‘exhausted and dehydrated’.

But Anderson is no stranger to controversy after infamously falling out with one of her most high-profile clients, Madonna, in 2009.

The singer had reportedly grown tired of Anderson’s “personal baggage,” but the fitness guru would later. criticize Madonna for her ‘demands’.

DailyMail.com had contacted a representative for Tracy Anderson for comment.

Tracy – whose previous A-list clients, j lo and Virgin, praised the trainer for her Regime – has been Paltrow’s go-to fitness guru for years.

After giving birth to her second son, Moses, in 2006, Gwyneth found she was still carrying an extra 20 pounds.

The beauty turned to Tracy’s dance cardio regimen where she lost 11 inches in the first ten days.

And soon enough, the couple became business partners and started a fitness empire.

While maintaining a healthy, balanced diet, Paltrow said Women’s Health in 2017 that his incredible physique came down to his training with Tracy.

Clients, who sign up for both the prestige and the workouts, pay $900 a month to learn her Tracy Anderson Method, a dance-based workout in a room heated to 95 degrees with 75 percent humidity.

Gwyneth Paltrow was his first Hollywood client, and so impressed with the results, she decided to invest in Anderson’s business.

He would introduce the trainer to many other famous clients, including Madonna.

Other famous faces soon began to fill her roster, including Alessandra Ambrosio, Nicole Richie, and Kelly Ripa.

Anderson, who became something of a celebrity in her own right, has always been very vocal about anyone she perceived as copying her regime.

when the The Wall Street Journal asked in January which fitness trend he wanted gone forever, he replied: ‘Every person who steals my choreography and calls it method. I wish they would all disappear.

Anderson recently started teaching less frequently and closed one of his studios in Los Angeles.

The fitness guru also had a falling out with Madonna after three years of working together, and the pair have been ice cold ever since.

The singer dumped Anderson after he reportedly had enough of the coach’s “personal luggage.”

A source told the New York Post at the time: ‘Madonna had grown tired of the baggage Tracy always seemed to carry with her. Tracy had become more of a distraction than anything else.

Sharing her opinion on the split, Anderson told her The times: ‘Madonna can demand what she wants to demand, she is Madonna, that’s what she is. It wasn’t working for me because my demands are, like, I have a child.

‘When I missed my son’s saxophone concert due to a training session with her, I thought, ‘I can’t do this anymore.’ That was it for me.

Once Anderson’s business partner, Paltrow appears to have severed business ties, though they continue to train together.

said a source Daily women’s clothing in September 2022 that Anderson now owned her business, but that Paltrow remained a “dear friend and dedicated customer.”

However, in a statement, Insider said: “It is unfortunate that various former trainers, who have been using and profiting from Tracy’s proprietary content for years, are making false and defamatory claims against us while we are currently in active litigation to protect our intellectual property.” . property.’