The Academy Award-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow has just opened up to reveal to the world how much weight she has gained in quarantine amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I was absolutely no holds barred. I gained 14 pounds and my gut was a mess,” Paltrow said during a virtual speech at In Goop Health – The At-Home Summit.

Despite the weight gain, Paltrow admitted that initially she “just didn’t want to do anything about it, really.”

“I felt like my wine and my pasta and biscuits and crackers and cheese were getting me through,” the 48 year-old actress explained.

Last month, the former Shallow Hal star confessed on The Art of Being Well podcast with Dr. Will Cole that “COVID happened and I didn’t do my eating plan.”

“I was just having alcohol and pasta all the time,” she said. “And then I sort of hit an eating wall.”

While Paltrow has lost eleven of the fourteen pounds that she gained, doing so was no easy task. She said that this was because of both her age and testing positive for coronavirus early in the pandemic.

“The snap-back that I used to have, if I gained some weight and I wasn’t happy, I could quickly eat really well for a couple days, exercise a lot, and it would all be gone,” Paltrow said. “And that was not happening over the past year.”

“I’ve noticed over the last couple of years that my metabolism has slowed down. I know a lot of that is  perimenopause,” she added. “I’m 48 years old and women tend to lose up to 30 percent of their metabolic speed once they enter into this phase of life. So I know some of it is that. Some of it is because I got COVID.”

In her speech this past weekend, Paltrow also discussed her “intuitive fasting program,” which she started in early January.