Last week Gillian Anderson revealed that she had long felt antagonised by the nannyish tone of the modern wellness movement. Too many rules and an overwhelming sense that you were always getting something wrong. She’d never attended a fitness class, she told Elizabeth Day, and found the whole concept of tracking calories, macros and steps utterly joyless. A week before that, speaking at a beauty event in London, Sarah Jessica Parker had said something similar, admitting that “laziness” had led her to give up the ballet training she’d once used to stay in shape. Nowadays, she just made sure that she climbed a lot of steps.
