Martha Stewart attends the Marc Jacobs fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Spring 2015 at Park Avenue Armory on September 11, 2014 in New York City.Jamie McCarthy
Martha Stewart has a message for young Hollywood actresses trying to crowd her action: Stick to acting and leave the lifestyle advice to a pro.
Stewart, 73, directs some tough words toward Gwyneth Paltrow and Blake Lively in an interview published in the newest issue of Net-a-Porter's Porter magazine, reports E! Online.
Off the top, Stewart addressed Paltrow's website, Goop, which launched in 2008 and currently dispenses all manner of lifestyle advice (and naturally enables readers to buy goods to help them attain that lifestyle).
Stewart's advice for Paltrow: "She just needs to be quiet – she's a movie star. If she were confident in her acting, she wouldn't be trying to be Martha Stewart."
Stewart was only slightly less dismissive of Lively, who launched her own Goop-style lifestyle website called Preserve earlier this summer.
When asked about Lively's new venture , Stewart expressed doubt that the 27-year-old actress wife of Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds had the right passion for the lifestyle mission.
"I had the passion," said Stewart. "Every entrepreneur talks about the passion you have for your work, and I think that's what's missing with a lot of women in business today."
Then again, it's entirely possible Stewart was just in a bad mood on the day of the interview.
In the same article, Stewart – who famously spent six months in prison in late 2004 following her conviction for insider trading – describes her dissatisfaction with the Netflix women's-prison drama Orange is the New Black and, more pointedly, with lead actress Taylor Schilling.
"They could have done it so much better," snipes Stewart. "That girl is not good enough, the lead actress."
And yes, that's the same Taylor Schilling who recently received an Emmy nomination for Best Actress.