Actress Gwyneth Paltrow believes she has more female friends as she gets older.
The 40-year-old actress believes her early success, including winning an Academy Award in 1998, made people wary of her, reported Contactmusic.
"I feel a sisterhood emerging around me. I'm less threatening now that I'm 40 and not 26-with-an-Oscar. They know I've been through a lot of pain and suffering - some public, some private - and I keep going. Or maybe it's just that I was the first one who could afford therapy!," she said.
Paltrow is surrounded with good friends including celebrities Cameron Diaz, Beyonce Knowles and Stella McCartney.
Beyonce, 31, had once said that she is grateful to count the 'Iron Man' actress, who is raising daughter Apple, eight, and son Moses, six, among her best friends because they both understand the demands of managing a high profile career and motherhood.
