Gwyneth Paltrow advocates eating a nutritionally balanced diet. So recently, she placed herself in the position of a person living in poverty, publicly announcing that she accepts the #FoodBankNYCChallenge, which challenges a participant to live on a $29 foot stamp budget for one week.

Her plan ended in miserable failure. She said on Goop:

“As I suspected, we only made it through about four days, when I personally broke and had some chicken and fresh vegetables (and in full transparency, half a bag of black licorice). My perspective has been forever altered by how difficult it was to eat wholesome, nutritious food on that budget, even for just a few days – a challenge that 47 million Americans face every day, week, and year.”

She announced it on April 0, but actually started on April 3.

Which means, by the time she announced it, she had already failed.

Despite the failure, she did successfully publicize the difficulties of having low income.

“After trying to complete this challenge (I would give myself a C-), I am even more outraged that there is still not equal pay in the workplace. Sorry to go on a tangent, but many hardworking mothers are being asked to do the impossible: Feed their families on a budget which can only support food businesses that provide low-quality food.”

She cited statistics released by the White House:

“Full-time women workers earnings are only about 77 percent of their male counterparts earnings. The pay gap is even greater for African-American and Latina women, with African-American women earning 64 cents and Latina women earning 56 cents for every dollar earned by a Caucasian man.”

And she concludes:

“I know hunger doesn’t always touch us all directly — but it does touch us all indirectly. After this week, I am even more grateful that I am able to provide high-quality food for my kids. Let’s all do what we can to make this a basic human right and not a privilege.”