Drew Barrymore Doesn't Want to Be the Next Gwyneth Paltrow or Martha Stewart

Find out why the actress insists she's no lifestyle expert

Drew Barrymore makes and sells her own wine. She has a makeup line, a fragrance collection and is the producer of a cooking competition show Knife Fight on the Esquire Network. She's also the editor-at-large of lifestyle website Refinery29.

Even so, the actress-director insists she's not looking to become the next Martha Stewart or Goop guru Gwyneth Paltrow.

In other words, she has no plans to try and build a lifestyle empire.

"Lifestyle seems to me, 'I'm really good at a lot of things. Let me show you how to do them,'" Barrymore told me at Refinery29's holiday party at the Sunset Tower hotel. "I don't feel like I'm that at all."

"In fact," she added, "I'm not good at a lot of things. I'm not like, 'Let me cook and host the perfect dinner.'"

Barrymore is a self-described "bird brain" when it comes to cooking. "I'm like, 'F--k off! Get out of the kitchen! I can't concentrate. I'm cooking something,'" she said, laughing. "I'm not going to be like, 'Here's how you fold the napkin. Here's how you cook the chicken.'"

She went on, "I'm not sure if I would succeed at lifestyle. What I do like is a curation. I'm interested in a lot of things and I want to make wine and I love beauty. I've been in a makeup chair my whole life so I love doing a makeup line. And it's more conducive to my life than movies right now, which I'll do few and far between or I'm not going to see my children. I can't accept that for myself right now. It's not an option."

Blake Lively also recently started her own lifestyle brand and website, Preserve. Ellen DeGeneres plans to launch E.D., a fashion and home goods website, next year. Reese Witherspoon will also join the market with a southern-inspired lifestyle collection website and brick-and-mortar stores.