Kate Hudson compares her pregnancy-brain to being stoned

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Kate Hudson is stepping up promotion of her latest interchangeable romantic-comedy, Something Borrowed, and she’s been doing many, many interviews. In true Kate Hudson fashion, though, she barely discusses the film at all. She’s pregnant, so it seems more like she’s promoting her bump. But it’s fine – I like that she’s the kind of celebrity who likes talking about herself and what’s going on in her life. In an interview with Extra, Kate said that being pregnant “is wonderful. You do get the pregnant mush-brain… you know what it’s like? It’s like getting stoned.” See? I said that the other day – pregnant women always looked stoned to me. It’s the hormones – the hormones give pregnant women that blissed-out, hungry look that I associate with being stoned. Kate also talked about gaining weight with this pregnancy, saying, “My doctor looked at me and goes, ‘So let’s try not to gain 68 pounds this pregnancy,’ I told her I wasn’t promising anything.” Haha, that’s kind of funny. Anyway, Kate covers the new issue of InStyle Magazine, and People Magazine has some excerpts from the magazine:

When the news first broke that Kate Hudson was expecting a baby with British rocker Matthew Bellamy, many wanted to know more about him. And now, Hudson herself has opened up about their love story, including sharing how they met and offering a peek into what led to her surprise pregnancy.

“You always hear people say, ‘I never thought this would be the person I would end up with,’ but I don’t think you ever really know,” Hudson, 31, says in the May issue of InStyle, on newsstands April 22. “I love that Matthew knows how to express himself. He shows his love. He communicates.”

The musically-inclined couple met for the first time at the renowned Coachella music festival, Hudson says.

She was “watching Radiohead’s Thom Yorke with a guy I knew from high school, who introduced me to Matthew,” says Hudson. “We realized we had met a few years earlier, in Australia. Then I got distracted and said, ‘I’ve got to find my friends; I don’t know where they went.’ He just looked at me and said, ‘Come on, I’ll take care of you.’ That’s when I went, ‘Wait a minute, who are you?’ ”

Bellamy, 32, lead singer of the band Muse, eventually asked Hudson for her number, and the rest, as they say, is history. But what kept her interested in those early days?

“Matthew was polite and immediately protective, which for somebody like me who’s all over the place – one minute I’m over here and the next I’m over there – is important.” Plus, she adds, “He is just an amazing person.”

That said, Hudson didn’t feel the thunderbolt that assured her that he was “the one.”

“In the beginning I felt like, okay, this is going to be heavy. Am I prepared for this? Because it had been a while, and I wasn’t looking for that,” she tells InStyle. “But I just couldn’t stay away. I wanted to talk to him and be with him all the time. On our first dates we would take long walks and talk the entire day.”

Soon enough they were in love – and, says Hudson, pregnancy seemed a natural progression, even though it wasn’t exactly planned.

“Well, it wasn’t like we didn’t know what we were doing,” says Husdon with a laugh. “There were no ovulation kits involved. We were tempting fate, and it worked.”

Adds Hudson, who has a 7-year-old son Ryder with ex-husband Chris Robinson: “I didn’t think I was going to have another kid until I was maybe 33 – that was in the back of my mind before I met Matthew. But we were so in love when it happened, it was just so exciting for both of us.”

[From People]

Aw, that sounds sweet. I do think Bellamy cares for her, honestly, and I think they’re very happy together – for now. We’ll see where they are in a few years. Oh, and who is Kate trying to kid with “This is going to be heavy. Am I prepared for this? Because it had been a while, and I wasn’t looking for that”? She hooked up with Bellamy just a few months after a relatively serious relationship with Alex Rodriguez, and she had spent those months in between A-Rod and Bellamy hooking up with several different men. Yeah, maybe she wasn’t really looking for anything serious at the moment she met Bellamy, but she’s definitely the kind of girl who is always searching for a boyfriend.

Oh, and Kate is convinced she’s having a girl – she’s even employing some witchy old wives’ tales to convince us!

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  1. mia girl says:

    Having experienced both a few times, well pregnancy only 3 times, but pot well it was more like… oh I digress…

    Yes, this analogy is accurate. 🙂

  2. Leticia says:

    He sounds like a wonderful guy, but I don’t get how so many women think he is physically cute.

  3. Coleen says:

    I’m not gonna lie… every time I’ve tried that witchy wives tale? It’s worked. Multiple testers, multiple testees. But then again, you have a 50/50 shot of getting it right.

  4. Lenn says:

    I agree!

  5. Elj says:

    Hmmmm.

  6. WillyNilly says:

    “But it’s fine – I like that she’s the kind of celebrity who likes talking about herself and what’s going on in her life.” Since when?! Isn’t that pretty much what Goop does?

  7. Elizabeth says:

    Sorry to be a bummer but I just see this as her wanting another child and he was there – her current “oh, I’m so in love” guy. Her “tempting fate”? Whatever. She is a beauty though.

  8. MorticiansDoItDeader says:

    I tried the ring trick and chineese birth chart, both said I was having a girl. I just gave birth to my second son less than two weeks ago.

  9. tiki says:

    gee, i wonder how all the women who have to work and take care of a family while pregnant do it. i mean, they’re functionally stoned the entire time according to kate. how is it they’re not perpetually on vacation and talking about themselves? oh, that’s right. they’re real women with real lives. get over yourself, kate.

  10. Coco says:

    @Leticia He obviously is not the kind of guy you go all “wow” when you look at him for the first time, but once you see him on stage he absolutely wins you. He is truly an amazing musician and an amazing person.

    That was a cute read, hope everything works for them.

  11. Crash2GO2 says:

    All I know is, my logical thinking brain went out the window for 9 months. It was king of scary. lol

  12. Ruby says:

    Everytime I had a baby my IQ went down. I just had my 3rd & I feel like a real ditz. I wish this brain drain was like getting stoned but its not. As for old wives tales I had terrible heat burn throughout my last pregnancy and behold my little girl has a shock of black hair.

  13. Janna says:

    I love her in interviews. She’s vicacious and not guarded. I saw her on a Entertainment show last night, and she was adorable.

    Matt Bellamy is one of the most brilliant musicians out today. Muse is a massive band and he composes symphonies, writes all of their songs, sings, is an amazing guitarist, is a pianist. The guy is brilliant musically and a great frontman, which is why I guess they are so big all around the world. His last girlfriend/fiancee for years was a psychology student, Italian, beautiful. I was surprised when they broke up. But being in a band and gone a lot, I guess it was inevitable. She seemed to want to live in Italy (which he followed her and lived there) and work, and he never married her, just stayed engaged.

  14. Janna says:

    @Tiki, I agree with her and it appears on here do too. I was a space cadet for a lot of my pregnancy. She didn’t say she couldn’t function.

  15. Jennifer says:

    @Tiki ITA. This tired line about pregnancy subtly justifies job- discrimination against women of childbearing age, and against pregnant women themselves. Most pregnant women with deadlines, a roof to keep over their heads and general sh** to do save their “pothead” self for late night when they have time. I’ve been watching pregnant women keep it together all my life. And I have known too many highly successful/prestigious pregnant women, to buy the line about the average pregnant lady’s IQ shrinking during pregnancy — that’s an excuse, or joke…fine. But when you HAVE to get stuff done, and HAVE to have a job, this type “common knowledge” about pregnant women and how “brainless”!” they are doesn’t help peoples’ perception of the women who don’t have the luxury of being brainless during pregnancy. My best friend maintained a 4.0 GPA throughout *both* her pregnancies as a fulltime science student taking advanced chemistry, all that hard “cold logic” stuff, AND she worked as a waitress 30 hours per week throughout both pregnancies.

  16. kazoo says:

    @elizabeth, i agree. when she was with arod, there were strong rumors about her wanting another baby & that being one of the reasons they broke up. seeing as how she got pregnant by the next dude she dated, it sounds about right.

  17. soso says:

    What she doesn’t say is that she was in Cochella to meet and try to hook up with Radioheads lead singer – Thom Yorke. Yorke didn’t go for it, so here comes Muse lead singer and bam sucker fell for it!

  18. lemon drops says:

    so true…my IQ felt like it dropped by half by 4 weeks…it’s rediculous

  19. kazoo says:

    @soso, omg. please tell me more! and wtf, yorke has been with his gf (wife? i’ve never heard of them marrying) for ages & has kids. his gf has a doctorate, right? i’ve always wanted to know what she looks like, not that it matters, but just to see what he’s into. (if you can’t tell, i’m a bit obsessed with radiohead!)

  20. TQB says:

    While I am preggers and certainly have my moments of feeling rather… dotty, I am also uncomfortable with referring to all pregnant women as perma-stoned. I’m still at work, doin’ my thing, bitches. Sometimes I have to work a little harder to compensate. More notes and lists.

    Anyway, I believe in the pregnancy brain but I share @Jennifer’s concerns about the stigma of continuing to talk about it like it’s a serious impairment or something. It isn’t THAT bad.

    However, I love Kate’s response to her doctor on the weight issue. Too many people make too big a deal about weight gain during pregnancy. So she gained 68 pounds – she had a healthy baby and lost it all. It matters more how well you eat. Don’t eat cake all the time. Your body takes care of the rest.

  21. Amandahugandkiss says:

    Pregnancy brain is a truth. I remember how it hurt to think. I would be in a meeting at work, and in the middle of a sentence, I would completely forget what I was talking about. Between that and the constant running to the loo for weeing/throwing up (sometimes at the same time- don’t ask), I looked like a total ass.

    Pregnancy brain is unstoppable- if you have it bad, and you are a regular person, you cannot simply put it to the side at work and ‘deal with it’ when you get home. Like a crude, wolf-whistley construction worker, it can strike at any time.

  22. Shut up! says:

    @Jennifer OMG, shut up. “Pregnancy brain” happens to a lot of women. NO ONE said that it makes women incapable of functioning at a normal rate or that they couldn’t maintain their 4.0.

  23. Johnny Depp's Girl says:

    Spoken like a true hippie!! 🙂

  24. Janna says:

    @Shut up. Exactly. I felt like a space cadet a lot, but I functioned and worked a full-time job in the legal field. Kate appears to have been functioning all this time, too. Everything has to be so PC correct these days.

  25. Jennifer says:

    @Shut up- If people say your IQ drops when pregnant, they are in fact implying that pregnant women, in your words, “can’t function at a normal rate”. This is why women in engineering and science fields get so much BS when they get pregnant. (And then there are the women who exacerbate the whole thing by saying they have “mommy brain” after the baby is born.)
    Not everyone is pregnant in the “we love and honor pregnant women” world. Discrimination against pregnant women is real, especially if you work in certain fields or if you’re a poor or single woman who has to support herself. @Janna, I never said Hudson wasn’t functioning – though “functioning” as a currently nonworking millionaire celebrity doesn’t seem tough, pregnant or not. I know from having pregnant women friends and family that plenty of women experience “pregnancy brain” as being more introverted, sensitive, or thoughtful. Limiting it to mainly equaling or being best-defined as “lowered IQ/stoned” is all ways of saying pregnant women are inept. If you feel that way as a pregnant woman, fine, but “pregnancy brain” is experienced as different things by different women.

  26. mia girl says:

    @Jennifer
    As a professional working woman who has worked full time through three pregnancies, I have actually found that there is much more discrimination AFTER pregnancy than during. Use your passion to focus on the discrimination that “working moms” deal with day in and day out. It is more prevalent.

  27. Francesca says:

    She would know.

  28. blouson says:

    I actually hate the stories about the women that got a 4.0 GPA,, discovered a cure for cancer or learnt to surf while pregnant more than the pothead comment. My problem with it is this: like most biological events gestation impacts difreently on individuals. I actually felt with one pregnancy that I couldn’t function at the same workload as before. Funny what relentless nausea will do to you…yet got very little support for that. Next pregnancy was much easier. But the worst are those female bosses that swanned through a preganancy feeling fab and assume you are a pathetic lieing cow for flaking a bit when you feel awful for months at a stretch. Reality: for some women pregnancy DOES seriously reduce their effectiveness in the workforce/university etc. If I was having chemo everyone would have been lovely to me (and basically the effect was the same), but because I was just having a baby…no support AT ALL.

  29. Isa says:

    I’m pregnant again and I feel so spacey and dumb! It drives me crazy. I have to work so hard to concentrate. Much harder than when I’m not pregnant.
    At work I’ll walk from the back to the front and have no idea what I was going to do by the time I got there!
    I don’t feel blissed out, I feel frustrated. It doesn’t make you dumb, it just makes you feel dumb. And you’re more likely to do dumb things. 🙂

  30. Cirque28 says:

    LOL @ Francesca.

    It seems like the effects of pregnancy on a woman’s brain vary widely. I have a demanding career and was *determined* not to slow down, but my brain had other ideas. I stared off into space a lot. And stockpiled ice cream until you’d have thought an ice cream apocalypse was imminent. (Bags of peas. That’s the whole trick. You can hide anything in the freezer if you have enough bags of frozen peas.)

  31. Vickyb says:

    I like her, and I like this interview. But I had the same with my boyfriend. We hadn’t been together very long at all, but were stupidly in love and knew that we were ready to add a baby whenever a baby was ready to come along… hence we started ‘tempting fate’ too. The thought of adding another human being into all that love was crazy-exciting…

    … and that’s what we did. Four months pregnant and both so unbelievably excited, and solid, and ready.

    And the pregnancy brain thing? I kind of agree with not making it a bigger deal than it is – I’ve just carried on doing the same thing I’ve always done (two jobs, over 60 hours a week) and I’m a bit tired, but anyone would be with that work schedule. I still manage to come home, clean, cook, chill, see friends etc. I think a certain amount of it is kinetic energy – if you keep going, you’ll keep going. If you stop you’ll never start up again!

  32. Vickyb says:

    Oh, and I love what she’s wearing! So if anyone knows where it’s from, please help a pregnant girl out – I hate all the mumsy, frumpy clothes out there for preggos!

  33. truetalk says:

    i love her son’s haircut

  34. normades says:

    @soso: yeah I read her statements like she wasn’t really attracted to him but was in the market for a rockstar.