Kate Hudson covers Allure this month. Like Carrie Underwood, she’s promoting her fitness line but she also has a new movie out with Bill Murray called Rock The Kasbah. Allure used a bizarre close up profile photo with her hair all wild and curly. Kate reminds me so much of her mom, Goldie Hawn, in this pic. The interior photos are very revealing and somewhat NSFW and you can see them here. They put Kate in sheer net and lace black dresses and leather gloves. She looks like a high end dominatrix in one shot and like a burlesque flamenco dancer in another.

In Allure, Kate gets somewhat candid about her split with her second child’s father, Muse frontman Matt Bellamy. It’s unclear what happened with that relationship, but I’ve had the impression that Kate wanted out. She’s a free spirit and a baller with men and I don’t see her settling down. She makes it clear that things were lousy without harping on it, and said that she’s moved on and they’re successfully coparenting, basically.

She’s writing a book on happiness
“Happiness is not something that just comes to you,” she says. “It’s an active process.” Hudson has been thinking about these things a lot lately. In fact, she’s working on a book about “throwing perfection out the window. Not an advice book,” she says. “Well, sort of. But it’s about finding what works for you. And I’ll share the things that have worked for me.”

On exercise
“It’s brain chemistry,” she says, although she doesn’t really follow a routine. “People think you need two hours a day to do it, and that’s bullsh-t,” she says. “If you work out 20 minutes a day in some way, you’re going to see changes. Like, I’ve had days where I have the kids—Ryder’s on his bike, and I put Bing in a stroller—and I will run and sprint up hills.” She has been known to pop into downward dog on airplanes. “I do things that people would think look completely insane.”

On her breakup with Matt Bellamy
“Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that or you can choose to reframe it. If Matt and I had a great relationship, we would still be together, but we chose to move on because we had different visions of how we wanted to live our lives. That doesn’t mean, though, that we can’t rebuild something that would be the best thing for the kids

On coparenting with Bellamy
“We said, ‘We need to try to create something for the kids where they feel like they’re gaining something rather than losing something,'” she says. So far, it seems to have worked. “It’s been a seamless transition,” she says. “Kids just want to see their parents be cool. Everybody’s cool; everybody’s good.”

On if she’s looking for another long term relationship
“Being someone who has come from a broken family and has a stepfather,” she says, “I really benefited from having that very consistent [presence] in my life. And it’s something I am mindful of and want in my life.”

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I appreciate that Kate says that you don’t have to work out two hours a day, but that’s where she is now with her level of fitness. She’s admitted that she worked out all day pretty much to shed her baby weight. She doesn’t pull any punches though she’ll tell you what she does to keep that insane figure.

As far as Kate sort-of saying that she wants someone who could be a stepfather to her kids – she may say that but she seems to want to play the field at this point and there’s nothing wrong with that.

Kate Hudson is shown out in NY this week and at an event for God’s Love We Deliver with Michael Kors. (Her dress there is Kors.) That fug floral dress with the sheer layer over metallic shorts is Yanina Couture. Photo credit: WENN and FameFlynet