Kate Hudson made an appearance on The View yesterday to promote that new Zach Braff crowdfunded movie she’s starring in called Wish I Was Here. (You can see the trailer here. Mandy Patinkin is also in it, and it looks cute.) You know who else was on The View yesterday? Royal a**hole Jason Biggs was co-hosting. It seemed fitting to me that he was sitting right next to Jenny McCarthy during this interview like they were best buds.
Anyway Jenny asked Kate if she considers herself an unconventional parent, since she and Zach play “unconventional” parents in this movie. Her answer was very diplomatic and open. I always like Kate when I see her in interviews, she’s so friendly and smiley and it doesn’t come off as fake. Her mom Goldie Hawn is like that too.
Jenny asks if she’s a conventional parent
What is conventional these days? We’ll start with I’ve got two children from two different fathers so that’s definitely unconventional. I’m actually a strict parent. I’m very strict. I’m strict when it comes to manners. I don’t like — I think kids get too much too fast. So Ryder of course wants a cell phone like every 10-year-old kid now. It starts around 10 and I’m just like ‘You can get a pager.’ He can get a pager when he’s 12.Jason Biggs asks if she has plans to get married
Again, I think this goes back to growing up in an unconventional family… We’re happy, we’re married. We’ve got kids and a family and we’ve got to find our time together alone. We are in it. I think if we do get married it will be for the kids, really. For us, we’re just happy.I know that’s not really necessarily a golden ticket but there is something beautiful about the security of marriage. And we’ll get there when we get there.
[From US Magazine and The View]
After Kate said that, Whoopi pointed out that “your mom and dad are perfect examples” of people who “didn’t do it the conventional way.” That’s right, Goldie and Kurt Russell have been together over 30 years but they’ve never married. Goldie has said that’s the way they prefer it and it obviously works for them.
Kate and Matt Bellamy have had an on-off relationship and I don’t think they should get married for the kids at all. It’s probably a better idea for them to just keep things the way they are for now. There’s no hurry to get married.
I love what Kate said about making sure her kids, son Ryder, 10, and Bingham, 3, have manners and aren’t spoiled. I think it’s important to teach kids to be polite and say “please” and “thank you.”
Say what you will about Kate, she always comes across as gracious in interviews and we’ve never heard diva rumors about her. She’ll tell you about her life too, it’s not like she’s dodging personal questions.
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Yes I agree! She does come off as someone sincere and pretty decent. A nice change I’d say
Yes, I’ve always liked her.
2 children from different fathers isn’t so unusual. And hasn’t been in a while.
First thing I thought! I do like her most of the time, but that comment had me cracking up!
Ha! So does her mom. So do a lot of women.
I have to say at two kids by two fathers, that can happen. But when its starts getting to 3×3 or 4x 4, that is just careless you don’t have to breed with every man you fall in love with.
This!
Well my aunt has three from three different dads and two of them were born in wedlock. Sometimes life throws you curve balls, it’s not good to judge.
yes exactly.
Yeah, u never know the situation. But I agree it’s not a good idea to be careless and accidentally get knocked up by some a-hole who then abandons u and the kid, because that will negatively affect the child’s whole life.
Agreed. Live and let live.
Don’t tell Kate Winslet.
@littlemissnaughty,
LOL. She seems to have a kid with every man she’s with or wants to be with. Marriage usually comes afterwards. I’m wondering if she’ll top Liz Taylor in the marriage department. Better hurry up Kate.
You mean Kate Rocknroll ? (her husband’s last name and now their child’s last name).
It just depends. Sometimes stuff happens.
My mom had five kids with three different fathers. My older sister’s dad is Italian, and they were in Italy together–they were engaged. He said that he wanted to have a baby, she agreed, and went off her birth control. When she did actually get pregnant, HE’S the one who completely freaked out and said that he wasn’t ready to have a baby….when it was his idea to begin with.
My ‘dad’ i.e. sperm donor worked with my mom, and lied to her about being married. She had twins–eight years after my older sister was born.
Then she was single for four years until she got married to my dad now, and had two more kids.
It’s hard not to–but I try not to judge. The only thing I judge is whether or not you can take care of your kids. It’s horrible–but when a man leaves, a lot of the time, he doesn’t pack all of the little bags that he helped create. He packs ONE bag.
“It’s horrible–but when a man leaves, a lot of the time, he doesn’t pack all of the little bags that he helped create. He packs ONE bag.” So very much this.
And that’s why it’s so important that being pro-choice is a WOMAN’S choice. Everyone has lots of opinions about what people should do, but when relationships end, it’s usually women who end up with the children, oftentimes living at or below the poverty scale.
I have a friend who has 3 children from 3 different men. Her first husband passed away shortly after they had a son. She remarried several years later. They had a child. He was a cheater. They divorced. She met a man and in her 40’s, and they had a surprise baby. It isn’t like she wanted to have 3 children by three different men but circumstances are what they are. She is a great mom and after much heartache and kissing many toads has a great husband who is a devoted father to their 3 children.
“Breed with” ? Come on, don’t be so rude…
uh..that would be a correct term. Having babies = breeding.
There are plenty of circumstances that can happen- who’s to judge? A friend of mine, married young, husband died in a car accident just days after she gave birth to her first child. 5 years later, she meets a divorced man, has a second child with him, and 2 years later he dies of cancer. I spare you the third- but was she careless? Did she ask for those things? Please let’s not generalize about people/situations we know nothing about. I don’t really think carelessness has anything to do with the number of children/partners involved. More important would be, how you take care of those kids.
seems she left out the part about rock stars.
to me, that is the only thing unconventional about her parenting.
seems like plenty of people in this century have more than one spouse and have children from different spouses. not everyone, but many.
or does she still live in the 1950s?
The Skeleton Key is underrated.
RIght? I LOVE that movie. LOVE.
I love that movie also. So hard.
She was married to one of the men and is engaged to the other. That is the case for many women who have been divorced and remarry; or who had a child before marriage and then married.
anyway..
Oh god the manners thing makes me want to go “Yaaaaassss”. My brother had none until he worked in food service and saw how rude people were. “I don’t want to be like them,” he said, shaking his head. Now it’s “Please/Thank you/Have a nice day/Sir-M’am” from him which I’ve done since I was a kid (or risk a Grandma Dalsim slap). It’s nice to see that change even if it took 15 years and nice that Kate Hudson is starting early.
I love her so much.
She looks so much like her Mom in the third pic.
I nanny in the summers, and I’ve recently imposed “toddler law” on my 11 and 15 year olds. They don’t get anything until they say the magic word. They’re wonderful kids, but I was taught strict manners and it’s important to me. So I appreciate anybody (rich/famous or not) teaching their kids the same way.
YEARS of my dad asking me to “say the magic word” and arguing with him because I hated writing thank-you notes has paid off. People appreciate those things! It’s helped me personally and professionally. Thanks Dad!!!!
What will Ryder do with a pager? Lol! After the pager he can have a rotary dial phone in his bedroom.
When they get really wild, they break out the Morse Coder and he gets it for the whole weekend.
And when they totally lose it, he gets to make smoke signals from a fire.
She’s cool.
Legs for days is all I’ve got to say!!!
She looks completely different to me, and I can’t say specifically what it is.
i KNOW!
i’ve posted before on exactly this.
she has always been “cute” but over the past 2 yrs. or so she looks lovelier, softer.
i think she had something done to her jawline/chin.
her neck was thicker – no defined jawline.
i feel terrible picking her apart…sorry kate.
she has ALWAYS rocked a killer body though.
and she doesn seem down to earth and not stuck-up re her celebrity…
me too, and i think whatever she did is unfortunate
The flatness of her face has become more noticeable in recent years and her eyes are getting more slanted/cat-like/alienesque. I used to think she was super-cute, but now, not so much.
I’ve always liked her, although I heard her on the radio the other day, and she seemed to be affecting this nasally, superior-sounding voice. Very odd.
I always find I like her casual styles better than most if her dressed up ones. I love even more when she lets her hair go curly.
I loved the interview with Zac about this movie, how he could never get it funded. He put a lot of money in himself and then used Kickstarter also. He said Kate was always who he wanted for this role, that he loved her in Almost Famous and thought she was capable of so much more than the rom coms she did afterward.
She makes no apologies for herself, and I’m into that. I’m also pretty impressed at keeping stuff at bay for her 10 year old. People always say ‘good luck with that’ about restricting tech when it comes to kids, but wtf is everyone so afraid of their kids these days? When my kid wants a head implant or whatever’s cool by the time she’s 15 she can get a job and save up for it like I did for everything else.
I love Kurt and Goldie!!!! I love seeing pics of them now in their “golden” years together….
…and in the last photo, Kate is eating a Twizzler. She’s an ok sort.
Right? I mean how bad can you be if you eat twizzlers?
Hahhahaha I thought that too!!!
I like Kate and her mother very much and I totally agree with her choice to marry or not. The paper means nothing really it doesnt. It more a religious thing.. Now with that being said I wonder how many here in this thread had criticized Simpson and having children out of wedlock.. I am not picking a fight here just making a comment and an observation in hypocrasy.
Ok. I like her too but I hate to burst some bubbles. Maybe she’s changed. I had a friend that had a friend, etc…that knew her brother and was around their fam a lot. Said she was a spoiled brat. Now, this was yrs ago, married to Chris. Said she would never let him out of her sight. She would whine and moan if he went out or did something when she had to work and she always wanted him there. They also said she was rude to the brothers now wife. I hope she’s toned it down, it seems she has, b/c “the source” says the fam is awesome.
Hum no, Kate. It is normal now for women to have kids from multiple dads. It also is normal now for women not to be married and raising kids. You’re a couple of generations too late for your situation to be novel or shocking.
In fact, the couple who marry, then have kids and stay together for the rest of their lives are outliers now. You don’t run into people in that situation nearly as often as you meet people who’ve been divorced and either are raising kids alone or with a new spouse.
Why is she making so many funny faces in those photos?
She always reads “smug” to me but I’ve never seen her speak (other than her film roles).