Kate Hudson has a celebrity squad. She’s not as deliberate about it as say, Taylor Swift, but she has her female friends, she throws parties and she snapchats and instagrams with her buddies. She seems like a fun girlfriend too, like someone who is always suggesting outings and pulling crazy middle of the night shenanigans. Those are the kind of people I can only take in small doses, but I appreciate them at the time. Kate has a new interview with ET where she talks about female friendships and how they’re work just like any other relationship.
“It’s the importance of girlfriends. Guys don’t really talk that much, you know what I mean?” Hudson explained. “They like to hang out, and that’s important too. But women, we need to talk it out, and my girlfriends have been one of my strongest foundations of support.”
The actress got plenty of support on Thursday night, as she got together with Jennifer Garner, Reese Witherspoon, Ali Larter and Halle Berry for a glamorous night out at a Tiffany event in Hollywood.
“You have to put as much effort into that as you do any other relationship. So it’s fun,” she said. “It’s just really nice.”
It seems one night out with her gal pals wasn’t quite enough for Hudson, who embarked on a Thelma and Louise-inspired road trip with Stella McCartney on Friday.
The famous friends headed to Indio, California, where they caught Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones performing at the Desert Trip music festival.
I agree that being a good friend takes work but there’s a lot that’s out of your control too, especially within a group of friends. Two friends of mine are currently fighting and while I’m on one side, I don’t want to snub the other woman because I like her too. My plan is to try and broker a truce but my hurt friend wants me to cut the other woman off. Friendship is not always working with just one person, you can have factions and teams (which is true for romantic relationships too unfortunately). Usually I just pull away when stuff like this happens.
Yesterday Kate spoke at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit about her success with her fitness line, Fabletics. She said that they’re about to make $250 million revenue in three years, which must be at least somewhat due to their extremely misleading business model. She also said “you can only really be as strong and together as the people you have around you.” The Daily Mail pointed out that Fabletics is being sued for wrongful termination by the former vice president of creative. Talitha Peters claims that she took a medical leave and was terminated when she attempted to return to work. You can read more about the case on The Hollywood Reporter.
As a side note I saw Deepwater Horizon last week and it was a solid, entertaining action flick. Kate played the wife at home of Mark Wahlberg’s character and she put in a good performance. It probably wasn’t much of a stretch for her but I liked her scenes.
Here’s Kate at some recent events. The floral dress is Michael Kors. Ew. Her makeup is awful. That satin pantsuit is also a no.
photos credit: WENN and Instagram/Kate Hudson
Good god the styling/makeup is horrific!
She has done something to her face. She looks different.
I think maybe gained a pound or too and it put some fullness back on her.
I think she had injections to her face first, then gained weight to cover it up. This time last year, she had a tiny body and full face so everyone started to talk about it.
She doesn’t impress me on any level.
I’m mostly just disappointed. She was so great in Almost Famous. Showed so much potential. Maybe it was just the right role for the right person at the right time and can’t be replicated with her.
Sorry, I never got what was so great about that performance. She was playing herself, a groupie. What a stretch.
It reminded of when Courtney Love got rave reviews for her performance in “The People Vs, Larry Flynt.” She was playing a drug addicted whore…wow!
At all!! every time i see one of these articles about her nothingburger self promoting her “body of work” and attending the opening of a box of cereal I wonder: “Why?” “What is it about this one that allows her to get this much publicity for flops, lycra clothes and cut out dresses?? (Cause it is not them ridiculous movies, lets face it!)
Whenever she speaks, I feel like I’m getting “pippa tips”. When one has a relationship, one has to put work into it. Yes, thank you captain obvious.
Wow Kate, that’s really revolutionary thinking. Thanks for that.
I mean it shouldn’t be revolutionary, but I know/have been friends with plenty of people who never put the work in but still expect you to be their bff and support them in their times of need. Or they’ll abandon you for another relationship and then come back and expect you to cater to them. So while it should be common sense, it unfortunately isn’t lol.
Unless you are skin and bones, satin has a way of making you look pregnant. WTF at the filter used on that group photo. Is that the erase-our-wrinkles filter?
I love her. She is someone who doesn’t seem to take herself too seriously which I appreciate.
I actually like Kate, and I think she gets a bad rap for no real reason. I think she’s good in movies too. Oscar-worthy? Probably not, but definitely solid enough. Liked her a lot in “Wish I Was Here” with Zach Braff., and she got good critical reviews for that too.
I’ve been watching her snapchat story for a while. She cooks alot with her kids which is lovely, but the other day she put on photo after photo after photo after photo of her body/face/outfit or whatever. Basically the same picture 20 times. I deleted her.
I followed her on instagram for a while. Finally had to delete her because I couldn’t wrap my head around that kind of narcissism. Like you said, artistsnow, it was photo after photo of Kate, Kate, Kate, and most often she was half-dressed and in some ridiculous “sexy” pose. She seems fun and happy and I bet she’s a good friend (and a good mom); but she also clearly bases a lot of her self-worth on how she looks, and how other people perceive her. I didn’t grow up in the world Kate grew up in, but I still don’t understand how someone can be so content to live in such a bubble of privilege and self-absorption. I’ve just never seen any evidence that she has any interests outside of going to glitzy parties, working out, and talking about herself. Even the books she would refer to on instagram were all about self-help. Self-reflection is wonderful, but isn’t there more to life than the pursuit of individual happiness?