With the environmental disaster drama deep water horizon, KATE HUDSON breaks out of her usual sunny on-screen persona. It’s not the only way she’s changing things up.
OVER THE SUMMER,KATE HUDSON
Instagrammed a photo of herself lounging on a beach with a copy of the book of essays All About Love propped on her bare thigh. Written in 2000 by feminist scholar bell hooks, these meditations on love and solitude would seem more at home in a Fem Theory class than in a celebrity’s bikini selfie. But Hudson is a living example of a quote in the book: “The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet … we would all love better if we used it as a verb.”
Hudson loves as a verb—actively, consciously. She cuddles and cooks with her sons, Ryder, 12, and Bingham, 5; meditates with her mom, Goldie Hawn; and has an open-door policy for her oldest girlfriends, who regularly come over to her L.A. house for impromptu hangouts.
“Kate knows how to get everyone to talk about everything,” says jewelry designer Jennifer Meyer, whose father was Hawn’s agent and who has been friends with Hudson since elementary school. “We know about the kids, every fight you’ve been in with the husband, every breakup, your ex’s girlfriends. You don’t get out of there without telling her every deepest, darkest secret.”
Bringing people together is one of Hudson’s talents, but she also craves alone time. “I love locking myself in rooms and just being quiet,” says the 37-year-old actress. “A lot of people have a hard time in that space, because when you’re quiet, you feel the uncomfortable things. You have to actually look at things in your life that are functioning or not functioning. And I like that place.”
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