Kate Hudson

“You don’t join the circus to live a really straight and narrow life.”

When I was 16 years old, I came home from school one day, and my mom [Goldie Hawn] was doing a photoshoot. I didn’t even realize that it was for InStyle. They asked me to join for a few of the pictures, and it was all very relaxed. I found out later that one of those photos was going to be on the cover. That’s when I was like, “Oh, wow.” It was the first cover of a magazine I was ever on [1996]. That was pretty cool.

Since then InStyle has been a huge part of my professional life. I wanted to work the second I left high school and begged my parents to give me a year off before college. They were like, “Great, but we’re not going to support you.” I was very incentivized to work and ended up living out of a suitcase for about three years, always on a different job. Finally, I got two movies. That’s when InStyle called and asked to take me to Bali for a shoot.