As the daughter of Goldie Hawn, the Academy Award-nominated star Kate Hudson may have grown up as Hollywood royalty, but that doesn’t mean that life is easy for her now as a working mom trying to coparent three children with three different fathers. In a new interview with Sunday TODAY, Hudson opened up about what this is really like for her.
“I’ve got multiple dads, I’ve got kids all over the place,” said Hudson, 41 “The only expectations I really have that are really high on my life is with my kids and with family stuff. Other than that, it’s like, I just let it go.”
Hudson is mom to her 17-year-old son, Ryder, with ex-husband Chris Robinson; 9-year-old Bingham with ex-fiancé Matt Bellamy; and her youngest child, Rani Rose, 2, with boyfriend Danny Fujikawa. She said that her main secret to keeping the peace is not harping on issues with her exes.
“I work my ass off, and then I walk away, and I hope for the best,” Hudson explained.
Raising a blended family has been especially difficult in lockdown over the passed year amidst the coronavirus pandemic.
“I wanna be, like, ‘Yeah, it’s so great and … we’re figuring out,’ but the reality is that there are days that are great, and there are days that I have to remind myself to be grateful,” Hudson said, admitting that she feels overwhelmed more often than not.
“I never thought in a million years that I’d spend a year in one place,” she said. “And when you have so many kids, sometimes you have those moments where you’re hiding in your bathroom going, ‘Please, please, get me out of here!’”
Though Hudson said she makes “mistakes all the time,” she added that she would not trade motherhood for the world, regardless of how difficult it gets.
“I’ve yelled at my kids too much, and I’ve also cursed in front of them, and I also haven’t shown up for things because I was out of town,” she said. “But at the same time, I have days where I’m like, ‘I’m a f—king supermom’ … I’m cooking, cleaning, doing homework, changing diapers and I worked out. What I’ve learned — and what I’m learning — is that I’m doing the best I can.”
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