{"id":71102,"date":"2016-02-21T22:13:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T03:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=71102"},"modified":"2016-02-21T22:13:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T03:13:21","slug":"kate-hudson-on-pretty-happy-and-her-mom-buddies-in-the-lifestyles-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/02\/21\/kate-hudson-on-pretty-happy-and-her-mom-buddies-in-the-lifestyles-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Hudson on ‘Pretty Happy’ and her ‘mom buddies’ in the lifestyles world"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kate Hudson’s new book, Pretty Happy: Healthy Ways to Love Your Body (Photo courtesy of Harper Collins’ website<\/a>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TORONTO\u2014As Kate Hudson establishes her own lifestyles empire with a line of athletic wear and a new book, she feels a camaraderie, not competition, with other actors who’ve made a similar move.<\/p>\n

The Oscar-nominated star’s new book, \u201cPretty Happy: Healthy Ways to Love Your Body,\u201d comes after Cameron Diaz’s \u201cThe Body Book\u201d and Gwyneth Paltrow’s weekly lifestyle publication Goop. Then there’s Jessica Alba’s Honest Company and Blake Lively’s now-defunct website Preserve, to name but a few.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe truth is, most of the girls you just talked about are literally my girlfriends,\u201d Hudson, who also has her Fabletics line of sportswear, said in a recent phone interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s almost like we’re like mom buddies and we get excited about talking about these things. None of them is better than the next one. We’re all in it together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hudson said she feels \u201cany woman’s success is your success, for women.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo when I see my friends succeed or put a positive message out there, like Jessica and like Gwyneth, it’s amazing,\u201d said the 36-year-old, who has two sons.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m so proud to be friends with them. To see women succeed and have that kind of success in their life should be absolutely celebrated\u2014absolutely celebrated\u2014in this day and age.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPretty Happy\u201d is structured around what Hudson calls her \u201cfour pillars of health,\u201d explaining everything from mindfulness to the benefits of an alkaline diet and Ayurvedic medicine.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it’s more of a dialogue with women, more of an open conversation hopefully about everybody’s differences,\u201d said Hudson, who won a Golden Globe and got an Oscar nomination for playing socialite Penny Lane in the 2000 drama \u201cAlmost Famous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hudson said she wrote the book, in part, because she was frustrated after constantly being asked in interviews what her secrets are to looking so great and not being able to fully explain in a sound bite.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody always asks me that question: ‘What do you do to balance, how do you do this and how do you do that?’ and I always feel so weird talking about myself, because I’m aware and I know that that’s just not going to work for everybody,\u201d said the Los Angeles native.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of it being all these magazines that I get interviewed in and I answer a question and then it gets taken out of context, I really want to put what my philosophy is out there for those who care to read it.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then I feel like I don’t have to keep saying: ‘No, that’s not what I meant. No, I don’t work out 2 1\/2 hours a day. That’s impossible. No, I don’t eat only vegan.\u201d’<\/p>\n

Hudson said she learned the benefits of being active and eating well as a kid. Her mom, Goldie Hawn, and stepdad, Kurt Russell, were role models in that way.<\/p>\n

These days, she feels more carefree, self-assured and stronger than when she was in her early 20s. Rumours have been flying that she’s even dating someone in his 20s\u2014pop star Nick Jonas. (A question about those rumours was shot down by a publicist.)<\/p>\n

While Hudson still fluctuates in emotion and mood from time to time, she has \u201cmore acceptance of the things that life brings and moving with them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I felt like I could finally just accept what is, instead of putting expectations on myself or putting expectations onto other people or putting expectations onto what my career should look like or putting expectations onto whatever it is, once you actually start dealing with what is and what’s happening now, I just felt an inner freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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