Kate Hudson: Happy parents equal happy baby

Actress Kate Hudson, who describes her divorce from musician Chris Robinson as "really, really hard," says dating as a single mom is even harder. In September’s Harper Bazaar, Kate says:

Dating becomes very different. You realize after you have had children that you’ll never love anything more than your child. … So it makes the new sort of single-mom dating process very different. It’s like growing up. It’s adult.

A celebrity baby in her own right, Kate maintains that the first concern for she and Chris will always be what’s best for their 3-year-old son Ryder Russell.

For both Chris and me, our main focus is, and was, Ryder. And happy parents, happy baby. Therefore, I love Chris to pieces.

The actress says she doesn’t regret her 6 1/2 year marriage to the Black Crowes frontman.

He’s my first huge love. I spent seven years with Chris. I was 20 when I met him. We still talk everyday. He still cracks me up. And Ryder feels that.

However, Kate does admit that she doesn’t see another marriage in her future.

I don’t know. I checked that off my list of to-dos. And I can check off divorce. The idea of marriage, I realize now, no longer holds the answer to anything.

Kate has a great example of a successful, non-married couple in her parents, actors Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. The couple have been together since 1983 and have publicly admitted that they have no plans to ever legally marry. Regardless of whether Kate makes another trip down the aisle, she does insist that she would like to give Ryder a few siblings.

I’d love to have more kids. Of course. I’ve always wanted to have a lot. My dream is to have four.

Source: People

Thanks to CBB reader Christine

Comments

I really have respect for divorced/ seperated parents who stay friendly and civil for their kids. She’s right – happy parents make a happy kid. That child shouldn’t suffer because the marriage didn’t work.

- Monica on August 8th, 2007

If she “loves Chris to pieces” and “talks to him everyday” then why couldn’t she have just gone to couples therapy and tried to make it work? Obviously I have no idea what really went on in their marriage, but I kind of feel that as long as there is some love left there, you should try your best to stay together –especially if you have kids. Just my opinion!

Glad they are mature enough to be friendly for their son’s sake though. It makes a HUGE difference.

- PSB on August 8th, 2007

I wondered about couples therapy too, but we don’t know what else went on in the marriage and I know several people who still care for each other but just couldn’t make it work. Maybe they did and it didn’t work either. At least they are getting along for the sake of their son…I think that is enough in this day and age of bitter divorces and the “he said, she said” crud.

On a side note: didn’t Goldie and Kurt split a while back? Are they together again, cause that would ROCK!

- jackie on August 8th, 2007

I would say that they are friends she has love for him as you do your friends but she is not in love with him. Just because they are not together doesn’t mean she has to hate him. Sometimes two people as a couple just doesn’t work. The fact that they keep things so peaceful for their son is great.

- brandy on August 8th, 2007

I like kate, she was/is a young celebrity mom, and seems like a good mom. She went through a divorce without going nuts and seems to try to be civil with her ex, for the sake of their child. Funny I always felt she would be like her mom goldie to have more kids, but not marry again. I would love to see her with a little girl one day.

- gabriella on August 8th, 2007

yeah thats why she was caught coochee cooing with that idiot shephard!!

- rodrick on August 13th, 2007