14 DAY TRIAL // Kate Hudson is doing promo work for the thriller “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” her latest film – and it includes an interview with the May 2013 issue of Elle UK as well. One of the topics up for discussion is marriage and family life.
Kate has been engaged to rocker Matt Bellamy for nearly 3 years. They have a healthy baby boy together, with Kate becoming pregnant just 2 months into the relationship.
She admits to Elle that the pregnancy came as a huge shock but, at the same time, that she was intrigued as to how the relationship would evolve with a baby in the picture.
As far as she’s concerned, Matt “proved himself” during the pregnancy so she really doesn’t see the need to get married, in the sense of feeling that this would make them more committed to their life together.
“I knew it would take a strong man to deal with it. You know that with a relationship things can go either way when you have a child. When you get pregnant everything changes: you, your body. Everything becomes a big decision. But he was there and that was that,” Kate says.
“We will get married. I do think it’s important, but we have no plans. [Ryder] wants a party. For me it’s not the legal part that is important, it’s what it means to the family,” the actress says.
Fans will know that this is not the first time that Kate says something to that effect: shortly after she gave birth to her second child, she said that planning a wedding wasn’t a top priority, but family was.
In this, she’s not that different from her famous parents, Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, one of the most solid couples in showbiz.
“When I was a kid, my brothers and sisters and I wanted my parents to get married. We ended up with something far more powerful,” she explains.
“We were all together at home, Dad gave Mum a ring and said some beautiful words. It was their own version of the ceremony and I remember it so well. It was like it was about us. The family was the glue,” Kate adds.