Kate Hudson is opening up about why she hopes fame won’t be the end-all, be-all for her kids.
The “Running Point” star, 46, told Fox News Digital that she hopes to show her children Ryder, 22, Bingham, 14, and Rani, 7, the importance of life beyond the spotlight, explaining, “My thing is, if my kids drive or purpose is for fame and success, then it’s something that would feel like a failure of mine.”
She added: “If that is how they equate feeling significant, then, you know, they’re being fed a lie.”
Hudson noted that “the most important thing” to her as a parent is for her children to feel “self-possessed,” adding, “That they understand what really drives purpose, and what does a purposeful life look like for them, and where do they hold their values, right? What are those values and why?”
“And if you value fame and success, we’d probably have a big sit down,” she concluded.
Hudson explained that fame and success don’t “constitute or create a really fulfilling life,” adding, “What does is that the work that they’re doing is bringing them, hopefully, purpose and community purpose.”
The “Song Sung Blue” star shares Ryder with ex-husband Chris Robinson, Bingham with ex Matt Bellamy and Rani Rose with fiancé Danny Fujikawa.
Hudson — who is the daughter of Bill Hudson — was raised by her mother Goldie Hawn and her longtime partner Kurt Russell, reflected on her own childhood during an appearance on the ”Happy Sad Confused” podcast in February.
”I grew up in L.A. where I saw kids coast by with parents who gave them everything,” she shared at the time. “I had the opposite parents.”
After noting that she and her siblings were “clearly privileged kids,” she added, “I do think that my parents were so adamant about how none of it belonged to us, that we didn’t earn it, that in order to get a life [like the one] we were living, we had to earn it ourselves. I was so happy my last name was Hudson … That was my big thing, like, ‘I will never take a job because of them. I don’t want anybody knowing they’re my parents.'”
The Oscar-nominated actress told Fox News Digital that she has been a “worker bee” since the start of her career, saying, “I work really hard, and I think that my thing with my kids is you just have to keep chipping away at the things that you love, and you have to show a really strong work ethic and get devoted to the things you love.”
“And keep working at it because everybody recognizes a hard worker and kindness. I mean that’s success, right?” she continued.
“Running Point” season 2 premieres on April 23 on Netflix.