Goldie Hawn Recalls Daughter Kate Hudson Asking Her 'Mommy, Is God My Cousin' at Age 6: 'I Didn't Know What to Say'

Mar. 15, 2025

Kate Hudson and Goldie Hawn at the November 2022 premiere of ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’ in Los Angeles.Photo:AFF-USA/Shutterstock

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Goldie Hawnis reflecting on raising her daughterKate Hudson— and how she “didn’t know what to say” when Hudson posed a tough question to her at just six years old.

“My daughter Katie, she was six, and she said, ‘Mommy is God my cousin?’ And I didn’t know what to say,” Hawn said while speaking at 1 Hotel South Beach during Art Basel week.

Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson attend the 20th anniversary celebration of the Goldie Hawn Foundation and MindUP Gala in September 2024.Amy Sussman/Getty

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Hawn welcomed Hudson, now 45, in April 1979 with ex Bill Hudson. The pair is also parents toOliver Hudson.

Hawn is also a mom to son Wyatt Russell withKurt Russell, who is also a dad to son Boston Russell with ex-wife Season Hubley.

Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson attend the Stella McCartney “Get Back” Capsule Collection and documentary release of Peter Jackson’s “Get Back” in November 2021.Rich Fury/Getty

Rich Fury/Getty

Outside of reflecting on motherhood, Hawn has also been open about becoming a grandmother of eight.

During a Nov. 20 episode ofMaking Space with Hoda Kotb,The First Wives Clubalum shared how being a grandmother impacted her after she first welcomed a grandchild to the family with the birth of Hudson’s oldest child,Ryder, in 2004.

“When Ryder was born, Kate’s first, I still had a kid at home,” she said, referring to her son Wyatt, who was a teenager at the time.

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Hawn then described the “unbelievable” transition from being a mom to being a grandmother. “It’s an unbelievable weave that starts to happen when your children start to have children. But they’re the parents,” she said. “And what one has to be careful is that we don’t want to be a horn that’s always saying, ‘Why’d you do that?’ and, ‘They should do this,’ and whatever. So Kurt and I give them full autonomy.”

While she added that she does “miss being a mother,” Hawn revealed that it’s “important to cherish” that she was the “it girl” in her children’s lives at one point.

“I do love being a grandmother, but I’m not the boss. I’m just the one that can deliver happiness to them, and also an ear if they need it,” she said.

source: people.com