Kate Hudson Shared the Best Part About Having Sex In Her 40s

Ahead of Kate Hudson’s first lead television role in Netflix’s Running Point, the actress opened up in a new wide-ranging interview, covering a variety of topics—including having sex in her 40s.

Hudson, 45, told Bustle that unabashedness is the quality she finds most important in the bedroom. “The best part about sex in your 40s, honestly, is the freedom,” she told the outlet in the interview, released February 25. “Sex isn’t supposed to be pretty, and I think that when you get older you kind of have more fun with that.”

Hudson—who shares daughter Rani with fiancé Danny Fujikawi—added, “I’m the biggest flirt on the planet. So I think anybody who’s ever been with me is very aware that I flirt with everybody—girls, boys. Thank God Danny is my partner. He can handle this. I met the right guy.” (Hudson also shares son Ryder with Chris Robinson and son Bingham with Matt Bellamy.)

Once a flirt, always a flirt—in the interview, Hudson opened up about the men on the set of Running Point (out February 27), telling the outlet, “I was like, ‘What a dream! We have so many beautiful men to work with everyday!’” She added, “I mean, on this set, I was like, ‘How lucky am I? This is not difficult.’”

Hudson followed her mother Goldie Hawn’s footsteps into acting, saying of her mom, “Mom was really the first actress to produce her own movies…It really was very challenging, but my mom just powered through it and made f*cking great movies. I mean, she knew what she was doing.”

Of son Ryder, 21 (whose father founded the band The Black Crowes): “He’s like, ‘I got to figure out what my life is going to look like and how I’m going to achieve the things that I want to achieve and how I can live,’” she told Bustle. “I think you should be teaching your kids those things way earlier on so that when they get to that point, they’re not like, ‘Oh my God, how do I afford my life and not lean on my family?’”

“At the end of the day, our family is what matters in life,” said Hudson, who is very close to mom Hawn, stepfather Kurt Russell, and her siblings, including brother Oliver Hudson. “From my brothers, to my nephews and nieces, to my sister-in-laws, to my mom, my dad, to my partner, his brothers. I think that’s where the real kind of self-possessed nature comes from.”

Hudson has been an A-list actress since her star turn in 2000’s Almost Famous, but only in her 40s did she start releasing music, which had been on her heart for years. “I’m very clear about the things that I really want to be doing now in my life,” she said. “Whether it’s good, whether it’s bad, I know how my machine wants to function.”

That said, even Hudson experiences moments of self-doubt. “God, you’d be a sociopath if you just had the confidence to walk into anything or be fearless in everything,” she said, adding, “Everybody’s different in what your challenges are. We say challenges, not weaknesses—even though they feel like weaknesses sometimes.”

At this point in her life, Hudson seems to know what she’s looking for—in and out of the bedroom. “It’s not just about finding love,” she said. “It’s really about finding your place, your confidence in the things that you want in your life, whether it’s work or relationships.”

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