Kate Hudson Reveals One Rule Dad and mom Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell Raised Her By

If Kate Hudson wanted to be almost famous, she had to do it on her own.

Despite growing up with famous parents Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, the How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days actress said that she and brother Oliver Hudson were not given any handouts.

“I’m being really honest with you, I grew up in L.A. where I saw kids coast by with parents who gave them everything,” Kate said on the Feb. 19 of the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “And I had the opposite parents.”

“We were clearly privileged kids,” the 46-year-old continued. “But 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, that that would never be available to us unless we had the same kind of work ethic.”

But despite being surrounded by other kids whose parents helped them get ahead, Kate accepted her parents’ mindset and “really took that to heart.”