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" Everything about Kate Hudson&amp;#039;s downtown New York City brownstone exudes a Zenlike cool, which is accentuated by a giant statue of the Hindu god Ganesha that looms behind a muted beige couch. If not for the flat-screen TV (tuned to a soccer match), this writer-who was let in by a housekeeper-may have been lulled into a meditative state. But then Kate flings open the front door and ushers in a burst of activity. She cruises to the kitchen, tidying the counter, putting things away, grabbing a bottled water, and moving at 100 mph, which appears to be her default speed setting. After a few moments, she settles into a chair, kicks off her heels, and swings one bare foot up onto the table, exclaiming, &amp;quot;Okay, let&amp;#039;s do this!&amp;quot; Despite her frenetic pace, Kate seems to maintain an even keel\u2014one that enables her to weather life&amp;#039;s rough spots and come out, well, smiling. Case in point: Al though she split from Chris Robinson two years ago, the Black Crowes front man is still very much a presence\u2014in fact, when he enters the house midinterview, Kate gleefully shouts &amp;quot;Hey, Daddy!&amp;quot; then quickly adds, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m doing an interview\u2014 don&amp;#039;t say anything crazy!&amp;quot; She shushes him off to the living room, where he and their 4-year-old son, Ryder, get down to some playful roughhousing. Like most working moms, Kate, 29, has become a master juggler-not only keeping her busy acting career humming along (her newest flick is the romantic comedy My Best Friend&amp;#039;s Girl, with Dane Cook, and she recently wrapped Bride Wars, with Anne Hathaway) but also taking on side projects that she&amp;#039;s passionate about. Her latest: launching a line of organic beauty products with hairstylist David Babaii, called David Babaii for Wild- Aid, that benefits the organization and fights the illegal wildlife trade. Kate serves as the face and spokesperson for the line as well as its chief guinea pig. &amp;quot;David will spray my hair and go &amp;#039;Oooh, no, that didn&amp;#039;t really work....&amp;#039; Then he&amp;#039;ll go back to work,&amp;quot; explains Kate. &amp;quot;The only time-consuming thing is going out and promoting it. But making a movie, that&amp;#039;s difficult. You&amp;#039;re working 15-to 18-hour days.&amp;quot; Of course, on top of motherhood and work, Kate manages to have a little fun. &amp;quot;I put Ryder to bed at 8, and then I have an adult life. I meet up with friends and go to dinner.&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s clear she cherishes these moments, but her seemingly boundless energy does have limits. &amp;quot;You know what? I am pooped at the end of the day,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;Dinner is as far as I get.&amp;quot; And while she may not be raising the roof at nightclubs, her social life isn&amp;#039;t exactly sedate either. As of press time, the paparazzi had their prying lenses focused on Kate because there was speculation over why she may have split from her most recent beau, seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. When asked about their romance, Kate smirks then takes a swig from her water bottle, as if to buy herself a few seconds to decide how to respond. She deflects the query and relays this story: &amp;quot;Somebody once asked me what I&amp;#039;m most comfortable wearing, and I said, &amp;#039;To be honest, I just walk around naked.&amp;#039; Next thing you know, headlines are saying &amp;#039;Kate Only Wants to Be Naked.&amp;#039; And then &amp;#039;Kate Hudson: Exhibitionist!&amp;#039; And you&amp;#039;re like, What? It&amp;#039;s like high school.&amp;quot; It turns out, Kate has a thing or two to say on the subject of tabloid gossip. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ll sit down with a girlfriend who&amp;#039;s also an actress, and we&amp;#039;ll go &amp;#039;Oh, you were making out with him too? The same day? Weird!&amp;#039; It is literally a joke. There was one week I was linked to four different guys, two of whom I&amp;#039;ve probably never met.&amp;quot; While it&amp;#039;s clear that sometimes romantic rumors are complete rubbish, &amp;quot;a couple of the gossip sites get it right,&amp;quot; Kate admits. &amp;quot;But then they elaborate on it and make it their own soap opera. It&amp;#039;s strange.&amp;quot; When pressed about her dating life and her somewhat eclectic taste in men, Kate admits, &amp;quot;I mean, my taste is kind of all over the place. Always has been. I don&amp;#039;t have a specific type.&amp;quot; Perhaps she&amp;#039;s comfortable around all kinds of guys because she&amp;#039;s spent much of her life in their presence, growing up the lone girl in a household that included a brother, a stepbrother, and a half-brother. One of the themes of her new movie, My Best Friend&amp;#039;s Girl-whether women and men can just be friends-is something she often ponders with her girlfriends. So can they? &amp;quot;Intellectually, yes,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;But instinctually? No. There&amp;#039;s always one of you who would throw down [the other],&amp;quot; Kate says, giggling. That said, Kate has managed her friendship with her ex nicely. When asked if she&amp;#039;d marry again, she says, &amp;quot;Yeah, totally,&amp;quot; then leans her head back and shouts into the living room: &amp;quot;Chris, would you be open to marriage again?&amp;quot; She laughs and continues, not waiting for his reply. &amp;quot;It just depends on the person you meet-if it&amp;#039;s important to them, if it&amp;#039;s important to you....When I met Chris, I fell in love instantly. I met him on a Thursday, moved in on Sunday, had a baby a couple of years later, and divorced seven years later....&amp;quot; She continues: &amp;quot;Look-we&amp;#039;re still basically living together! We&amp;#039;ve figured it out. I mean, obviously nothing&amp;#039;s perfect, but I could never look at [our divorce] as a mistake. If anything, it&amp;#039;s the best thing that ever happened to us.&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s exactly that type of positive spin that is quintessentially Kate. &amp;quot;I understand that relationships change,&amp;quot; she says, &amp;quot;and sometimes not the way you expect them to.&amp;quot; For more on My Best Friend&amp;#039;s Girl \u2014 including pics, a Facebook app, and more \u2014 visit the official movie Website. Check out how Kate&amp;#039;s hair and fashion got makeovers throughout the years! You&amp;#039;ll love flipping through her Celeb Hair Evolution and Star Style Evolution. Want to know how Kate gets her gorgeous hair? Check out her hair product line, David Babaii for WildAid. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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