Kate Hudson admits to hiding from her children in personal essay

WHEN it comes to motherhood, Kate Hudson is just like you. In a personal essay, she admits she hates homework - and sometimes hides from her kids.

LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 06: Kate Hudson arrives for the european premiere of 'Kung Fu Panda 3' at Odeon Leicester Square on March 6, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images)

Kate Hudson is grateful she’ll never experience life as a stay-at-home mum.

“I wouldn’t be the best mum I could be if I didn’t follow my creative endeavours,” the mum of two explained in a personal essay for InStyle, titled Sometimes I Feel like a Bad Mum. “I would feel an emptiness that would be felt in our home. So a stay-at-home mum will never be my life and that will never be my kids’ experience of me.”

Hudson, 36, who welcomed son Ryder, 12, with then-husband Chris Robinson in 2004, also revealed her bond with her eldest child has always been unique.

“I was really young, like 23, when I had Ryder. So, our relationship has always been [a little unusual],” she wrote. “I mean, we’re close, and I am his mum. I’m big on manners. I’m big on politeness. I’m big on gratitude. But I’m a bit of a wild mum.”

Kate Hudson with eldest son Ryder at the Kung Fu Panda 3 premiere in LA.

The Mother’s Day actress, who shares 4-year-old son Bingham with ex fiance Matt Bellamy, admitted the strains of parenthood sometimes get the better of her.

“Some days I feel like I should win best mum of the day award, and some days I find myself doing strange things that don’t have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realise I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children … Even as I write this, I am travelling for a week away from my children to promote my book, ‘Pretty Happy,’ and I’m so happy to have some time to myself and excited to have this experience,” Hudson noted.

“But there’s this tight, pulling sensation that never goes away that it comes at the cost of missing a week of my children’s lives, and it aches,” she continued.

Though Hudson is an integral part of her children’s lives, she’d rather skip schoolwork and tune in to reality TV instead.

“I help my kids with their homework. But I also get bored doing it,” Hudson shared. “I will sit and listen to my children pontificate and discuss their ideas till the day is long because it warms my heart, but I really don’t want to do math! I’m gonna say it: I’d prefer to watch The Bachelor rather than do fraction and divisions.”

This article first appeared in the New York Post.

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