Kate Hudson Responds To Backlash Over Raising Her Daughter 'Genderless'

Kate Hudson experienced what far too many mothers do on social media over the past few days: ruthless mom-shaming. The 39-year-old actress recently welcomed her third child, a daughter named Rani Rose. Kate is also mom to 15-year-old son Ryder Robinson, as well as 7-year-old son Bingham Bellamy

During a recent interview with AOL, Kate responded to a question about whether her parenting style differs between raising her sons and her daughter, saying "it doesn’t really change my approach, but there’s definitely a difference. I think you just raise your kids individually regardless — like a genderless [approach]."

After her comments went viral, Kate experienced backlash for her comments about taking a genderless approach to parenting. Many criticized her for raising Rani without gender, which Kate says simply isn't what she meant. She took to Instagram to clear the air. 

"Recently someone asked me something along the lines of, if having and raising a girl is different from boys," Kate wrote on Instagram. "My response was simple. Not really. The whole click bait tactic of saying I’m raising my daughter to be ‘genderless’ is silly and frankly doesn’t even make sense."

"Me saying a ‘genderless approach’ was a way of refocusing the conversation in a direction that could exist outside of the female stereotype," she continued. "It just felt a little antiquated to me. Not all girls want to be a princess, some want to be king. And that’s fine by me."

Kate understands why some people may "want to take the headline earnestly as if I have some new age method of raising my kids I really do hate disappointing people but, I don’t." She went on to say that she just tries to "raise my kids to be good people with the best tools to face this big crazy world."

"If they grow up and identify with something different than what others want to identify them as … Mama’s cool with it!" she concluded. "I keep it simple cause we all know raising kids is anything but!"

Photo: Kate Hudson


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