Who needs a man? Not me

Kate Hudson talks about divorce, the perils of dating and how she's stayed strong

Reproduced from May 08 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. This month's issue on sale now.

'They are so not my boobs,' laughs Kate Hudson, pointing at the poster for her latest film, Fool's Gold. 'They look too perfect. Seriously, if I ever wanted to have them done I'd take this poster to the doctor and say, 'This is what I want them to look like.''

We're sitting in a suite in London's A-list Dorchester Hotel discussing the merits of airbrushing - not that Kate needs it. Wearing a skintight turquoise Burberry dress and sky-high Louboutins, the 28-year-old looks amazing - and it's only just past noon.

Of course, in terms of media training, she's been there, done that, got the T-shirt. As the daughter of veteran actors Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell (her biological father is Bill Hudson, but she's always called Kurt 'Pa'), Kate has grown up as a part of Hollywood royalty. While we remember feeding the ducks in our childhoods, she recalls being taught to cartwheel by ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Warren Beatty dropping by for coffee.

Today, the world according to Kate is this: judge me on my films, not my men. Now a bona fide leading lady in her own right, she's the antidote to the young Hollywood of Paris Hiltons who'd do just about anything to get their picture in the papers. In fact, Kate would do anything to get hers out.

After one hell of a 2007, which saw her getting divorced from her husband of seven years, Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson, 41 - who is also father of her four-year-old son Ryder - and being put under scrutiny after Owen Wilson's widely reported suicide attempt in August (the two had enjoyed a nine-month romance until that June), she's finally emerged on them other side. And guess what? This year she's stronger and sexier than before, despite her rekindled friendship with Owen being the talk of the tabloids. So how's she done it? Read on to find out...