Goldie Hawn told a potentially embarrassing story at an event honoring her daughter, Kate Hudson, earlier this week. Hudson was being honored at Elle’s 17th Annual Women In Hollywood Tribute. Goldie gave a little too much information about Hudson’s birth in her speech, but it could have been worse. She explained that her daughter was feisty even in the womb and that influenced her decision to call her “Kate” instead of “Rebecca” as she planned. (I could never name a girl Rebecca after seeing that creepy Hitchcock movie!) Goldie also said that doctors thought Kate was a boy when they first got her out after the c-section but that she knew intuitively that her baby was a girl. To me Goldie’s speech is a sweet reminder of how fast time goes and how precious and unique our children are from the day they’re born. It’s also a little weird.

At ELLE’s 17th Annual Women In Hollywood Tribute Monday in Beverly Hills, Goldie Hawn honored daughter Kate Hudson.

During her introduction, she recalled Hudson’s raucous birth in 1979.

“I was on the 405, and she was inside me, and I was fooling around, and I felt really good, about 8 months [pregnant], and I was going to name her Rebecca because it was biblical and romantic and gentle. All of sudden, she punched me so hard in my you-know-where,” Hawn, 64, told the audience. “I screamed and I said, ‘Oh my God. This is a Kate, not a Rebecca!’ She is a Kate!”

On delivery day, Hawn continued, “I was lying there and they were slicing and dicing or whatever, I had a C-section, I had my nails done … and all of sudden, out she comes and they said, ‘It’s a boy!’ And I said, ‘No it’s a girl!’ And, by the way, I didn’t know what it was. I just felt that it was a girl. And then they said, ‘Oh, no it’s a girl!’ And I said, ‘What part of her anatomy were you looking at?!'”

Hawn said Hudson, now 31, was “a voracious eater. She is a voracious human being and she still likes to eat. And she is also voracious about life.

“I will say, I am very proud,” Hawn continued, looking at her daughter. “I am deeply proud of your character, and I am very proud of your tenacity. You stick to your guns … and I am proud of your talent.”

When it came time for Hudson to speak, she said she was “emotional.

“I don’t know how I am going to follow my mother!” she went on. “I have learned so much from the people that I have been blessed enough to work with, and I can’t wait for more,” she said. “I have grown up watching my parents, and I have watched them in their incredible ability and their professionalism, and their body of work is also so inspiring to me. I only hope that I can live up to that in a way, or at least try as hard as I can.”

As for being a woman in Hollywood, Hudson said no one can top her mother. “I have this stunning, iconic mother … I have a grounded, aspiring, and philanthropist mother. She is not just a talent and crazy and gorgeous and beautiful. She is truly an inspiring mother. Again, I can only hope that, as a mother, I can live up to that.”

[From US Weekly]

I don’t get the part where Goldie says she was on the highway and she was “fooling around” and felt really good when she was pregnant. It sounded at first to me like she was having sex, but that makes no sense if she was in car. She was famous back then (remember Foul Play from 1978 with Chevy Chase? I love that movie!) so maybe she was in a chauffeured car with her boyfriend in the back. I don’t want to think too much about it, but it’s probably worse for Kate.

Speaking of Kate and making out, she was spotted with her new beau, British musician Matt Bellamy, at the event. The Huffington Post has a lot of pictures of them looking super cozy there. They look very much in love and it’s sweet. Maybe Bellamy is the one for her. I was surprised by how short-looking Bellamy is! Kate is just 5′ 6″ and she was noticeably taller than him in heels.

Here’s Kate and her mom at the Elle event. I think I know why Kate looks like such a hot mess. She probably took a page from her mom’s book and had sex in the limo on the way over. That is JBF hair if I’ve ever seen it. Credit: Fame Pictures.