Kate Hudson and Lance Armstrong in Cannes on May 25, 2008
In Touch has a new story that claims that Kate Hudson, 29, has already told her new boyfriend, athlete Lance Armstrong, 36, that she loves him. They don’t specify whether Lance said it back, but claim to have a witness who heard her say “I love you Lance” several times. They also say that Lance and Kate are talking marriage and that it’s the “real thing” for both of them.
There’s an inset story beneath that one that details Kate’s dating history and the way that she falls head over heels for boyfriends quickly. This was more interesting to me, because I have girlfriends who jump into relationships too soon and I have to admit to being foolish in love at times too:
Moving in After 4 Days [ex husband Chris Robinson]
Days after their first date in May 2000, Kate moved in with Chris Robinson. “We knew we were in love after four days,” she says. They wed seven months later.Dating after 1 week [Owen Wilson]
One week after her separation from Chris was confirmed, rumors flew that Kate was already dating her You, Me and Dupree co-star Owen WilsonVacationing after 2 weeks [Dax Shephard]
Two weeks after she was first seen with comedian Dax Shepard, Kate invited him to take a vacation with her to Canada to meet her entire extended family.Meeting kids after 1 date [Lance Armstrong]
Lance and Kate were first spotted at a Kid Rock concert after-party in NYC on May 15. She flew with him to Austin, TX, the next day and met his children.
[From In Touch, print edition, July 7, 2008]
The accompanying article warns that the danger with falling in love too quickly is that you can just as easily sour on a person and ditch the relationship the minute you get a taste of reality. It also can be hard on your kids if you’re a single mom and bring too many men into their lives. In Touch quotes “relationship expert” Dr. Gilda Carle who says “Her son gets attached to her various partners, but when it’s over, Ryder may become disappointed and confused.”
That could be true, but we don’t know how many men she’s dated who have played a significant role in his life. There are three that I can think of since she split with her husband. Certainly you should be careful not to bring a lot of men around or make them seem like replacement daddies, but kids are resilient and I see Kate as dating until she finds the right man, not sleeping around.
It does sound like Kate moves too fast, but it seems more like she falls quickly and just goes with it. In Touch includes a quote she gave to Cosmopolitan in 2005, when she was still married, to suggest that she may be fickle in relationships. She said “If for some reason it’s over, why would you spend five years of your life trying to make it work when you can spend those five years being friends and finding someone else?” She probably already knew her marriage was over at that point, and it’s possible she didn’t move on to Wilson that quickly after it ended, and just waited to announce her separation.
If anything Kate sounds guilty of the same thing a lot of do when we find a great new man – we think he’s the one and start to revolve our lives around him. It’s better to step back a little, get your head together, and focus on your friends and interests for a while so that you can make a better decision about who you want to commit to – for now.
Kate Hudson and Lance Armstrong are shown in Cannes on May 25, 2008, thanks to Splash.
She’s gonna get burned on this one. Watch and see.
I agree. She get’s dumped by this player within a year.
Not fast if you’re a slut.
She could have ten guys in ten days and it wouldn’t gross me out at all.
Life’s short, why not have all the fun you can get.
But Lance Armstrong!? 🙄
What’s with the big sweater? Her face is looking mysteriously puffy in that second picture.
I’m ambivalent about Kate but I must admit to loving how she looks quite stupid and unphotogenic in this picture. Admittedly, this is the kind of unflattering facial expression the paps would get of me if I was famous 🙂
Yeah, I saw that too Tammy. She’s looking a little like Drew Scareymore. As Far as Lance goes the clock is ticking on this relationship,,,he’s the 1 nut slut after all.
I once read an article about getting married and divorced in Hollywood. It said ALL celebrity relationships move quickly because they already know each other (or feel like they do) because they can read about each other in magazines and the internet, see each other on tv and movies, and hear about them through friends.
As normal people, we really only have that last one to go on. We’re starting from scratch when we meet someone new.
Wow is Lance Armstrong really only 36? What I find more funny than the falling in love quickly aspect is that it’s so interbred! Aren’t Lance and Kate Hudson’s ex Owen Wilson like best friends? (Or ex-best-friends?) So Kate must have known Lance for some time, and now suddenly she’s in love with him? Hmm. Seems very silly to me. I feel sorry for Owen Wilson.
I agree its hard on the kids. It will create real trust issues with them. She does go through men like underwear and they are always hovering around her kid.
I get the feeling she’s one of those women who has no identity outside of the man she’s with, and she feels like she has to always have a man in her life. That could be why she leaps from one to another, falling in love, letting them hang out with her kid, then dumping/being dumped and leaping to the next man. I think the leaping pickings must not be too good lately, because Lance Armstrong never had an attractive day in his life.
I never cared for Hudson or her films (beyond Almost Famous, naturally), but I’ve started liking her more post-divorce. She seems stronger, less like a goody-two-shoes. More complicated, I guess. I doubt this thing with Lance will last long, and I bet both know it.
And I doubt it’s messing up her son. He already has a father – it’s not like Kate is introducing each new boyfriend to her son saying, “Here’s your new daddy!”
why is everyone worried about kate’s parenting skills and not lance’s? at least we see photos of her with her kid – i’ve seen like 1 photo of him with his. and if she is a slut then he is a man-slut…after all, he cheated on his wife with sheryl crow. they seem like an odd pair, though and i must say i do not get his appeal at all.
I noticed she looks a little swollen too. I hope she’s not pregnant with his spawn. Though I guess that wouldn’t surprise me. A shotgun wedding wouldn’t surprise me either.
I thought I was the only one bothered with the speed with which she moves from one man to another. Not even three weeks ago she was vacationing with Owen Wilson. I know this is hollywood but she seems a bit reckless. She is always kissing a different man or hanging out with one with her son. She seems rather emotionally shallow.
It is her life and life is too short to have regrets. I hope she doesn’t get burned.
I think they both are fickle and one of them will end up burned when this ends, also they both have kids who are affected by their breakups.
Oh he’ll say it right back no problem, does not mean a thing for him anyway.
Who knows, he’ll let his girls get fitted for bridesmaids dresses again before he dumps her. That’s what he did when his children grew to love Sheryl.
These kids are going to end up so twisted. She knows what she’s getting into, but those kids are innocent. Well they would be if their parents let them.
She looks great on camera but nothing special irl…or pap shots. So I guess that is what matters.
I’m surprised no one has reported on how Owen is taking this.He’s been in hiding lately it seems. Maybe he’s working on a project but I feel for him now..I know Lance was one of his best friends. Did he drift away from him before Kate went for Lance? Regardless I hope he’s strong and will never revisit the place he was in a year or so ago.
She seems totally weaker since the divorce. She’s been single all of 5 minutes since then and is going straight from one man to the next. It’s pathetic and pitiful. How about you spend some quality time with your kid and be by yourself for a while before you go jumping from bed to bed. Ryder is going to be the one to suffer the most from this. Learn how to love yourself, by yourself, before you can love someone else!
All this just makes her look desperate for a man!
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww i cannot believe that lance would stoop so low. who else in hollywood has not slept with miss kate? cannot be many left
seriously don? Kate is worse than Lance, seriously? This is what you really truly think?
What makes you thinks this? Is it because she dumped her spouse for a younger, hotter celeb after multiple children and staying with them through testicular cancer? Or maybe that time when she hooked up with someone 15 years younger…oh wait, none of those were Kate…weird.
People are always ragging on her and saying she’s a huge slutbag, I don’t see this. She’s young, happy, loves her child, and deserves to be in a loving relationship if she chooses. I also agree with an earlier poster, she’s not introducing these dudes as his new dad, he has a dad. Get real people, she’s allowed to date, even if it is a giant jerkass like Lance Armstrong. pfff… Live Strong, my ass.
When you’re in love and that love breaks up, the LAST thing you want is another relationship. Unless it’s superficial. Why on earth would you let someone else have access to your heart until it’s been healed from the break up?
Something is not right here.
She appears to not be able to be alone. She admitted to being involved with Owen Wilson even before she announced her separation from Chris Robinson, so it sounds like she made sure she had someone else before she moved on. Both these people seem to be serial daters. Actually at least three of them are.
Lookwise, she depends on hair color. If you just see the face, you wouldn’t trade.
➡ Owen and Lance are NOT best friends. That’s a common misconception. Lance filmed one scene in a movie with him – that’s about it. Lance and Matt Mc. ARE good friends and Matt set Lance up with Kate to help her get over Owen. Owen isn’t the innocent, injured party in this. Kate loves him and gave him an opportunity to clean himself up and then gave him another chance. Owen went right back to using drugs and to womanizing. I’m glad that Kate has moved on. It’s sad but true – sometimes love is not enough. If Owen wants to find true love and a meaningful, adult relationship, he needs to commit to some SERIOUS therapy and drug counseling. Staying in his current arrested state of development doesn’t seem to be making him happy…
Oh Hello…a slut Mr T? I don’t think so. She’s young AND single, let her date all she wants. After my marriage fell over 7 years ago I did a lot of dating and a fair bit of concurrent bonking, does that make me a slut? Ummm…no its a free world that is why there are condoms…but then again I’m not an American…different social context.
And you do do a lot of re-defining of your identity after your marriage ends, its not an easy time. I know I did. I wasn’t seeking to find myself in a guy but rather to find out who I was becoming after a marriage of some length (16 years) that began at a young age.
Funny that, my new husband of four months said one of things he was most attracted to in me was that I know exactly who I am and I am myself always no matter who I’m with or where I am. Pretty kick ass compliment I reckon…and I’ll own that thanks. Took a lot to get here. Having said that I can also be an autocratic bitch 😈
I’m remarried now and happy, do I regret anything? No. I say “Give’er girlfriend” to Kate. You learn a lot, and isn’ that the entire point of living? May not be the way other’s choose to live their lives but that’s why its called “free will”