
Kate Hudson's Baby Will Be Poster Child for Unplanned Pregnancy

So much baby news to celebrate this season, the latest of which is from the camp of
Kate Hudson, where a source confirmed to Us Weekly magazine that
Hudson is currently 14 weeks pregnant with boyfriend Matthew Bellamy's baby. Now for this story to hold enough water for Us to publish it, we know this "source" comes from inside Kate's personal camp, probably a publicist or an agent, or perhaps Kate herself. What we're unsure of is why this source opted to reveal the very person detail that this baby was "unplanned," a nice way of saying, "an accident." That's certainly not something most mothers would want living on the Internet in perpetuity about their spawn.
"I was shocked that Kate shared that information. I think she's been watching too much 'Jersey Shore,'" said our own
Naughty But Nice columnist Rob Shuter, who after working in magazines for years was still surprised at the language used by camp Hudson this time around.
Whether or not Hudson and Bellamy stay together, their offspring will always be able to go to Google to find out the pair wasn't practicing safe sex in the fall of 2010.
"Celebrity parents seem to forget that things they say now will be available on the Internet for their kids to read in 16 years. I hope Kate's son or daughter doesn't resent knowing that they were an accident," says
The Gloss Editor-in-Chief Lilit Marcus.
Someone needs to give the Hudson source a lesson in Word Choice 101. It is something that matters as this becomes the baby bump viewed round the world.
"Lets be clear: Unwanted and unplanned are two different things," explains "Cult of Celebrity" author and psychology expert
Cooper Lawrence. "Research on the development of children who were unplanned suggests that it is only a problem for the mother who may not be able to adequately care for a child. But I am guessing that Kate Hudson can provide adequate care."
The bigger issue, Lawrence says, is that we, the public, know about this, and it could be the media who blurs the line between unwanted and unplanned.
"That is where Kate may have made her errors," Lawrence tells us.
This child will obviously be very privileged and will have two loving parents so this little accidental, unplanned semantic slip will probably have no adverse effect on baby Hudson-Bellamy. Let's just hope the parents don't keep this issue of
Us Weekly for posterity.
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What's with all the nasty Kate stories?
Owen Wilson knocked up some starstuck nobody, kept it hidden until he was going to get caught and suddenly he's a saint but Kate is awful?
Is AOL on Wilson's payroll or something?
Leave Kate alone and stop praising Wilson already!!
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Good grief people lighten up! I wonder how many pregnancies out there are actually planned! My children are 15 months apart...not planned! I nick-named my little one Hanna Boo Boo Quita...Quita...after the Chiquita Banana...rhymes with Hanna..Boo Boo...because I thought she should know the truth up front...she is 3,she can handle it!
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Oh please! Thousands of us were "unplanned" pre-pill babies. In college we used to wondering if any of us were planned. It isn't the end of the world.
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