PHOTO! Here’s the cover picture of Kate Hudson, stunning for ELLE February 2009. Hudson dishes to ELLE to promote Bride Wars dropping January 9.

Hudson says about paparazzi:

“They’ve become an entity to themselves… But eventually they’ll implode. They’re creating a house of cards that will inevitably fall. These are not nice people. When you’re taking your child to school, and they’re trying to get on school property to get a picture, it literally makes you want to just smack them.”

She says on acting:

“I could be in an interview and people would keep going, ‘So why do you always do romantic comedies?’ Do I want to do darker roles? Of course. It has to be the right thing, though.”

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