July 11, 2006-By Jenny Peters Courtesy of Fashion Wire Daily

Check out Kate Hudson in her latest film comedy "You, Me and Dupree" (opening July 14) and you'll see an awesome scene of her in a white-hot bikini. At 27 years old, Hudson ought to still have a fantastic body, but remember, this is a woman who has a two-year-old toddler. So how did she do it?

"I want to say that it takes a lot of work!" Hudson laughed at a recent press conference in Los Angeles. "I think that one of the most important things for moms to do - and hopefully one day I will be able to write it down on a piece of paper and give it to all women who ask that question - is to take the time out of your day to do something for yourself and make yourself feel good. And part of that is the way that your body feels. Not necessarily how it looks, but how it feels. It's so important, and especially after you have a baby."

Hudson readily admits that it was not easy to get back to her slim and sexy self, however, ready to play the wife of hottie Matt Dillon in the new comedy.

"I gained seventy pounds. So I had the baby, and I've talked about this a lot - it's depressing. I was the happiest and jolliest pregnant woman and then I had the baby and then I was just fat," she remembered with a grimace.

"I was like, 'Oh my God!' I had an eight-pound, eleven-ounce baby. I came out eight pounds eleven ounces lighter. I didn't lose any weight, and then you're breast-feeding and you're starving and then you're looking at yourself in the mirror going, 'I don't feel good about myself.' That's not a good feeling for any woman and it's not about being perfect. What happens is that you then get lazy. Then all of a sudden you get down on yourself and you get a little depressed and you don't want to work the body. You don't want to do things because it's hard and it hurts. But you just have to do it.?

Hudson figured out the right regimen to get her figure back, and it included a seriously diverse set of workouts.

"It's a process and then when you finally get there you feel so good! I've never been more active in my life. It really kicked something out in me, where I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to get on the beach and I wanted to surf. I wanted to pole dance. I want to jazz dance. I got super excited. It made me realize that I love to feel active. It makes me feel good and having kids keeps you young and you want to be that kind of mom that can go out there and kick the soccer ball around with her baby. So I hope that that's the way that women look at it rather than the other way."

Yes, that was "pole dancing" that she included in her list; in fact Hudson liked that exotic exercise so much, she's made it a permanent fixture in her home with son Ryder and husband Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes rock band.

"I have a pole in my bathroom and I put in a non-permanent one and finally I was like, 'Ah, just put in a permanent one. It's not going anywhere.' It's really a blast. Every girl, I don't care how old, how sexually repressed they have to go do it. It's so much fun!"

If pole dancing works to help us all end up with the shape Kate Hudson shows off in "You, Me and Dupree," all we can say is "sign me up!"

Courtesey of Fashion Wire Daily