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Kate Hudson can't win. If she puts on some pregnancy weight, the tabloids slap her with an insensitive nickname like "Hippo Hudson," then splash fleshy, full-color portraits of the mom-to-be all over their covers. If she develops an eating disorder to quickly melt off those postpartum pounds, suddenly she's on a "dangerous diet" and cast as the Olsen twins' pro-ana sponsor. Exasperated by her glossy tormentors' Catch-22 tactics, Hudson has filed suit:

Hollywood actress Kate Hudson, star of "The Skeleton Key," instructed lawyers to begin action on Monday against several publications for printing pictures which she said falsely implied she had an eating disorder.


Hudson, daughter of actress Goldie Hawn, claims the pictures "suggested that she had an eating disorder that was so grave and serious that she was wasting away, to the extreme concern of her mother and family," her lawyers said.

The images, and the articles that accompanied them, could also prove damaging to her career as it might raise concern amongst casting agents, London law firm Schillings added.

The publications included U.S. tabloid The National Enquirer for its article last month titled "Goldie tells Kate: Eat Something! And She Listens!"

While signs do point to a recent, newly-found enthusiasm for all things edible on the part of Kate's famous mom, we have no doubt that Hudson's claims against the defendants are valid. We might take a tiny issue with her assertion that the stories could have negatively impacted her career, however. It's common Hollywood knowledge that no actress has ever lost a role for being too thin: on the contrary, even when the script calls for plus-sizes, the quickest fix has always been to cover a stick-frame in 250 pounds of lipid-latex FX.