Though they had children from previous marriages, they blended beautifully into one family.
Before Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell became a couple, the two of them were married to other people. They both have children from their previous marriages, too.
Goldie Hawn welcomed her children Kate and Oliver Hudson with her then-husband, Bill Hudson. Kurt Russell welcomed his son, Boston Russell, with his then-wife, Season Hubley. The two, who met first on the set of The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band in 1966, didn't start dating until 1983, when they began working on Swing Shift, their second film together, according to US Weekly.
Soon after becoming a couple, the two wanted to welcome a child of their own, and in 1986, they welcomed their only son together, Wyatt Russell.
However, since Hawn and Russell started dating, both families have blended effortlessly, into one big gang. In no time, Russell became the father figure that Oliver and Kate needed in their lives.
Honestly, it is hard for kids to accept a new parental figure in their life, but Kate knew that she could always count on Russell. “For me, it felt like such a big moment because it was like, ‘My mom is madly in love with this guy.’ For me, at the time, it was like, ‘Is this going to be my dad?’” the Almost Famous actress shared during an episode of her podcast Sibling Revelry, according to Closer Weekly. “And I was meeting his son [Boston] which meant, ‘Does this mean that this is my brother?’ It was a lot to handle at such a young age.”
“Kurt has always been close to Kate and [has] seen her as his own daughter,” a source even shared.
Russell soon took on the role of a father quite seriously, and he was considered to be the strict one, while Hawn was a lot more laidback, Kate revealed. "Kurt was pretty strict," Kate revealed to Hello Magazine.
She then shared that she adopted the same approach to parenting her three children, Ryder, 18, Bingham, 10, and Rani, 3. She joked that she was "definitely stricter than Oliver Hudson."
However, Hawn and Russel have been nothing but wonderful parents to their kids and have set an example for them.
“You’re creating one, two, three new people. You have a tremendous influence on these human beings,” Hawn explained to Today in 2015. “And these are people that you want, and hopefully will contribute in some way, and put some of the love back in the earth.”
“This is what we do,” she continued. “This is what our job is as mothers. We create a good little soul and he or she will pass that on to his or her friends and make an influence. And that’s one way we can help make this world a better place.”
She also spoke about how proud she is of her children. “Kurt and I are so proud,” the doting mom revealed. “They’re mirroring a lot of the way they were raised, and that just shows you how important it is to raise your kids well, ’cause they will raise their kids well.”
These two really know how to parent their kids, right?
References:
https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/goldie-hawn-and-kurt-russells-cutest-quotes-about-being-parents/
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