Kate Hudson is People's Most Beautiful Person

BY CORRIS LITTLE | Newsday.com

11:06 AM EDT, April 30, 2008

Actress Kate Hudson arrives at the UK premiere of 'Fools Gold' at the Vue cinema, Leicester Square on April 10, 2008 in London, England. The actress has been named 'most beautiful' by People magazine. (Getty Images/Dave Hogan)

As if we didn't already know she's gorgeous, actress Kate Hudson has been crowned 'most beautiful' by People magazine, according to People.com. Hudson, 29, also graces the cover of People's 100 Most Beautiful People, which hits newsstands Friday.

In this special issue, the single mother of son Ryder, admits she wasn't always a hot chick, "I was a tomboy. I had three brothers. I was the girl with the dress on that always came back in the house filthy with scrapes and bruises. But I was always very girly. I had to be able to twirl so that my underwear showed."

What's her best look? It's "at the end of the night, when everything's soaked in and I'm still up. I like the leftover makeup in the morning. You've got to wash your face but there's always the leftover eye makeup, I love that."

Kate Hudson also dishes the dirt about her favorite body part, getting her sexy bod back after shedding all that baby weight, and her troubled pal Owen Wilson, with whom she's been romantically linked.

Celebrity moms are bringing sexy back in a big way. Other hot mamas topping the People's 100 Most Beautiful list: Salma Hayek, Mary J. Blige, Julianne Moore and Jessica Alba, to name a few.