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I promise this is the last pop culture post for today

By purepedantry on July 20, 2006.

Kate Hudson sues magazine for pictures that made her look too skinny:

Actress Kate Hudson accepted libel damages on Thursday from a magazine that printed a photo making her look too skinny, alongside an article that said her movie star mother Goldie Hawn wanted her to eat more.

Hudson had sued the UK Enquirer magazine over the article which appeared last October under the headline "Goldie Tells Kate: Eat Something!"

Her lawyer, Simon Smith, told Britain's High Court the story and pictures implied Hudson had "recklessly and foolishly endangered her health by deliberately starving herself."

One photograph "purported to show Ms Hudson as very frail and gaunt in appearance," he said, although the magazine had on other occasions printed photos taken weeks before and after, describing her as looking "stunning" and "great."

Can you even do that? Because if so I intend to sue basically everyone who has ever taken a picture of me for making me look like a geeky, slightly overweight slob.

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Publicity stunt.

Now I know Goldie Hawn is Kate Hudson's mother. And I didn't want to know.

I yearn for the days of CGI actors with nameless, similarly computer generated voices.