Topping the list of People’s 100 Most Beautiful People is a 29-year-old mother remarkably short on her beauty sleep – for which she lovingly credits her active 4-year-old son, Ryder.

A sleep deprived mother is the most beautiful person? What a fresh breath of normalcy. I love it!

We know Kate comes from a gorgeous Hollywood family, but was she always such a head-turner? Admits the actress:

“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.”

Her best time for looking good, she says, comes “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.”

I’m reallying starting to like Kate Hudson a lot more. The woman likes leftover makeup in the morning! That’s right up my alley, Kate. Looks like we have more in common than I thought. Now I just need to date Owen Wilson and that would make two things we share!

For other aspects to Hudson – including her favorite body part, losing her pregnancy weight and what she has to say about Owen Wilson (what is their relationship really like)– as well as the other 99 beautiful people who made this year’s cut, pick up the new issue of People, on newsstands this Friday.