American actress Kate Hudson, 38, revealed in a video on Instagram that she and her boyfriend Danny Fujikawa are expecting their first child together and Hudson’s third total – a baby girl.

She added a lengthy caption to the video, explaining her absence from social media: “SURPRISE!!! If you’ve wondered why I’ve been so absent on my social channels it’s because I have never been more sick! It’s was the most sick first trimester of all my children. Boomerangs have made me nauseous, Superzoom is an easy way to have my head in the toilet, food instagrams make me queezy and thinking too much about insta stories made me even more exhausted than I already had been. If you’ve seen me out and about smiling and pretending like everything is amazing…I was lying!”

She added: “We have been trying to keep this pregnancy under the radar for as long as possible but I’m a poppin now! And it’s too darn challenging to hide, and frankly hiding is more exhausting then just coming out with it! My kids, Danny, myself and the entire family are crazy excited! A little girl on the way.”

Hudson has two sons from two previous relationships.

Fourteen-year-old Ryder Russell Robinson is the son of Hudson and Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson. Six-year-old Bingham Hawn Bellamy is the son of Hudson and Muse frontman Matt Bellamy.

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