LOS ANGELES, May 10, 2005/ FW/ --- Before she became ‘the mother of Kate Hudson,’ Goldie Hawn was already a household name, thanks for her memorable performances in a wide variety of hit motion pictures-including Cactus Flower, Butterflies Are Free, Shampoo, Foul Play, Private Benjamin, Overboard, The First Wives Club and The Banger Sisters -not to mention her unforgettable three-year run on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.

An Academy Award winning actress, Goldie Hawn is one of the most recognizable faces in Hollywood and also one of the most loved by the movie-going public.

And, with her new book, ‘A Lotus Grows In The Mud,’ the American public will fall in love with her all over again as she shares a very personal look at moments both private and powerful and the ways these moments have helped carry her through life.

Speaking from the heart about the people, places and events that have touched her life, ‘A Lotus Grows In The Mud,’ is a highly personal story of family, faith and the challenges of show business.

Written not as a memoir, but rather Goldie Hawn tells the readers about the wisdom she feels she had been given and the lessons she has learned on her life’s journey, in the hope of giving something back.

"Each of us goes through transitions and transformations," writes Hawn. "The important thing is that we acknowledge them and learn from them. That is the idea behind this book. Not to tell my life story, but to speak openly and from the heart about episodes in my life in the hope of explaining how they changed my perception and how they helped me to look at the world more clearly."

Goldie Hawn writes about her younger self, relates her early years in New York as an actress until she gets casted in Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.

She talks about working with Hollywood’s leading stars including Walter Matthau, Ingrid Berman and Peter Sellers and her winning the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her feature film debut, ‘Cactus Flower,’ an event she describes as both scary and surreal.

She also writes about her relationship with longtime partner Kurt Russell and her relationship with her children (actress Kate Hudson, Oliver Hudson, Wyatt Russell and her stepson, Boston) and what it has felt like as they have moved on to new phases of their own lives leaving behind an increasingly empty nest for her and Kurt.

Revealing her skills as a born storyteller, Goldie talks about everything from anger and fear, to love and compassion, friendship and fate, the importance of family, the challenges of show business, the unexpected gifts of comfort from strangers many miles from home, her own spiritual journey in search of enlightenment, and the joys of being a mother, a daughter, a sister, a lover and a parent.

A LOTUS GROWS IN THE MUD is a story of the author's growing faith, of her curiosity for that which is yet unknown, and of her unquenchable thirst for knowledge and understanding. Above all, it is a trip back through a life well lived by a woman well loved.