Kate Hudson Shares What She Teaches Her Kids About Fitness: ‘It’s Not Taught. It’s Caught’ (Exclusive)

Kate Hudson works to keep her family in top shape.

While speaking exclusively with PEOPLE about her new partnership with MyFitnessPal, a health and fitness tracker, the actress, 44, also talks about teaching her three children — daughter Rani Rose, 5, and sons Bingham “Bing” Hawn, 12, and Ryder Robinson, 20 — about fitness.

Noting that a healthy lifestyle “isn’t taught, it’s caught,” Hudson says, “Rani keeps coming to my workouts, and it’s so amazing.”

“But,” she continues. “I don’t force it on my kids. They want to be a part of it. They see me and my coach [Brian Nguyen] working hard and swearing at each other and sweating. It’s fun.”

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Kate Hudson with her three children.

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Kate Hudson on the importance of having dinner with her kids: ‘I’m really busy, but my day is done at 5’ (Exclusive)

Hudson — who shares Rani with fiancé Danny Fujikawa, Bingham with ex-fiancé Matt Bellamy and Ryder with ex-husband Chris Robinson — says it’s very important to her to make sure she’s there for her three children at the end of each day.

“I’m busy, I am really busy, but my day is done at 5:00 p.m., and I’m in that kitchen making something for them,” Hudson says of her children.

Still, Almost famous the star says that due to her busy lifestyle, it is sometimes difficult for her to always spend time with her children.

“It’s hard to get it together when you’re a working mother, and it was especially hard when I was a single mother,” she explains.

Kate Hudson. Arturo Holmes/Getty Kate Hudson’s three children: All about Ryder, Bingham and Rana

According to Hudson, she makes sure her kids also have a healthy relationship with food and often invites them to be around while preparing dinner.

“My kids’ relationship with food is healthy because I bring them into the kitchen,” she tells PEOPLE. “I make them chop with me, we talk about what herbs are.”

“I think it’s important to really involve your kids in the things you’re doing,” Hudson continues.

The mother of three adds: “There is no cook in my house.”

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