Kate Hudson turned to Jessica Alba for business advice

Kate Hudson revealed she turned to fellow Hollywood starlet Jessica Alba for business advice with her athleisure company Fabletics.
The actress and mother-of-two founded the firm back in 2013, which enables customers to subscribe to a monthly delivery of fashionable sportswear. In just four years, Fabletics has brought in around $250 million (£190 million) in revenue, and Hudson explained how she dealt with the huge success by asking for advice from her friend and fellow businesswoman Alba.
“Jessica (Alba) and I actually – it’s really funny because we both had success in brands really fast and have this big learning curve,” she said of the Honest founder at the Fast Company Innovation Festival. “So it’s nice to be able to talk to someone who is sort of understanding the ins and outs of being a part of a company that has grown.”
Fabletics also launched a menswear line in 2015 with Kate’s actor brother Oliver Hudson, and in May (17) she collaborated with Demi Lovato for a special line in support of the United Nations Foundation’s Girl Up campaign.
Hudson also turns to her step-father Kurt Russell for advice, and added: “Kurt is someone that I like to go to to talk about a lot of different things when it comes to business.”
During the interview with CNBC, the 38-year-old star gave her take on the Harvey Weinstein scandal, and was proud of her friends who have come forward to accuse the movie producer of sexual assault.
“I personally am so grateful for a lot of my friends who’ve come forward because I think that that really makes other women feel that their voice will be heard. There’s Harvey, and then there’s so many men over many different fields,” Hudson said.
She added: “Women need to feel that they can come out and talk about things that are inappropriate. We’ve long been kind of shushed, the fear with coming forward with something like that is enormous for a woman because it could mean their career, it could mean everything that they’ve ever worked hard for. Harvey is not the only one, unfortunately, and it’s just created a climate for – I think – real change.”