Like daughter, like mother

AS THESE pictures of. actress Kate Hudson, 37, eight months’ pregnant with son Bingham in 2011, and her mother Goldie Hawn, pregnant on her wedding day in 1976, show, a woman’s bump can have a lot to do with her family tree.

The rounded curve of the stomach, the even weight gain across the face and bust, the rosy glow and beaming smile — the two, photographed nearly four decades apart, look remarkably similar. So is it a case of like mother, like daughter?

Sarah Fox says there’s no scientific evidence of a genetic link between bumps.

‘The shape and size of a bump isn’t something carried across generations — but there are reasons it might look the same,’ she explains. ‘A woman often has the same build and figure as her mother, and her lifestyle may be similar, so there’s a reason their bodies change in the same way.’