Actress and mother Kate Hudson was honored with the Role Model award at the PEOPLE Magazine Awards on Thursday night. “This is a beautiful honor,” said Hudson, 35, as she accepted the accolade.

Kate Hudson’s resume is notably eclectic, perhaps because the actress says she has never been very calculated about her career. If a role or a film felt right, she did it.

Hollywood could use more Kate Hudsons, because while she's long been tearing it up in the acting and style world, she's also killing it in the role model world — and that's just as deserving of ...

Hudson started by saying that when she learned she was getting the award, she did a little research as to what a "role model" is. The results terrified her, as I'm sure they were very aspirational.