"With the humor and generosity that are familiar to everyone, Goldie Hawn talks about the lessons she's learned, and the wisdom she feels she's been given, in the hope of giving something back. Not a Hollywood tell-all, A Lotus Grows in the Mud is rather a very personal look at moments both private and powerful and the ways these moments have helped carry her through life: the delight in her father's spirited spontaneity; the confidence instilled by her mother's courage; the unexpected gifts of comfort from strangers miles from home; and the joy of being a daughter, a sister, a parent and a lover." "Goldie describes her growing up in suburbia with dreams of becoming a ballerina, her go-go dancing years in 1960s New York, her success on TV's Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, and Hollywood stardom in such films as the Oscar-winning Cactus Flower, and Swing Shift and Private Benjamin. She writes intimately about the challenges of love, anger and fear, and the vital importance of compassion and integrity; about her partner, Kurt Russell; her children, Kate Hudson, Oliver Hudson, Wyatt Russell and Boston Russell; about her growing faith, her curiosity about what she doesn't know and her unquenchable thirst for knowledge and understanding."--BOOK JACKET.