Hollywood actress Kate Hudson has launched legal action in the UK over photographs she says wrongly portrayed her as suffering from an eating disorder.
Ms Hudson, daughter of Goldie Hawn, instructed London law firm Schillings to act over the "misleading" images of her.
Schillings said they had been instructed by the star "to make legal complaint of those who took and published images of her which circulated widely and prominently in September and October".
The images were "used to accompany and illustrate articles which suggested that she had an eating disorder that was so grave and serious that she was wasting away to the extreme concern of her mother and family, and although not stated, of commercial and artistic concern to those who might cast her in movies and choose to use her image to endorse products".
Ms Hudson will argue in court that the images gave a "seriously false and misleading impression as to her true physical condition, in that she was portrayed as being dangerously thin with an eating disorder, which is contrary to the true position of her weight and diet being of a healthy nature, both at the time of the images being taken and at present".
An analysis of how the photographs came to be taken, sold and published will form a key aspect to the proceedings, which are expected to be heard at the High Court in London next year.
Ms Hudson, daughter of Goldie Hawn, instructed London law firm Schillings to act over the "misleading" images of her.
Schillings said they had been instructed by the star "to make legal complaint of those who took and published images of her which circulated widely and prominently in September and October".
The images were "used to accompany and illustrate articles which suggested that she had an eating disorder that was so grave and serious that she was wasting away to the extreme concern of her mother and family, and although not stated, of commercial and artistic concern to those who might cast her in movies and choose to use her image to endorse products".
Ms Hudson will argue in court that the images gave a "seriously false and misleading impression as to her true physical condition, in that she was portrayed as being dangerously thin with an eating disorder, which is contrary to the true position of her weight and diet being of a healthy nature, both at the time of the images being taken and at present".
An analysis of how the photographs came to be taken, sold and published will form a key aspect to the proceedings, which are expected to be heard at the High Court in London next year.
