The bright, young and lovely Kate Hudson will not be held down. You won’t find her drowning her sorrows or cocooning with an industrial-size vat of ice cream and a Yoo-hoo chaser. Or even a Vicodin nightcap.

No! Beautiful Kate puts on a bikini, gets right back on the hot-famous-guy horse (or his-and-hers bikes) and tries, tries again.

And, good for her. Dax Shepard, her latest squeeze, is pretty hot. Maybe even hotter than Owen Wilson, though the Butterscotch Stallion has his own…er…unique charm.

She was recently seen frolicking with Shepard near her family’s vacation home and has apparently introduced him to the ’rents and to her daughter…we mean, son, Ryder. So, it could be an actual "relationship."

To think that for all those years while she was with the scraggly and rarely showered Chris Robinson, we really thought she liked her men on the homely side.

Way to surprise us, Kate!