Los Angeles, Sep 10 (IANS): Actress Kate Hudson says she was given her first pair of high heels by her famous mother Goldie Hawn when she was all of 12.

"I must have been twelve (when I got my first pair of high heels), and it was graduation. My mum didn't let me wear heels back then, but I used to go in her closet and try hers on, of course.

"I wore a sundress that had a big skirt and it was white with little cherries on it. My mum bought me my first pair of high heels that day, they must have only been an inch or so," femalefirst.co.uk quoted Hudson as saying.

"They were bright red and she gave them to me all wrapped up. I was so happy! So my first pair of heels were bright red pumps, which I couldn't have been more excited about," she added.

Hudson is now fronting Jimmy Choo's autumn/winter 2015 ballet-inspired campaign, which is something close to her heart.

"I grew up dancing. My mum put me in dance classes since I was three years old and I did ballet up until 12 before she allowed me to take more types of dance, like lyrical," she said.