Meredith Hagner shared footage on Instagram on May 22 showing a makeover her sons Buddy and Boone gave her — her face decorated with colorful facepaint — and Goldie Hawn replied, "Hahahaha. I love you so much!!!!"
In the video Hagner quipped, "It's not the look I was going for. I was thinking more of a natural look." The clip landed as a small domestic moment in a family that has been reshaped by upheaval: Hagner and her husband, Wyatt Russell, who married in 2019, are parents to two sons born in 2021 and 2022, and the family relocated to Aspen from Los Angeles in January 2025 after the Los Angeles wildfires seriously damaged their home.
The move has also brought the family physically closer to Hagner’s in-laws. Kurt Russell said, "What I enjoy most is that [Goldie] really likes it in Colorado. Wyatt and Meredith, and their two boys, they live in Colorado now. So we like to spend as much time there as we can," and added, "I'd like to be there more, and there's a different kind of life there. That's primarily it. I'd like to be able to spend as much time there as possible."
Hagner has been plainspoken about the benefits. "Oh they're the best. They're just, like, the greatest people, greatest grandparents," she said, noting that Goldie Hawn and Russell "live down the road from us, so my son is like — that's their second home. They'll have a cookie jar that's always full, and my son knows where it is, and they have a toy box that is always brimming with toys." The couple join their four adult children in a family that now includes eight grandchildren.
Those domestic details sit alongside Hawn's public statements about family and values. She has said, "My life's mission is to be happy. My life's mission is to be an example for my children and my family," adding, "Wherever they are, I'm happy." On passing values she has said, "You've got to work for a living, stay compassionate and stay realistic and I'm passing that on because that was what my father taught me: 'Stay in reality. Don't get taken away with everything,'" and, "The rest of it is up to them. Being there for them and knowing that they're going to have to work stuff out themselves, as hard as it is."
The friction in this everyday snapshot is quiet but real: public figures who have long offered broad advice about staying grounded are also, by Hagner’s account, the very grandparents who keep cookie jars full and toy boxes brimming. "The thing that always struck me about meeting them is just how normal they are, like you forget within five seconds [how famous they are]," Hagner said, and the Instagram exchange makes that normalness visible — a grandmother laughing at a child-decorated face, a mother making a wry aside, a family resettled together after a crisis.
Taken together, the video and the responses from Hagner, Russell and Hawn do more than amuse: they confirm that the extended family has settled into a close, local life in Colorado. Hawn’s quick reply and her public insistence that her mission is to be happy and to model a practical, compassionate life make clear which of the possible narratives fits best — these are grandparents who are nearby and involved, not distant celebrities. That, for this family, is the point.
