Today Kate Winslet is Kate Winsletshe can afford to say no, to criticize the system and see its quotation marks translated into every known language, to be able to sue a magazine for using photoshop in a photo of her on the cover and to shoot her first film as a director “to change Hollywood” as a “necessary act for me and other women”. To get to Eden, the English actress received many doors in her face and swallowed several bitter pills but always with the belief that sooner or later she would be able to change the cards on the table and reverse the toxic narrative. Champion of women and in the front row against the body shamingWinslet recalled her early days in Hollywood, including an unhappy comment from a drama teacher who once told her that because of her shape, she would have to settle for only play “fat girl parts”.
Host of the BBC Radio 4 programme, Desert Island Discs, Kate Winslet recalled the difficulties she immediately encountered in showbizmany of which are linked to his image. “I was a bit pudgy, when I started taking everything a lot more seriously, and I got a children’s agent,” she explained, “I vividly remember a drama teacher saying to me, ‘Well, darling, you’ll have a career if you’re prepared to settle for fat girl parts.’”
“Look at me now,” she continued, “It’s scary what people say to kids.” An episode that profoundly affected Winslet, and which he spoke about just a year ago, during an interview with 60 Minutes. “My drama teacher told me that if I didn’t do something to change my appearance I would only get ‘fat girl roles,’” she said at the time, later focusing on the received criticism in the media afterwards Titanic. At the time 22 years old with an Oscar nomination on her CV and her first role in a cult film, the actress born in 1975 found herself on the front pages of all the newspapers, including not too veiled criticism for her body “not conforming” to Hollywood standards.
Attacks that were commonplace at the time, like when on the red carpet of the 1998 Golden Globes she was joined by a correspondent on the red carpet who defined her as “loose and tight” and with a dress that was too tight for her shape. “It was absolutely appalling. What kind of person do you have to be to do that to a young actress who’s just trying to figure it out?” Kate recalled, “I let him do it, but then I said, ‘I hope this haunts you’. It was a great moment. It was a great moment because it wasn’t just for me. It was for all those people who were subjected to that level of harassment. It was horrible, it was really bad.”
Kate Winslet on surgery and drugs to lose weight
Earlier this month in a lengthy interview with the Sunday TimesWinslet publicly criticized the popularity of weight loss drugsincreasingly popular in the entertainment world. “It’s devastating. If a person’s self-worth is so tied to their physical appearance, it’s scary,” he said. “Some people choose to be themselves, some go out of their way to not be themselves. And do they know what they’re putting into it? The lack of respect for health is appalling. It bothers me now more than ever. It’s f—ing chaos out there.”
In the same interview, Winslet said she has not undergone any cosmetic surgery. “My favorite thing is when my hands get older,” she told the publication. “It’s life, in your hands. Some of the most beautiful women I know are over 70 and what shocks me is that young women have no idea what it means to be beautiful.”
Kate Winslet’s fight against body shaming
“They kept telling me I had the wrong body shape,” Kate told Vogue in 2023 in one of the many quotes about body shaming suffered, “they constantly told me that I should settle for less. When I was younger, my agent received calls like: “How’s your weight?”. And no, I’m not joking”. A battle that Kate has carried on over the years and which she is still championing today. “It’s interesting how much people like labels for women,” she said BBC“and they loved them a lot in Lee’s time and, what’s terrible, in a way they still do: we put labels on women that we just don’t have on men. To me, it’s absolutely bizarre.”
Kate Winslet suffered from an eating disorder after Titanic
Sharp and unflattering comments on her shape which undermined her confidence, rediscovered over the years with the support of specialists, and left a scar on her mental and physical health. Speaking with the The New York TimesWinslet confessed to having suffered from eating disorders in the years following the success of Titanic. “I never told anyone”, his words “because, try to imagine, everyone told me ‘how well you look! You’ve lost weight!’, they complimented me, but always related to my weight and I didn’t know how to say it”.
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