Kate Winslet: "Weight obsession is my fault"

[BadCoverVersion]

From ITV.COM (http://www.itv.com/news/1528164.html)

Actress Kate Winslet has admitted she is to blame for sparking the media obsession with her weight.

The Iris star said she first raised the issue of her size with journalists.

"The reality is, maybe all this focus on me and my figure ... is my own fault," she told a US newspaper.

Kate, 27, said she realised the pressures on actresses to be slim while filming Titanic.

"I thought 'Isn't that insane?' So I just came out in an interview and said: 'Look, I'm doing well at the thing that I love doing and I'm not starving myself'.

"And from then on, it has plagued me."

Kate was furious after GQ recently airbrushed an image of her on the magazine's front cover.

"I'm not six foot tall, for God's sake, I'm five-foot-six," she said.

"I'm probably 130lbs, and I look 100lbs in that thing."

Kate also described how she wept after being branded a bad mother following her split with ex-husband Jim Threapleton.

She said she was devastated by accusations she was not doing enough to bring up her two-year-old daughter Mia.

"It reminded me of being a fat kid at school, doing nothing wrong, being really nice to everybody, and being bullied and being unable to fight back," she said.

"It's really, really hurtful. I cried. A lot."


Okay, I don't BUY the "woe is me" attitude...JESUS, she gave the pictures the GREEN-LIGHT in the first place. It seems like Ms Winslet has been FORCED to comment on this whole photograph kafuffle. There has been a huuuuuge amount of press speculation and she has been practically barraged with criticism...but Kate has spent the best part of her career harping on about her weight. Did she expect people NOT to notice the disappearing pounds and the image overhaul!? She is either a tad naive or plain bloody disillusioned. Why has she felt inclined to mention "accusations" surrounding the care of her daughter Mia!? Hmmmmm, could it be due to the fact that she HASN'T been hanging around her kiddie lately...COME ON, we are all aware that Jim has been left "holding the baby", you only have to open a British newspaper or magazine to realise that the man is a full-time house-husband...and THAT IS FINE, but for crying out loud Kate...please ADMIT that you are NOT a full-time Mother at the moment...THAT isn't a crime. I'm tired of listening to the woman to be perfectly honest...I'm completely fucking pig-sick of the sweet facade and the "issues" and the rest of the crap. STOP COMPLAINING LOVE, life is *sweeeeeeet* and you look great, now shut the fuck up!!!

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THAT picture...

CLICK HERE (http://www.discoverkate.com/gallery/data/media/34/2003-02_gq-uk.jpg)

[electriclite]

Just from looking at the previews of "The Life of David Gale" it is obviously clear that she has lost some weight. As for that picture, I think the right for publications to airbrush is flippantly given nowadays, maybe she didn't expect the the graphic artist to take such dramatic liberties as he did, because DAMN!
I mean did she actually see the finished product before it went to press or did she just give permission for any sort of retouches that magazine chose to or not to do in advance?


I think if you watch closely, in Hollywood whenever anyone takes a firm stand about anything, be it their weight or their love life, they will most likely be hounded by it till the end of their days, or their career, whichever comes first.

Maybe she thought of herself as the patron saintly of the plus sized woman. Just remember though, if you're going to be a saint, be prepareed to be martyred.

As for the mother thing, I think its a fair assumption that when a woman is working in Hollywood she isn't going to be June Cleaver when it comes to raising kids, so she needs to refrain from trying to sell us an alternate form of reality under those circumstances.

[A.J. Hakari]

Despite the bitchy attitude I've been hearing she has, I think Kate looks great with and without the extra weight. At least she admits that she started this tiny controversy and wants it put to rest.

[Lady Summerisle]

That BAZAAR cover looks awful!

It reminds me of passing underdeveloped women on billboards.
If she has lost weight, let it be just enough to flatter her, not turn her into a goddamn stick.

Her figure in QUILLS was nice.

And she is admirable for tackling this herself, not using a publicist. Any weight issue will be harped upon by Hollywood journalists because weight matters a lot to Hollywood.
Kate's honesty may not be completely flattering personality wise, but that is how people are sometimes, not perfect and sometimes bitchy and full of complaints.
Not all compaints are without purpose.

[Bullet Tooth Tony]

Originally posted by BadCoverVersion
STOP COMPLAINING LOVE, life is *sweeeeeeet* and you look great, now shut the fuck up!!!

Well said. Looks like she's going all Zeta Jones on us.

[BadCoverVersion]

You said it Bullet Tooth...

Jesus, where have the down-to-earth British lady's buggered off to!?

I for one, didn't foresee both Zeta-Jones and Winslet transforming into Hollywood Diva's overnight!!!

[Bullet Tooth Tony]

Originally posted by BadCoverVersion
You said it Bullet Tooth...

Jesus, where have the down-to-earth British lady's buggered off to!?

I for one, didn't foresee both Zeta-Jones and Winslet transforming into Hollywood Diva's overnight!!!

Yeah, especially Kate Winslet. Ever since she shacked up with Mendes she's changed from sweet English rose to rotten Colombian drug seed (or something thats worse than a rose :))

Blame the men in their lives.

[Succubus]

Ah, Kate Winslet. The one actress that can make me punch the air with patriotic pride with her acting but then can make me shake my head in shame at what often comes out of her mouth.

When she initially burst onto the metaphorical scene, I felt genuinely sorry for her at the scrutiny of her body. It didn't seem to matter to the media that the poor girl was the better half of the biggest movie of all time, or that even before she was out of her teens she was churning out award-worthy performances before her years- she was made something of a freak, the actress who was perhaps a size 12 (below average in the UK, I hasten to add) instead of a 6, the girl that stripped naked and didn't reveal a full ribcage. In some cases she was applauded, but in most she was ridiculed.

But then, in interview after interview, the issue of her weight became less and less of a reluctant offering from Winslet. She had become more established as an actress- she had her big break, had travelled the indie route, and was as much an actress as a star.

It can't be easy being different in the harsh glare of Hollywood- compare Renee Zellweger and Winslet for image. I've always thought that Zellweger was slightly scrawny looking, whereas Winslet was a far healthier representation of the female form. So the pendulum does swing both ways- if you're curvaceous, you're fat, if you're slim built, you're anorexic.

I do admire Winslet for making some sort of stand and taking some of the blame. I do believe that she is well meaning, but all too often she sounds slightly pretentious and a bit of a do gooder, when in actual fact she probably is as mistake-riddled and imperfect as the rest of us. Bizarre combination- the girl who tried to be so impossibly down to Earth often winds up to be slightly up a certain orifice.

Good call on Mendes. I admire him, and he probably had very little intention on the change of Winslet's image, but a high profile stage director who probably has a few glitzy parties to attend, partnered with an A list actress, cannot really be seen with Little Miss English Rose on his arm, no matter how much she loves her countrywear. Or whatever it is. Once a profile- and a persona- is formed, you find that people object if you try to change it.

Perhaps Winslet's sudden 'glamourisation' didn't go down well with her die-hard fans. But what would the reaction be if she changed her current, far more polished image and persona?

They say that press intrusion is part of the price of fame, as well as criticism and scrunity, and no matter how hard Kate Winslet tries to be brave and nonchalant, her own personal speaking out offers a far clearer insight.

[James Logan]

Originally posted by BadCoverVersion
STOP COMPLAINING LOVE, life is *sweeeeeeet* and you look great, now shut the fuck up!!!

Smartest comment I've heard in a while. Some chicks I know could use hearing that too from time to time.