14 DAY TRIAL // Kate Winslet has always been open about her weight, and especially about her determination not to do anything that might affect her health to meet the Hollywood standard of female beauty. Yet, she still had her fat moments, more specifically when she was in school and she was bullied for being chubbier than the other girls, as the actress herself reveals for the latest issue of Marie Claire magazine.
Known both for her acting but also for her good looks - just recently, she was named by a British magazine the most exquisite natural beauty in showbiz -, Kate says things were entirely different when she was in school. Back then, they called her Blubber and she was once even locked in the art cupboard by bullies. “I was bullied for being chubby. Where are they now!” the actress tells the mag.
However, the bullying did affect her life, as well into her teens, she still believed that “no one will ever fancy [her],” as the actress says. Of course, that is not to say that Kate now sees herself as some sort of “great beauty,” it’s just that she has learned to love the way her body looks, without asking too much from herself. The same goes for growing old for the Oscar-winning actress, who reveals for the mag that age shouldn’t be an issue for any woman as long as she’s happy.
“I don’t mind the way I’m ageing... I think I look my age, and that’s fine. I don’t think I look younger than 33 and I don’t think I look particularly older than 33. I think I’m sort of holding it together.” Winslet tells Marie Claire. However, those fans who might be tempted to believe she always looks as gorgeous as she does on magazine covers have another thing coming their way, as the actress is adamant to stress that beauty mags rarely, if ever, represent a true reflection of reality.
“I do think it’s important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don’t really look like that. In films I might look glamorous, but I’ve been in hair and make-up for two hours; someone’s been lighting a scene for three hours. […] In ‘The Reader,’ for example, even I was like, ‘Damn, I look good.’ And that was the lighting – it was a bit of body make-up. I don’t believe in pretending those things don’t go on.” Kate Winslet explains.