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| | Kate Winslet is not 'the most irritating actress in the world' | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Back in May, Kate Winslet sued The Daily Mail for libel, over a piece they ran back during the awards season. The article was by a Mail reporter/columnist named Liz Jones, and it was called ?Should Kate Winslet Win an Oscar for the World?s Most Irritating Actress?? Jones blasted Kate for discussing her diet and workout regime in the press, and Jones claimed Winslet ?lied? about only doing Pilates and nothing else. Jones wrote that Winslet ?has become, in my opinion, as drippy and as impossibly vain as the rest of them. She caught a nasty dose of Hollywooditis. It happens to the best of them, of course it does. It is the duplicitousness that enrages me and most other women I have spoken to.? When Winslet sued, she asked for a settlement in the neighborhood of $200,000.
Winslet was vindicated in the courts - sort of. She won the lawsuit, and she was awarded $40,000. Winslet released a statement on the legal victory: ?I am delighted that the Mail have apologized for making false allegations about me. I was particularly upset to be accused of lying about my exercise regime, and felt that I had a responsibility to request an apology in order to demonstrate my commitment to the views that I have always expressed about body issues, including diet and exercise.? Here?s more:
Lawyers for Kate Winslet say the actress has accepted 25,000 pounds
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| | Kate Winslet To Star In Mildred Pierce | | Added 14 years ago | Source: Feed Me Gossip |
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After having a great run in film through 2008, Kate Winslet is turning her eyes to television. The actress has agreed to star in Mildred Pierce, a miniseries adaptation based on James M. Cain’s novel. Directed by Todd Haynes off a script (or two) he wrote, Mildred Pierce will place Winslet in the title role, which follows a bored housewife who gets into the restaurant business, an enterprise that leads to back-stabbing, romance and murder.Though the miniseries does not have a network just yet, HBO is the obvious lead contender.
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Enjoying a family getaway, Kate Winslet was spotted arriving to Italy with husband Sam Mendes, daughter Mia Honey Threapleton and son Joe Alfie Mendes on Monday (July 20).
The “Revolutionary Road” beauty tried to stay under the radar - dressing in a casual ensemble complete with Converse sneakers.
Meanwhile, the 33-year-old spoke with Harper’s Bazaar, saying that her recent Oscar win has impacted her behavior.
“It’s very hard to feel like yourself because you’re not; you’re on show. In the old days I’d just wing it, but now you need to give people what they want, which is someone looking composed, fresh and put together.”
Winslet adds, “Our knickers will still go up our a** at the most inappropriate moment. And we’ll still want to flick them out, but you can’t, because someone is going to catch you.’”
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| | Kate Winslet's boobs will only star in films a little while longer | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Kate Winslet is the cover girl for the August issue of Harper?s Bazaar, and she?s still taking about how she can?t take a role without dropping her drawers. What?s weird about the interview is that Kate comes across as a little annoyed at certain points, but I don?t think she?s being interviewed to promote any movie or anything. It seems the only she?s promoting is her deal with Lancme - she?s the current ?face? of the brand. Kate talks a lot about winning the Oscar and her own fashion sense. It seems Kate feels it?s ?now or never? for the miniskirts. She?s also polishing her Everyday Woman cred by trying to tone down expectations that she?s some sort of glamour puss:
For this year’s Academy Awards, where she won the Oscar for Best Actress, Kate Winslet wore a highly glamorous one-shouldered blue-gray Yves Saint Laurent evening gown. But a little part of her — metaphorically, at least — was in tennis whites. “I wanted to run over to my parents and do one of those Wimbledon moments when the person jumps from the court and leaps over the audience and the bleachers,” she says, her face creasing into a smile. “I did have the urge to do that.”
Returning to New York the next day, Kate discovered that you do, in fact, have to put your Oscar through the X-ray machine at the airport. “They say, ‘Is that it, in the bag?’ and I was like, ‘Yep!’” Kate drank champagne on the flight and took pictures while her golden boy was passed around the flight crew.
Even though she returned the champion, Kate notes of the endless awards season, “It’s very hard to feel like yourself because you’re not; you’re on show. In the old days, I’d just wing it, but now you need to give people what they want, which is someone looking composed, fresh, and put together.” But she gleefully defuses the glamour mythology.
“Our knickers will still go up our ass at the most inappropriate moment. And we’ll still want to flick them out, but you can’t, because someone is going to catch you.” So what does one do? “Oh, I run behind pillars and things.”
Kate hasn’t really gone all shy and retiring on the red carpet. After years of wearing long, she’s more recently taken a short cut — sporting, among others, a curve-loving Herv Lger and a racy Balmain number. (She’s still legging it today, perched on the couch in a gold Calypso minidress.) “I danced a lot when I was younger, and I’ve always had decent, shapely legs and thought it’s now or never,” she says. “I mean, when you’re pushing 40, are you really going to wander around in a dress that’s midthigh length? So I thought, Oh, f-ck it, I’m just going to do it.”
And so began the thousandth round of Kate Winslet body speculation. “I’ve heard, ‘Oh, she’s toned and she’s lost weight,’ but I am exactly the same as I’ve always been. The one thing that had to go during awards season was exercise. People would say to me, ‘Oh, come on …’ like I was lying about it!” The topic clearly fatigues her. “Some may find it hard to believe it, but I don’t care about that stuff.”
But Oprah Winfrey does, as she proclaimed gloriously to the world when Kate was on her show promoting The Reader — in which her character, former Nazi guard Hanna Schmitz, is often naked — “God bless your real breasts!” Kate shrugs and says, “I’m used to people openly discussing my t-ts. If people are noticing my boobs in a movie and saying they do what real boobs do, then that’s great.” But, like her legs, the boobs have a shelf life. “I’ll be 34 in October. I can’t keep getting away with it. There was so much of it in The Reader because the story required it, but people have seen enough of my bum and my boobs. I have to put them back.”
Sure, Kate has an Oscar, a lauded husband, and two fetching children (Mia, 8, and Joe, 5), but she’s not Gisele. She’s one of us … ish. “Part of the reason Lancme asked me [to represent the brand] was because I come across as a woman other women can identify with. The media plays such a big role in how women measure themselves against other women, so I can be in a position where I can say beauty comes from within, we’re not all perfect, and the covers of magazines are of course retouched. We do not look like that.” She points to her forehead. “I have wrinkles here, which are very evident, and I will particularly say when I look at movie posters, ‘You guys have airbrushed my forehead. Please can you change it back?’ I’d rather be the woman they’re saying ‘She’s looking older’ about than ‘She’s looking stoned.’”
[From Harper?s Bazaar]
I like that Kate has a real body, and I totally appreciate her honesty and her humility. That being said, I for one am tired of seeing her boobs. I would love to see Kate in a role where she was totally covered throughout the entire movie. I think Kate is a wonderful actress, but unfortunately her boobs and her vadge-wig get all of the attention. I know I?m being picky, but I just think Kate is in that dangerous territory where her nudity becomes her acting crutch. I hope she changes it up for her next roles.
Kate Winslet is shown at the premiere of Away We Go on 6/1/09. Credit: WENN.com
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| | Kate Winslet breaks silence on her vadge wig; now claims to have nanny | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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This is totally gross, but funny. Kate Winslet has opened up about some of the Hollywood magic that went into her now Oscar-winning role in the film The Reader. Specifically, Kate is talking about a very important wig she had to wear? but first, some backstory. The Reader spans about forty years - from when Kate?s character, former Nazi prison guard Hannah, is in her thirties in 1950s West Germany, to the what I think was probably supposed to be the 1990s. So, roughly, Kate had to be aged with make-up for a 40 to year span. The first part of the film is where 30-something Hannah seduces the teenaged Michael, and there are some sexy scenes.
While she promoted the film, Kate got press because of all of the nudity. Honestly, though, I can?t remember a time when I didn?t know what Kate?s breasts looked like. She does so much nudity in so many of her films. Props to her, but I still hope she eventually takes on a good role where she?s not naked in several scenes. The Reader didn?t just have Kate flashing her boobs, though. We also got a couple of glimpses at her vadge. Kate is now telling Allure that, to play a woman in the 1950s, everything had to be?shall we say? appropriate for the time. Basically, no waxing. No landing strips. No Brazilians. This was a problem for Kate because after ?years of waxing, it doesn?t come back quite the way it used to.? So they made her wear a vadge wig. Otherwise known as a ?merkin?. Otherwise known as ?The Winslet?:
?Let me tell you, The Reader was not glamorous for me in terms of body hair maintenance. I had to grow it in, because you can?t have a landing strip in 1950, you know? And then because of years of waxing, it doesn?t come back quite the way it used to. They even made me a merkin because they were so concerned that I might not be able to grow enough. I said, ?Guys, I am going to have to draw the line at a pubic wig. But you can shoot my own snatch up close and personal.??
[From Allure]
Ah, the joys of filmmaking. Can you imagine that production meeting? Who gets chosen to tell the big actress that she needs a full 1950s bush? Stephen Daldry was the director, but I can?t imagine they sent a shy Englishman in there to tell Winslet to put a damn weave on her privates.
In other Winslet news, last week CB reported on Kate?s claim in Hello! Magazine that she didn?t have a chef or a nanny. Her words were, ?It?s very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef? But I don?t want that for my children. When they?re older, if people say to them, ?Did you have a chef?? I want them to be shocked by the question.? Kate is now totally backtracking on that, saying (through her spokesperson) that she does have ?a part-time nanny.? Kate?s spokesperson added, ?Kate has never said that she did not have a nanny at a time when she did have a nanny.? Hmm? because that?s exactly what it sounded like she was saying?
Pictures are stills from The Reader, thanks to AllMoviePhoto.
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| | Kate Winslet on why she doesn't have a chef or a nanny | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Kate Winslet, 33, has a new interview in the latest Hello! Magazine in which she’s promoting her role as the spokesperson for Lancome. She gives some of same kinds of responses we’ve come to expect from her - that she’s happy and content whatever size she’s wearing and that she’s comfortable with the process of aging. There’s not a lot of drama around Winslet and I think that’s why it seems like she’s repeating herself or is somehow boring in interviews. She’s consistent and gracious, and she’s often asked the same kinds of questions about her body image. One thing she said that I found refreshing is that she doesn’t have a cook or a nanny despite having the resources to hire a full staff. I’ve heard her say that she enjoys doing things around the house but this is the first time I can recall hearing her say that she has hardly any help at all.
Kate has daughter Mia, 8, from her first marriage, and son Joe, 5, from her current marriage to director Sam Mendes.
People must think you have a perfect life. Great marriage, two beautiful kids, all these awards, plum roles…
“I don’t have a perfect life. There are things I could implement within my life that would probably make it easier. But I deliberately don’t do it because if I did, I would be living that movie star existence that I really try and resist. I mean, it’s very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I’d love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don’t want that for my children. When they’re older, if people say to them, ‘Did you have a chef?’ I want them to be shocked by the question.”
You seem to be very happy. Is that an advantage of getting older?
“I’m happier about myself than I’ve ever been. I remember being 21, 22 and looking at other women and thinking, ‘Oh, they just look so brilliant. I’m sure I’m never going to look that good.’ I am absolutely amazed that here I am at the age of 33, having had two children, and having had no work done, and I feel really good. Maybe it’s just hormones or something. And age.”
How do you stay in shape?
“I haven’t done any exercise since October. I haven’t done a thing. So who knows how I’m holding it together. Pilates definitely helped a bit. However, when I was doing it consistently, I wasn’t doing it that consistently. So maybe it’s just being busy and age.”
So what are some of the best things about being in your thirties?
“I don’t feel self-conscious any more. I think turning 30, you’re allowed to be less obsessed with how you look. I really like being 33. I don’t think I look younger than I am or older than I am. I think I look my age. Also, while I feel very joined at the hip with my family, I also feel independent. I feel like I can stand on my own two feet.”
[From Hello! Magazine, print edition, June 15, 2009]
I like Winslet and am glad she finally got the recognition she deserved with her Oscar win this year. She just seems like a nice, normal person who is doing her best for her family. If I was in her shoes, though, I would absolutely get some help around the house. There’s no shame in it, but she feels strongly that her children should be raised without a staff and that’s admirable. I get the impression that even if Winslet had a house full of helpers her kids would still grow up to be grounded, kind people, though. She just seems like that kind of mom.
Kate Winslet is shown out with Mia and Joe in NY on 5/26/09. Credit: INFphoto.com
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| | Kate Winslet is suing British newspaper for libel | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Kate Winslet has brought the hammer down on another publication for libel. This time, it?s The Daily Mail, specifically a writer who wrote a particularly nasty piece about Winslet?s body called ?Should Kate Winslet Win an Oscar for the World’s Most Irritating Actress?? Charming. This isn?t the first time Winslet has sued or threatened to sue, and as far as I can find, every time a publication pisses her off, an editor either has to apologize or give Winslet money. In 2003, the British edition of GQ had to issue Winslet an apology over the digital enhancement to Kate?s image - they made her look very, very thin, and if memory serves, they even digitally lengthened her legs.
In March 2007, Winslet won a libel lawsuit against the British magazine Grazia, who claimed that she was seeking outside diet help. At the time, she issued a statement, saying that she was donating the money won to an eating disorder charity: ?Grazia magazine has apologized to me in full, and admitted that their story was incorrect, which gives me tremendous peace of mind. I feel very strongly that ‘curves’ are natural, womanly and real… I shall continue to hope that women are able to believe in themselves for who they are inside, and not feel under such incredible pressure to be unnaturally thin. I am donating the ‘damages’ given to me by Grazia, to an eating disorder charity.”
This time, I?m actually not quite sure if Winslet has a case. The writer, Liz Jones, is very nasty, but I?m not sure if she actually crosses the libel line:
Kate Winslet, role model for women everywhere who don’t fit into Hollywood’s traditional ideal body, is so protective of her status that she’s just mad enough to sue a publication that says she lied about her fitness habits.
The Oscar winner is suing the Daily Mail, a UK tabloid, saying they libeled her in an article called, “Should Kate Winslet Win an Oscar for the World’s Most Irritating Actress?” She’s seeking around $225,000 in damages.
It’s not the irritating part that has her up in arms, leaving her “distressed and embarrassed” and feeling that they had “injured her personal and professional reputation,” however.
“[Winslet] was particularly upset by what she regarded as the very unpleasant and nasty way in which the article was written,” according to her April legal filing.
The tab questioned a quote she gave to Elle, where she said, “I don’t go to the gym because I don’t have time, but I do Pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home.”
The Daily Mail writer, Liz Jones, claims she had succumbed to Hollywood pressure and slimmed down, saying she “has become, in my opinion, as drippy and as impossibly vain as the rest of them.”
“She caught a nasty dose of Hollywooditis. It happens to the best of them, of course it does,” wrote Jones. “It is the duplicitousness that enrages me and most other women I have spoken to.”
Kate doesn’t want the tabloid to reprint their claims, however, they are so far refusing the ban.
[From OK! Magazine]
During the Oscar season, I read a lot of articles about Kate Winslet, especially in the British press. I missed this Daily Mail piece, but I did notice something peculiar about the way the British press in general approached Kate Winslet. Specifically, Kate was damned if she did, damned if she didn?t. When she was honest about her struggles with her weight or body image, she was slammed for being vain or image-obsessed. When she tried to just talk about the work, and leave her personal stuff aside, the journalists tended to put in a few sly references to ?the fat girl is all grown up?, stuff like that. I like that Winslet has the cajones to take on members of the press when she thinks they?ve crossed a line. But there is that old expression - ?Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.?
Kate Winslet is shown on Oscar night. Credit: WENN.com
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| | S.S. Kate Winslet Nude in The Reader | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Yeeeah |
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You’ve probably already seen Kate Winslet stark naked in “The Reader,” but you may not have been wise to the additional naked Kate Winslet hidden in the deleted scenes. That’s where I come into play, baby. And to think, my guidance counselor said I’d never amount to anything. In your fucking face, Mrs. Herschenberger!
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| | Kate Winslet: 'I was bullied for being chubby' | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Kate Winslet has given her first post-Oscar magazine interview to Marie Claire-UK, and she?s still trying to convince us that she?s one of us. Not with that lovely skin, Winslet. Kate says that she was bullied for being chubby when she was a kid, and that those weight/body image issues have carried into her adult life. Kate doesn?t see her herself as any kid of great, sexy beauty.
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| | Kate Winslet named 'Ultimate Natural Beauty?, beats Audrey Hepburn | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Another week, another beauty poll. This one is bit more interesting, though. Kate Winslet has been named ?The Ultimate Natural Beauty?, beating out Audrey Hepburn. Considering Audrey?s inclusion on the list, I can only guess that natural beauties of all time were being judged. In fact, only Britons were polled, and they were looking for ?a classic English rose complexion without needing lots of make-up to look stunning?. Audrey was absolutely gorgeous, but she wasn?t an English rose.
Kate Winslet is obviously one of the most naturally beautiful women in the world today, if not ever. So I?m happy that she ?won? the title. But the other women on the list denigrate Kate?s prize. Kelly Brook? Cheryl Cole? Really? They?re lovely women, but if it?s a judgment of naturally beautiful women of all time, where?s Grace Kelly? Where?s Katherine Hepburn? Where?s Elizabeth Taylor? Obviously, the list isn?t just for British women, or they wouldn?t have put Angelina Jolie and Audrey on the list.
Brit Oscar winner Kate Winslet has beaten movie legend Audrey Hepburn to the title of Ultimate Natural Beauty.
The Reader actress was hailed for having ?a classic English rose complexion without needing lots of make-up to look stunning?, in a survey of 3,000 men and women.
Kate, 33, pipped Breakfast At Tiffany?s star Hepburn. Kelly Brook was third, followed by Cheryl Cole, Angelina Jolie and Scarlett Johansson.
[From The Sun]
So who would have made my Natural Beauty/English Rose list? What about the most famous English rose of them all, Princess Diana? Or Vivien Leigh? People always forget just how beautiful Vivien Leigh was, but she was definitely one of the most stunning English rose-types to ever come out of England.
Why aren?t there lists like this for men? Which men are the loveliest, most natural English roses of them all? Clive Owen can?t make the list. Even though I think he?s naturally gorgeous, it?s more in a ?tie me up please? sort of way rather than a ?look at his skin? sort of way. You know who was just beautiful when he was young? Peter O?Toole. He was prettier than most women. It would make my life if one day, Peter O?Toole won one of these fake ?Most Beautiful? contests.
Here?s Kate Winslet at Vanity Fair?s Academy Awards party in February. Images thanks to WENN.com .
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