The actress, criticized for her resounding curves, achieves a new style of her own
The transformation of Kate Winslet is one of the most talked about issues in the crowds of Venice, those in which not only movies and projects are discussed. The 35-year-old actress appears splendid at every event she shows up for. Kate, who has always declared herself an enemy of artificial beauty, Botox and surgery, now looks more beautiful than ever. What is her secret?
Almost three decades have passed since the filming of Titanic, a film that launched her to fame and placed her on red carpets and on the covers of half the world. At the time, her resounding curves and her style were criticized, but she didn't back down. On more than one occasion she has declared that she does not care what they think about her silhouette. "Most women sooner or later go through a phase of bewilderment or insecurity about their figure. We all like to be beautiful. I had a hard time with my weight. As a teenager I couldn't control it. I was constantly gaining and losing weight, although I didn't I ate too much. The press was primed on me. They were petty. The good thing is that they don't hurt me anymore. I don't care what they can say about my silhouette, "he explained in 2004 about his figure.
What is certain is that, although sometimes her thinness may have seemed excessive, Winslet is now in one of her best moments. Because of her beauty, she is the image of the Lancôme firm. She these days she has appeared in Venice with models that highlight her figure. She appeared on two red carpets with two spectacular dresses: a brown one signed by Victoria Beckham -the designer herself announced it on her Twitter account- for the night pass of A Wild God and another in white by Stella McCartney in the presentation of the miniseries Mildred Pierce. Both outfits were completed with sky-high heels and understated jewelry.
But the winner of an Oscar for The reader has fought hard for her image of her as a real woman to be taken into account. At that time, the interpreter asked Grazia, an Italian publication, to remove some of her photos that had been manipulated with computer programs. In fact, in 2007 she won a lawsuit against GQ magazine, which published that she had followed an intense diet to lose weight that she denied. She, however, has explained that she is a faithful follower of the Pilates method, and that she only needs 20 minutes a day to get in shape. Perhaps thanks to that she appeared stupendous, and barely covered with a trench coat, photographed by Steven Meisel on the cover of Vanity Fair.
Kate maintains that she does not want to be used as a model of thinness and anorexia, and that her image is fundamental to her work as an actress. "I don't want to freeze the expression on my face," she recently told the Daily Telegraph. Thus, she has recently launched what she has called the British League Against Surgery, and has embarked on the project two other actresses who share her commitment, Rachel Weisz and Emma Thompson. "It goes against my morals," she explained about the possibility of undergoing surgery to get touch-ups, "against the way my parents raised me and against what I consider natural beauty."
