Kate Winslet says people would ask her agent about her weight when she was a younger actress - Yahoo Life

Kate Winslet was called "blubber" and told to settee for "fat girl" roles arsenic a young miss with dreams of acting. And though films similar Titanic secured her presumption arsenic a starring lady, the English histrion tells the Sunday Times that her assemblage couldn't flight scrutiny.

"When I was younger my cause would get calls saying, ‘How’s her weight?’" shares the Oscar winner, who says present that "as a middle-aged pistillate I attraction astir being that histrion who moves their look and has a assemblage that jiggles." At 47, she feels that the movie manufacture has progressed implicit the years successful presumption of not fixating arsenic overmuch connected weight. It's a alteration Winslet calls "heartwarming."

But arsenic the parent of a 22-year-old daughter, histrion Mia Threapleton — with whom she stars successful the caller British TV drama I Am Ruth — Winslet feels anxious astir the unit societal media and net civilization puts connected young people. While the Sense and Sensibility star was nary alien to tabloid involvement successful her backstage life, she didn't travel of property successful the epoch of TMZ oregon Deux Moi.

“It was hard capable having the flipping News of the World on my doorstep, but that doesn’t adjacent chopped it now,” she says, referencing the British tabloid. “That operation astir ‘today’s quality being tomorrow’s food and spot paper’ doesn’t exist. The happening you did erstwhile you were drunk oregon foolish? It whitethorn travel backmost to haunt you. Needing to beryllium connected one’s defender for young actors is conscionable a antithetic thing. It indispensable beryllium extraordinarily hard.”

I Am Ruth, in which Winslet and Threapleton play parent and daughter, explores however that unit tin person toxic consequences for teens and their self-image.

"Mia and I perfectly had successful existent beingness immoderate of those conversations in I Am Ruth,” says the actress, who shares Mia with archetypal hubby Jim Threapleton. “But truthful person astir of the mothers that I cognize with their teenagers. Friends person gone done white-knuckle surviving hellhole and these days, arsenic an actor, I endeavor to find roles that shed airy connected topics that are hard to speech about. This was one.”

The parent of 3 tin subordinate to the strain parents are nether arsenic they effort to support their children's intelligence health. She's mindful that, due to the fact that of her fame, she'll beryllium "accused of lecturing" others, noting that "I don’t person a f***ing reply that is amended oregon worse oregon antithetic than anyone else’s."

"Just due to the fact that I americium high-profile, it doesn’t mean I’m not affected," Winslet says. "I don’t person a protective unit field. I mustn’t speech specifics, due to the fact that I indispensable beryllium cautious with Mia’s privacy, but young adults are going done thing incredibly hard. I don’t person a magic wand, but arsenic a genitor you effort to bash the close thing.

"There are times successful your child’s beingness erstwhile thing you tin bash oregon accidental is right," she continues. "You conscionable privation them to beryllium happy, but the pressures of the satellite are enormous. There’s thing you tin bash to support them safe.”

But the Mare of Easttown prima doesn't wholly despair implicit Gen Z.

"My daughter’s procreation person an quality to talk for themselves,” she notes. “They person already learnt that they volition beryllium heard. Obviously not successful each situation, but they cognize however to usage their dependable — particularly young women. That’s striking to me. When I was younger you spoke erstwhile spoken to. That is not the lawsuit now. Young women are stronger. And they’re prouder of their bodies.”

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