The Academy Award-winning actress Kate Winslet, famous for both the diversity of the roles she has played, and her incandescent beauty, has spent a great part of her career fighting for body acceptance in an industry that is, to put it in simple words, image-centric. Recently, Winslet discussed her direct involvement in the shooting of her recent biopic and so divulged a personal incident in which she was asked to hide her body shape.
In the course of the press tour for the biopic Lee, wherein Kate Winslet plays the role of Lee Miller – the famous World War II photographer, she expressed how she had to suppress her desire to look the prettiest in every shot. With regards to her embracing all the attributes of acting, she said in a shocking surety, there was said to hide the belly rolls for the scenes. Instead of bending to these undermining ways of beauty standards that hardly any woman can scale, Winslet was not backing down. Addressing the constraint of numerous women to be pretty, especially in the circles of showbiz, she commented “life is too short to be worrying about that sort of thing.”
The 48-year-old actress has always been very critical about body image throughout her career, standing firm that she will not fit into the norms set by the Hollywood industry. Kate was annoyed about how women are evaluated over their appearance irrespective of how talented or accomplished they are. “The focus is so funny. We can all get down on really unimportant things, it is quite incredible. The point of this is, stop being so critical, particularly women. Appreciate your own body as it is,” Winslet said.
Her position is not only of an individual nature. Winslet’s fans have included the numerous fan clubs who appreciate her for her pro body image and anti enchanting depictions of standard beauty by the media. The actress has long held the view that it should be a priority to appreciate Ngai skills as well as the acceptability of the inner soldier.
Armed with a refreshing viewpoint, Kate Winslet still proves to be a source of admiration as she shows conflicting sand true beauty which comes from within that compliments the breaking of inhibitions of bring one’s body accept all its flaws.
