Celebrating curves

Winslet on outward appearances: “Life is too short”

Kate Winslet thinks life is too short to worry too much about appearances.

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Kate Winslet (48) thinks women should celebrate when they have a feminine figure and perhaps a few extra rolls. "Life is too short, you know? I don't want to look back and say, 'Why did you worry about that?" said Winslet in a BBC interview. 

She no longer cares about it and will simply live her life. "I'm going to enjoy it. Move on. You have one shot. Make the most of it."

Winslet doesn't want to hide her belly rolls
In her new film "The Photographer", she plays Lee Miller (1907-1977), who was a war correspondent for "Vogue" at the front during the Second World War. Her photos became contemporary documents, including pictures of the liberation of concentration camps.

Winslet told Harper's Bazaar magazine that a crew member had advised her to sit a little more upright in a bikini scene. "So you can't see my belly rolls? Not on your life," Winslet was quoted as saying. That was the intention. Winslet also wanted to do justice to her figure.

Women with different labels than men
To this day, women are given labels that don't even exist for men, Winslet told the BBC. "That's absolutely bizarre to me."

It was her job to be like Lee. Her figure didn't lift weights or do Pilates, but ate cheese and bread and drank wine. "So of course her body was soft. But I think maybe we're so unaccustomed to seeing and enjoying that." The first reaction, oddly enough, was to criticize it or comment on it in any way.