Kate Winslet faces “critical and cruel” tabloids
Because she had a little more shape than the other actresses, Kate was for a long time the victim of “body shaming” from the media and she suffered constant media harassment. And two decades later, and with a lot of hindsight, the actress returned to the Guardian on this delicate and traumatic period.
“Yes, when I was in my twenties, people talked a lot about my weight. People called me to personally comment on my physique. And I was labeled as a cheeky and frank person. No, I was just defending myself,” recalled Kate, now 45. Imagine that the late Joan Rivers (who was renowned for her unfiltered and scathing comments), had dared to say about her: “If she had lost just a few kilos, the Titanic would never have sunk”.
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And rereading articles written about her when she was barely out of adolescence, “it’s almost laughable to see how shocking, critical and cruel the tabloid journalists were towards me , she lamented. I was still figuring out who the hell I was! They made comments about my height, they tried to guess my weight, they talked about the diet I was supposedly following. It was horrible and so upsetting to read. »
Enough to undermine the confidence of the very young Kate, who hesitated to try her luck in Hollywood? Yes. “I was thinking, ‘My God, if they say that about me in England, what will happen when I get there?’ I felt very alone. For the simple reason that nothing can really prepare you for… this. And then of course, I had Mia (his daughter, editor’s note) at 25 years old. And so it all kind of…evaporated.”
